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.
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