The Football League Show is a BBC One

BBC One

BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution...

 football television show hosted by Manish Bhasin

Manish Bhasin

Manish Bhasin is a sports journalist and presenter currently working for the BBC as presenter of The Football League Show.-Early career:Bhasin graduated in 1997 from Anglia Ruskin University with a degree in "Communication Studies with English" and completed a diploma in "Broadcast Journalism" at...

, featuring highlights from the Championship

Football League Championship

The Football League Championship is the highest division of The Football League and second-highest division overall in the English football league system after the Premier League...

, League One

Football League One

Football League One is the second-highest division of The Football League and third-highest division overall in the English football league system....

 and League Two

Football League Two

Football League Two is the third-highest division of The Football League and fourth-highest division overall in the English football league system....

. It began on 8 August, 2009, at 11.45pm and immediately follows Match of the Day

Match of the Day

Match of the Day is the BBC's main football television programme. Typically, it is shown on BBC One on Saturday evenings during the English football season, showing highlights of the day's matches in English football's top division, the Premier League...

on Saturdays. Similar to other BBC Sport

BBC Sport

BBC Sport is the sports division of the BBC. It became a fully dedicated division of the BBC in 2000. It incorporates programmes such as Match of the Day, Grandstand , Test Match Special, Ski Sunday, Rugby Special and coverage of Formula One motor racing, MotoGP and the Wimbledon Tennis...

 studio shows, UK-based users of the BBC website can watch a live simulcast of the programme.

Format

The programme has a similar format to ITV's Championship Goals

Championship Goals

The Championship was a British football television programme featuring highlights from the Coca Cola Football League. It was almost always shown on Sunday mornings on ITV, presented by Matt Smith...

, with a featured match receiving full highlights and a round-up of other games. There can also be extensive highlights of any games covered live by Sky Sports

Sky Sports

Sky Sports is the brand name for a group of sports-oriented television channels operated by the UK and Ireland's main satellite pay-TV company, British Sky Broadcasting. Sky Sports is the dominant subscription television sports brand in the United Kingdom and Ireland...

 or the BBC itself. The programme is studio based. The first ever episode featured Steve Claridge

Steve Claridge

Stephen Edward Claridge is an English football player, pundit and coach. He is currently a pundit for BBC Sport football shows including Football Focus and the The Football League Show, whilst also playing as a striker for semi-professional team Gosport Borough.Claridge's career is known for its...

 alongside Blackpool

Blackpool

Blackpool is a borough, seaside town, and unitary authority area of Lancashire, in North West England. It is situated along England's west coast by the Irish Sea, between the Ribble and Wyre estuaries, northwest of Preston, north of Liverpool, and northwest of Manchester...

 manager Ian Holloway

Ian Holloway

Ian Scott Holloway is an English football manager and former player. He became the manager of Blackpool in May 2009. Holloway is well-known amongst football fans for his off-the-wall interviews, with a wide selection of quotes and soundbites being printed. Holloway's playing career spanned 18...

 but from the second episode onwards only featured Claridge as pundit or on some occasions former Torquay United and Brentford

Brentford

Brentford is a suburban town in west London, England, and part of the London Borough of Hounslow. It is located at the confluence of the River Thames and the River Brent, west-southwest of Charing Cross. Its former ceremonial county was Middlesex.-Toponymy:...

 manager Leroy Rosenior

Leroy Rosenior

Leroy Rosenior is a professional football coach and pundit. He is a former professional footballer whose clubs included Fulham, Queens Park Rangers , Bristol City and West Ham United.As one of the few black football managers in England, Rosenior has spoken openly about the racism...

, occasionally both Claridge and Rosenior have appeared on the same programme offering analysis of games.

Presenter, commentators and reporters

The presenter of the show is Manish Bhasin

Manish Bhasin

Manish Bhasin is a sports journalist and presenter currently working for the BBC as presenter of The Football League Show.-Early career:Bhasin graduated in 1997 from Anglia Ruskin University with a degree in "Communication Studies with English" and completed a diploma in "Broadcast Journalism" at...

 having left Football Focus to present. Whenever Manish is unavailable it is Mark Chapman who hosts. These are current BBC employees but as TWI handles production on behalf of the BBC, a number of freelance journalists who work for TWI regularly voice goal round-ups. These include Channel 5's UEFA Europa League commentator Dave Beckett, Nick Halling

Nick Halling

Nick Halling is a British sports broadcaster and journalist. He is a boxing commentator for Sky Sports and presented their American football for 15 years, as well as ice hockey, ten-pin bowling and numerous other events....

 who is best known as Sky Sports' American Football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

 expert, ESPN and talkSPORT

TalkSPORT

Talksport , owned by UTV radio, is one of the United Kingdom's three terrestrial analogue Independent National Radio broadcasters, offering a sports and talk radio service broadcast from London to the United Kingdom....

