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Channel Five have snapped up the rights to show Serie A in the UK.

 

Five snaps up Italian football

 

Italian football is to return to terrestrial television for the first time since 2002 after Channel Five picked up the rights.

 

Five is expected to air Italian football coverage from the start of the 2007-8 season later this year, with output to be made by sports production company Sunset+Vine.

 

Sunset+Vine, a subsidiary of Welsh firm Tinopolis, already produces cricket highlights for Five.

 

"The main deal is for a highlights programme, although Five do have the rights for live matches as well," said Ron Jones, the executive chairman of Tinopolis.

 

Channel 4 first brought Serie A football to UK television in 1992 following the move of Paul Gascoigne to Lazio and screened matches and highlights until 2002, when it dropped coverage.

 

The rights were picked up by British Eurosport midway through 2002, with the channel screening matches until 2005, when Bravo and Setanta Sports took over in a joint deal.

 

Bravo announced it would not be screening any more matches from the end of December last year because of poor ratings.

 

Italian football is best known on UK TV for the Channel 4 Football Italia show, presented by James Richardson.

 

A Saturday morning show, Gazzetta, was voiced by the late Kenneth Wolstenholme and also shown on Channel 4.

 

A Five spokesman declined to comment.

 

Goooooooalllllazzzzzzziiiiioooooooooooo!

 

They'd better bring back James Richardson.

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I am gonna have to buy a free view box for this but I am pretty sure they will just show Juve every week
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More than likely have one of your countrymen.

 

He'd better come back, I miss his puns.

 

"The Juventus coach arrived at Fiorentina's stadium under a hail of missiles from home fans. Mind you, they are not the only team to arrive at away matches with a smashed coach. Nottingham Forest fans are more than used to it!"

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James Richardson is great....very good!! I can keep an eye on the greatness that is Mutu now :)
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Finally some good news when it comes to Serie A. It started to do my head in last season when Bravo suddenly stopped airing it halfway through the season, and rip off Setanta showed all the games instead. But this is great news that Five have picked it up.

 

Channel 4 first brought Serie A football to UK television in 1992 following the move of Paul Gascoigne to Lazio and screened matches and highlights until 2002, when it dropped coverage.[/Quote]

 

Thats actually wrong: Sky Sports showed it before Channel 4 picked it up.

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Did James Richardson actually go away? I thought he presented it when it was on Bravo?

 

Yeah he did present it, Ron Atkinson had a regular slot on it also :lol

 

Does Setanta being Irish not mean that Channel5 can show some of the same matches and what not, or will they be split??

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Yeah the Bravo show was virtually identical to the C4 show minus the wonderful sarcastic Ray Wilkins commentary with Peter Brackley. If we got that back with James Richardson, it would be super and might just make me watch C5.

 

Chances are though they'll get John "how have I not got any better at presenting in 5 years" Barnes to do it, with Tony Dorigo as a commentator.

 

5 are good at ruining football coverage I must say. They make ITV look like Sky.

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I think JR will surely host it and it will be a similar dealy to Bravo with Setanta showing 2-3 games a weekend (maybe only 1 or 2 now they have prem) and then Five maybe showing a game but definitely having a highlights show...hope this could be the return of Gazzetta Football Italia thats the bit I am most excited about
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Yeh but they binned it they even filmed the last few of them in London and not an exotic place like Siena or Milano, it used to be THE thing to watch on Friday nights
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Ah I remember it back in the day, Saturday mornings at 11. Brilliant. With good old Kenneth as well.

 

The days when Paolo Poggi was a frequent goalscorer of someone's bench, Andrea Silenzi was menacing, Christian Vieri was a youngster at Atalanta, Daniel Fonseca was the star at Napoli and Fabrizio Ferron died for 15 mins in an Atalanta game. Emotional.

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Ah I remember it back in the day, Saturday mornings at 11. Brilliant. With good old Kenneth as well.

 

I thought it was 10am on a Saturday Morning?

 

It's just so great to have it back. Finally I have full access to my two favourite European Leagues once again. I guess Setanta will show a large amount of games that I will want to see as well, but just as long as C5 have a decent highlights round-up programme, I will be more than happy.

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