The Championship (TV series)
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The Championship is a replacement football programme for The Premiership which is shown on Sundays on ITV1. The rights to showing Premier League highlights was lost by ITV in 2004, and they have since showed Football League Championship highlights as a replacement. The theme music, (U2's Beautiful Day), was kept.
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[edit] The beginning
At first, only matches from the Football League Championship were shown, and in the first show, the first match shown was a match between Coventry City FC and Sunderland AFC which Coventry won 2-0. Peter Brackley commentated.
But as of the 2005-2006 season, the programme started covering action from Football League One and Football League Two as well, showing all the goals. On some half-hour editions no action from either division has been broadcast.
[edit] The Team
[edit] Presenter
- Matt Smith has been the presenter from the start and has been ever present for every edition apart from one when Angus Scott covered.
[edit] Pundits
- The pundits (who report too) are Robbie Earle, Andy Townsend and Ally McCoist. They give their analysis on some games but they usually report in depth on a game in the Football League.
[edit] Reporters
- The main reporters are Gabriel Clarke and Dave Beckett. However there have been many more reporters such as Richard Henwood, Mike Hall, Mick Conway and Gary Bloom. Commentators Tony Jones and Trevor Harris have done some reports.
[edit] Commentators
- The main commentators are Peter Drury, Jon Champion and Clive Tyldesley. Phil Duffell has done two games based at Cardiff City, one at Swansea and one at Coventry, Tony Jones has done commentary and reports. Angus Scott was commentator for three games. Bob Symonds has been doing commentaries in Wales and Donovan Blake commentated at Norwich.