's Jim Proudfoot

Jim Proudfoot

Jim Proudfoot is an English football commentator, who has worked on national radio and television since the late 1990s.Proudfoot was born in the West Country on 16 December 1972, but moved to the Midlands at a young age...

, and Peter Brackley

Peter Brackley

Peter Brackley is a football commentator, perhaps most famous for covering Football Italia on Channel 4 in the 1990s and formerly commentating for the computer game series Pro Evolution Soccer, and for Michael Owen's World League Soccer '99.-Radio:...

 who also works on ITV

ITV

ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...

. Freelance commentators primarily working with the BBC such as John Roder, Jonathan Legard

Jonathan Legard

Jonathan Legard , is a sports journalist, best known as the lead commentator for the BBC's Formula One TV coverage in 2009 and 2010....

, Dan O'Hagan

Dan O'Hagan

Dan O'Hagan is a freelance football commentator and TV presenter, who covers the UEFA Champions League for SBS in Australia. Formerly he was the voice of the world feed for the French Football League...

 and Alistair Mann

Alistair Mann

Alistair Mann is a BBC football commentator. He trained as a journalist at the department of Journalism, Media and Communication, University of Central Lancashire. Since 2006 he has been a regular on the BBC's flagship Match of the Day programme, mainly covering matches in the North of England...

 also appear, commentating both on round-ups and featured games and Tony Jones

Tony Jones (football reporter)

Tony Jones is a football broadcaster based in England. He has contributed to all the commercial UK broadcasting outlets - Sky Sports, five, Channel 4 and ITV - commentating on everything from the UEFA Champions League to the English non-League.He was part of the Hostbroadcastservices team at...

 has also commentated on the show.

BBC Radio 5 Live

BBC Radio 5 Live

BBC Radio 5 Live is the BBC's national radio service that specialises in live BBC News, phone-ins, and sports commentaries...

's Mark Clemmit

Mark Clemmit

Mark Clemmit, often referred to as Clem, is a reporter on BBC One's The Football League Show in the 2009/10 season.Clemmit is also a regular on BBC Radio 5 Live and co-presents 5 Live Football League with Arlo White, a review of the top stories from the Championship and the Football League.He has...

 is the roving reporter, who visits a ground to spend the day with a team each week. This is similar in style to the work done by Kevin Day

Kevin Day

Kevin Day is a British stand up comedian, comedy writer and sports presenter, born in London.He came to prominence in the British alternative comedy stand up scene of the late eighties and early nineties, playing clubs like The Comedy Store...

 on Match of the Day 2

Match of the Day 2

Match of the Day 2 is a football highlights programme shown on BBC Two in the United Kingdom...

. It is made for the BBC by IMG Sports Media, the largest independent sports producer in the world.

Interactive

There was also an interactive e-mail segment where fans can express their points of view. These e-mails were read out by one of the BBC's sports news presenters, mainly Jacqui Oatley

Jacqui Oatley

Jacqueline Anne "Jacqui" Oatley is a British sports broadcaster for BBC Sport, reporting and commentating mostly on football. She is best known for being the first female commentator on Match of the Day...

 or Lizzie Greenwood-Hughes. This feature was dropped from the start of the 2011-12 football season.

Other programmes

The BBC's rights deal with the Football League also includes the Carling Cup. The BBC will show a live leg of each semi-final and the final itself, as well as highlights of each round. For these highlights, the programme is rebranded as The League Cup Show.

A regional spin-off programme, Late Kick Off

Late Kick Off

Late Kick Off was a BBC One regional television football programme which was launched on 18 January 2010 and ran up to and including the 2010-2011 football season...

, launched on Monday 18th January 2010 which broadcasts on a weekly basis from every January until the end of the season.