Channel 5 host Andrew Callaghan has gained attention for landing bonkers interviews with the likes of Shia LaBeouf and Clavicular that went viral. Then there’s the upcoming Hunter Biden-Nick Fuentes pairing we told you about last week that is poised to do similarly after it drops July 23.
Still, the mainstream media has no appetite for Callaghan’s gonzo brand of content. And that ice-out has prompted the self-described alt-journalist to launch indie streaming platform C5.NOW as a home for documentaries “too hot” to touch by either the center left or right.
“Billionaires like Larry Ellison are moving to take over our entire online infrastructure and shape the algorithms that control public discourse,” Callaghan tells Page Six Hollywood. “Hollywood also only buys washed-up documentaries about serial killers, celebrities and pop stars. We’re putting our money where our mouth is and creating C5.NOW to combat this problem.”
Callaghan says C5.NOW, which launched Monday, will provide a platform for outsider documentarians and independent filmmakers outside of Hollywood.
The move comes on the heels of Callaghan raising more than $1.6 million dollars on GoFundMe in lightning speed to fight a just-filed defamation lawsuit filed by a subject featured in his doc “Dear Kelly.” (The GoFundMe goal was $800,000.)
It’s hard to pin down what exactly the controversial influencer’s politics are other than to be a chaos merchant who voted for Jill Stein for president in 2024 (but later said he regretted it). But there appears to be an audience for documentaries that skewer the entrenched players on both the left and the right. The desert-dwelling contrarian created the YouTube channel All Gas No Brakes, which gained over 1.5 million subscribers and 90 million views. His Channel 5, which will air the Biden-Fuentes interview, has 3.58 million subscribers.
In his Monday video announcement for C5.NOW, Callaghan dubbed Hollywood “worse than the social media platforms themselves in terms of censorship” and a “sickening, nepotistic, gatekept world of godless narcissists.”
He also claims the big streamers pay documentarians little money for the same, narrow subjects.
C5.NOW’s opening slate includes Hayley Garrigus’ “Starcash,” which revolves around a group of people who rely on astrology to buy and sell stocks and Theo Anthony’s “Rat Film,” which looks at how Baltimore’s rodent infestation symbolizes “a much bigger story about segregation, inequality and the ways a city decides which neighborhoods are allowed to fall apart.”
Neither sounds that crazy on paper.
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