Exclusive: Peacock has picked up sports documentary Mission to Burnley. Check out a trailer below.
Sky’s series follows the fortunes of Burnley F.C. across the course of a season, as the club bid to secure promotion from the second tier of English football back to the world-famous Premier League under manager Vincent Kompany. Founded in 1882, Burnley is one of the oldest professional football clubs in the UK and is located in the north of England in a town which can claim to be one of the smallest to have ever hosted a club in the game’s top tier.
Having aired on Sky earlier this year, the doc will launch on Peacock later this month, and Banijay Rights negotiated the Peacock deal. UK sports docs have been growing in popularity with U.S. audiences, with Disney+’s Welcome to Wrexham about Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney’s Welsh...
Sky’s series follows the fortunes of Burnley F.C. across the course of a season, as the club bid to secure promotion from the second tier of English football back to the world-famous Premier League under manager Vincent Kompany. Founded in 1882, Burnley is one of the oldest professional football clubs in the UK and is located in the north of England in a town which can claim to be one of the smallest to have ever hosted a club in the game’s top tier.
Having aired on Sky earlier this year, the doc will launch on Peacock later this month, and Banijay Rights negotiated the Peacock deal. UK sports docs have been growing in popularity with U.S. audiences, with Disney+’s Welcome to Wrexham about Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney’s Welsh...
- 12/7/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Embankment Films also reveals a raft of upcoming feature documentaries as part of a fresh push into factual.
Embankment Films has revealed the top-line cast of feelgood feature The Miracle Club and a key pre-sale, and boarded a raft of documentaries as part of a major push into factual.
Downton Abbey star Maggie Smith will be joined by fellow Oscar-winner Kathy Bates and Ozark star Laura Linney in the story of working-class women from Dublin who embark on a pilgrimage to Lourdes.
Directed by Thaddeus O’Sullivan (Ordinary Decent Criminal), the film is set to begin shooting in Ireland in April...
Embankment Films has revealed the top-line cast of feelgood feature The Miracle Club and a key pre-sale, and boarded a raft of documentaries as part of a major push into factual.
Downton Abbey star Maggie Smith will be joined by fellow Oscar-winner Kathy Bates and Ozark star Laura Linney in the story of working-class women from Dublin who embark on a pilgrimage to Lourdes.
Directed by Thaddeus O’Sullivan (Ordinary Decent Criminal), the film is set to begin shooting in Ireland in April...
- 6/17/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
Mat Hodgson's new film about the takeover of Qpr is dynamite – a rare chance to witness the sparks that fly when business, football and machismo meet
It feels wholly appropriate to be talking to Mat Hodgson the day after Queens Park Rangers sacked their manager, Neil Warnock. For his new fly-on-the-wall documentary, The Four Year Plan, features more sackings of Queens Park Rangers managers than any film ever made.
The Four Year Plan was born when Hodgson approached the new owners of Qpr, F1 magnates Flavio Briatore and Bernie Ecclestone, after they took over the west London club in November 2007. He pitched a film about their attempts to turn around the struggling, debt-ridden club. "They must have believed in themselves," Hodgson says, "to be up for the notion of documenting this journey."
The original intention was to film for just one year, but the owners' statement of a "four-year...
It feels wholly appropriate to be talking to Mat Hodgson the day after Queens Park Rangers sacked their manager, Neil Warnock. For his new fly-on-the-wall documentary, The Four Year Plan, features more sackings of Queens Park Rangers managers than any film ever made.
The Four Year Plan was born when Hodgson approached the new owners of Qpr, F1 magnates Flavio Briatore and Bernie Ecclestone, after they took over the west London club in November 2007. He pitched a film about their attempts to turn around the struggling, debt-ridden club. "They must have believed in themselves," Hodgson says, "to be up for the notion of documenting this journey."
The original intention was to film for just one year, but the owners' statement of a "four-year...
- 1/13/2012
- by Michael Hann
- The Guardian - Film News
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