Sunset+vine To Produce Football League Highlights

20 May 2015 | sigadmin

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Channel 5 has appointed Sunset+Vine to produce its forthcoming Football League highlights programme in a three year deal.

As part of the deal, the sports production and media company will produce 46 editions of the 90-minute highlights show per season, along with three additional one-hour shows covering each round of the end of season play-offs and eight for the duration of the League Cup competition.

Earlier this month, the UK broadcaster secured the rights to show primetime highlights of English football’s Championship, League One and League Two divisions from the 2015/16 season through until 2017/18.

Match footage will be filmed, edited and supplied by the Football League’s production partner ITN Productions, which has signed on for the same three-year term as Channel 5 and Sunset+Vine.

In addition, Channel 5 has also hired sports television executive, Mark Sharman, as a consultant to oversee production of the new highlights show on its behalf.

Sharman is a former director of sport at Channel 4 and ITV, as well as having previously worked as deputy managing director of Sky Sports and director of broadcasting at Sky Networks.