Channel 5 Orders Soccer Highlights Show

LONDON: The U.K.’s Channel 5 has signed a three-year contract with Sunset+Vine for a Football League highlights show, due out this August.

The 46×90-minute series will air Saturdays throughout the season. It will feature footage, including every single goal, from matches in all three divisions of the Sky Bet Football League. Additionally, Sunset+Vine will produce three one-hour shows covering each round of the end of season playoffs across all three divisions in the Football League, plus eight one-hour highlights shows covering the action from each round of the Capital One Cup.

Paul Dunthorne, Channel 5’s COO, said: “Sunset+Vine has engaged sports fans for Channel 5 with its innovative, high-quality coverage of Test Cricket, and we’re excited by their proposed approach to bringing football back to the channel. Mark has been instrumental in some of the very best sports broadcasting on British TV; working in partnership with Sunset+Vine, we’re confident our Football League show could not be in better hands.”

Jeff Foulser, Sunset+Vine’s Chairman, commented: “We are delighted to have been entrusted by Channel 5 to tackle this hugely exciting opportunity, and we want to create a show that connects footballers, fans and viewers together in the way that only football can. A program that gets to the heart and soul of our national game.”