EXCLUSIVE: Peacock has picked up sports documentary Mission to Burnley. Check out a trailer below.
Sky‘s upcoming 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.
The doc will launch on both Sky and 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 soccer club buy proving one of the streamer’s biggest unscripted shows. Amazon Prime Video, meanwhile, has been making a wealth of soccer docs about English teams under its All or Nothing strand.
Mission to Burnley is produced by Ad Hoc Films. “It is a golden era for sports documentary, but real privileged access of the type the club have afforded us still remains very rare,” said Ad Hoc co-founder Mat Hodgson. “We are extremely proud of this very special fall and rise story, that encompasses Boardroom to Boot Room and all in between.”
The deal comes as Banijay this month confirmed its acceleration into sport under the banner of new division, Banijay Sports.
