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''Football League Tonight'' was a football highlights programme on Channel 5 in the United Kingdom. The show covered the
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and its cup competitions; the
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and the
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. It was replaced for the 2018–19 season by ''
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''. The show was sponsored by
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(also sponsors of the Football League),
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and Evans Halshaw.


Background

Channel 5 regularly covered football from its launch in 1997, including the
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,
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, the
UEFA Europa League The UEFA Europa League (abbreviated as UEL, or sometimes, UEFA EL), formerly the UEFA Cup, is an annual football club competition organised since 1971 by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) for eligible European football clubs. It ...
and international football, but Football on 5 had been off air for three years after losing the rights to the Europa League. In May 2015 Channel 5 won the rights to broadcast highlights for the Football League and the Football League Cup from the 2015–16 in a three-year deal. The contract succeeded the
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's six-year coverage of the league with ''
The Football League Show ''The Football League Show'' is a BBC One football television show, primarily hosted by Manish Bhasin. It features match highlights from the Championship, League One and League Two. It began on 8 August 2009, at 11:45 pm and immediately f ...
'' and gave Channel 5 their first foray into English domestic league football. The highlights show was agreed to be broadcast at 9 pm, around an hour and a half before the typical ''
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'' slot; previously the BBC had shown ''The Football League Show'' after ''Match of the Day''.


Format

Initially, the show was named ''Football League Tonight'' and its format was largely similar to its BBC predecessor, ''The Football League Show''. However, early episodes featured a studio audience and match highlights from one division were not shown together. The live audience was scrapped midway through the first season and the show soon reverted to showing highlights from the Championship, followed by League One and finishing with League Two. The title was later changed to "Football on 5".
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highlights were originally shown under the name ''Capital One Cup Tonight'', taking the name of the title sponsor of the competition. For 2016–17, the programme followed suit of its counterpart, becoming ''Football on 5: The EFL Cup''.


Presenters and pundits

For the 2015–16 season, George Riley and
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from
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were chosen to be the presenters of the show. Cates had also worked on football coverage for
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and Talksport, whilst Riley has worked for BBC TV and radio on coverage of rugby league, football, darts and snooker. Both hosted coverage of the Football League, with Cates presenting League Cup highlights alone.
Lynsey Hipgrave Lynsey Hipgrave (née Horn; born 6 September 1979) is an English television, radio presenter and journalist, currently working for BT Sport. Broadcasting career Radio Hipgrave's initial break came on Manchester radio station Galaxy 102 where she p ...
from
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's ''Danny Baker Show'' and
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replaced Cates the following season. A number of commentators were used for the programme, the main one being Paul Walker, who produces commentary for the Pitch International World Feed, who also worked for the BBC on ''The Football League Show''. Other commentators included
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, Martin Fisher and John Roder. Channel 5 also used
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commentators for their match highlight coverage such as Bill Leslie,
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and Gary Weaver. Match reporters included Dave Beckett,
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, Richard Henwood, Nick Halling, Dan Mason,
Dan O'Hagan Daniel O'Hagan is a freelance football commentator and TV presenter as well as covering the UEFA Champions League for SBS in Australia and BT Sport in England. Formerly he was the voice of the world feed for the French Football League. He is best ...
, Tom Skippings, Chris Ford and Matt Williams. The show had a mixture of former players and managers as pundits;
Adam Virgo Adam John Virgo (born 25 January 1983) is a former professional footballer, who now works as a pundit and commentator. Playing career Early career From the age of seven Virgo played for the St. Aubyns Preparatory School football team. At 13 h ...
was the most frequent pundit having appeared on both Cup and League highlights shows. Other pundits that appeared on the show were Michael Gray,
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,
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,
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, Jamie Cureton,
Clinton Morrison Clinton Hubert Morrison (''né'' Chambers; born 14 May 1979) is a former professional footballer who played as a forward. Since his retirement from playing he works as a pundit. Morrison began his career at local side Crystal Palace in 1998, f ...
,
Chris Iwelumo Christopher Robert Iwelumo (; born 1 August 1978) is a Scottish former professional footballer, who played as a striker. Iwelumo started his career with St Mirren before moving to Danish club Aarhus Fremad for two years. A move to Stoke City ...
and
Karl Robinson Karl Robinson (born 13 September 1980) is an English professional football manager and former player who is the manager of club Oxford United. Playing career Robinson was born in Rainhill, Merseyside. He played for Caernarfon Town, Bamber Bri ...
. On 22 July 2017, it was reported that break clauses had been activated in Riley and Hipgrave's contracts and they would be replaced by
Colin Murray Colin Murray (born Luke Wright on 10 March 1977) is a Northern Irish radio and television presenter. In 2010, he became host of BBC Television's ''Match of the Day 2'' on BBC Two, while still anchoring shows on BBC Radio 5 Live, including '' 5 ...
for the 2017–18 season.


Reception

Channel 5 reportedly failed to bring in enough viewers, and therefore decided not to renew the contract with the EFL. Some had been critical of the broadcaster's coverage of the EFL.


References


External links

*{{IMDb title, id=4902194, title=Football League Tonight Channel 5 (British TV channel) original programming English Football League on television 2015 British television series debuts Football mass media in the United Kingdom 2010s British sports television series English-language television shows