Launched in April 2010, World of Sports was a weekly sports show airing on

Dubai One Dubai One (formerly known as Ch33 and then One TV) is a Pan Arab English language entertainment television channel, owned by Dubai Media Incorporated. It was launched on 14 May 1994, and is currently managed by Sarah al Jarman. It airs a mix o ...

and featuring a mixture of local and international sports highlights, studio and telephone interviews with sporting personalities and a variety of sports related features. Series One was hosted by Layne Redman with Tom Urquhart, Mark Pendergast, Noel Miller and Anas Bukhash appearing as regular studio guests. Series two saw a change in host with Tom Urquhart taking the hosting duties and a change in focus from the international sports of Season One to cover more local sporting events. The show was broadcast on

in the

UAE The United Arab Emirates (UAE; ar, اَلْإِمَارَات الْعَرَبِيَة الْمُتَحِدَة ), or simply the Emirates ( ar, الِْإمَارَات ), is a country in Western Asia (The Middle East). It is located at th ...

at Dubai Media Incorporated's Maktoum Studios and could be viewed all over the middle east and Africa. Each episode debuted on Thursday nights at 20:00 UAE time (19:00 KSA) and was thirty minutes in duration.

Presenters

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Filming

The show was filmed at Studio F at DMI's Maktoum studios in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Dubai One original programming 2011 Emirati television series debuts 2010s Emirati television series