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Home > Screenings > All3Media International > Fever Pitch: The Rise of the Premier League

Producer: Adam Hopkins

Executive Producer: Peter Beard

Genres: Documentary


4 x 60 mins

Fever Pitch: The Rise of the Premier League reveals the definitive insiders’ story of how successive groups of business brains, players, agents and journalists utterly transformed English football and created an off-and-on pitch soap opera that continues to enthral an audience of nearly five billion people around the world. Focusing on individual stories told first-hand by a cast of famous faces, the series explores the extraordinary experience of those central to the rapid evolution of the most high-profile and lucrative sporting competition the world has ever seen – many of them young men from ordinary homes who overnight became millionaires and cultural icons amid the shifting attitudes and social change of 1990s Britain. Built at its outset on a high stakes business decision, wildly increasing sums of money have continued to define success and failure in the Premier League. This series unpicks the relationship between the business and the ballgame, the back room machinations and the iconic match day moments, to tell a definitive history of the 'greatest show on earth'.