who presents efl on quest?
ITV have took to name their new presenters for their upcoming EFL coverage plus details on the highlights show, which moves over from Quest.
EFL have confirm a new channel for their weekly highlights show from next season – with it currently aired on Quest TV since 2018, but now it’s time to say goodbye to Quest for highlights next season with the EFL announcing a new deal with ITV.
Similar format with every goal from every game. Will be at 9pm on ITV4 on Saturdays, plus midweek shows. However, a lot of people are saddened to see Colin Murray isn’t coming back.
Hugh Woozencroft and Jules Breach will present ITV’s EFL coverage from the start of the 22/23 football season.
The announcement follows the EFL’s unveiling of the new season fixture list yesterday.
ITV announced earlier this year its deal to show highlights of the Championship, League One, League Two, Carabao Cup and the Papa John’s Trophy from the 2022/23 season after the broadcaster entered into a two-season partnership with the EFL.
Hugh Woozencroft said: “I’m so excited to help bring the EFL to ITV Sport audiences and it’s a privilege to take up the responsibility of covering the EFL in a impactful, entertaining manner. The EFL is a unique sporting institution with incredible history, fantastic clubs and amazing, loyal fans. I really look forward to bringing the rollercoaster of the season to life and can’t wait for kick off next month.”
The first highlights show will be on air on Saturday 30 July .
Hugh will be joined by presenter Jules Breach, who said: “I’m absolutely thrilled to be joining the ITV football team. The Football League never fails to entertain and deliver amazing stories every single season and there’s nothing quite like the passion you see from fans up and down the English football pyramid. Can’t wait to get started.”
Throughout the season, a comprehensive round-up of all the day’s action from across the EFL will be screened in the primetime slot each Saturday at 9pm on ITV4, with a repeat being shown on ITV later in the evening.
And for those who want to catch up on all the highlights on Sunday mornings, viewers will be able to watch again on ITV.
Highlights of midweek fixtures, where a full round has taken place, will also be broadcast on ITV and ITV Hub, covering Sky Bet EFL matches.
Each show will feature every goal from every EFL fixture plus detailed analysis from a panel of expert pundits.
ITV will also present extensive coverage of Sky Bet Play-Off semi-finals and finals as well as a highlights programme for each of the Rounds of the Carabao Cup and the two-legged semi-finals and final.
A one-hour programme of highlights from the Papa John’s Trophy Final will be shown on ITV4 on the day of the final.
Each highlights programme will be available in full, on a catch-up basis on ITV Hub during the period of 30 days following its first transmission.
EFL Chief Executive Trevor Birch said: “With 1891 matches played across the season, it’s crucial for the EFL that the very best of our match action is widely accessible and we are delighted that ITV will show highlights of our games for the next two years.
“As an experienced major broadcaster with a comprehensive sports portfolio, ITV’s commitment to high quality coverage will showcase the breadth and depth of our competitions to football supporters all over the country.”
Niall Sloane, ITV Director of Sport, said: “This deal brings viewers free to air coverage of one of the most unpredictable divisions we have in the Sky Bet Championship, the best of the action from Sky Bet League One and League Two alongside the exciting midweek competitions in the Carabao Cup and the Papa John’s Trophy. By offering highlights across our platforms, via our channels and on demand on ITV Hub, we hope football fans will enjoy our EFL shows from next season.”
The deal further enhances ITV’s portfolio of world-class sports rights, which includes exclusive live coverage of the England men’s and England women’s football team, the FA Cup, the Six Nations, the Rugby World Cup, Premiership Rugby, horse racing and the Tour de France.
Fans reacted as ITV name new presenters for their EFL coverage plus details on the highlights show…
@jamieriley31: @ColinMurray
@thePatrickNEV: From strength to strength looking forward to this 🔥🔥
@StevenCWallis: Where is Colin Murray or Matt Smith? It’s rather simple. Don’t fix something that isn’t broken.
@Zain1702: Good choice!
@BISONS1973: She’s part of the dreadful England coverage on ch4 😂
@tksalwander: Hope they do well but not a good idea losing Colin. Passion is unrivalled
@isalouald: Gutted to lose @ColinMurray I really hope the presenters have a genuine interest in the lower leagues.
@tom_lewo: Should’ve collaborated @ColinMurray and @_manishbhasin smh
@garylmarks: Disappointing. @ColinMurray is the absolute Don of presenting the EFL.
@m112oto: Sign up @ColinMurray
@GodBliss88: Colin Murray will take some beating, knew his shit
@JordRich97: Bit of an own goal not having @ColinMurray involved. Big shoes to fill.
Quest doesn’t really even sound like a TV channel and does anyone watch anything else on it? Fish Tank Kings, Doomsday Preppers (Preppers?!) and Giant Lobster Hunters maybe? Nonetheless, it has been a welcome home for the EFL highlights and it has garnered a loyal following. In part this is because it has been presented so well by Colin Murray in an informal but knowledgeable way. It had settled into a nice groove…so nice I had begun to take it for granted along with a peak audience number of over 600,000 others.
If ITV have any sense at all, they’ll offer Colin the gig and transfer the show lock, stock and two smoking barrels because not only has he proven to be the ideal host of a show, but importantly he is someone that has enthusiasm for the EFL gig and understanding of it. With over 1800 games per season to cover, this isn’t just a mere churn of the facts, because to fully appreciate the EFL you’ve got to get your head under its bonnet and have a good poke around. Under Colin’s stewardship, the overall feel has been one of informed accessibility, of knowledge worn lightly and, perhaps more importantly, of fun. Yes, fun. That thing we used to have at football before people started taking it so seriously and pretending it’s a science.
I’m a firm believer that in order to take anything seriously you’ve got to be able to laugh at it and the EFL highlights show has always had an element of that. There is an implicit understanding that football at this level has a social, civic and cultural context and that money can’t buy you love. And that’s something missing from the coverage: money. Discussion of the game is not weighed down by talk of money in the same way the top flight is, largely because few have any. And what a relief that is.
The noise from the Premier League is so loud and brash that it can drown out everything else. But of course, true football fans, even those of Premier League clubs like Colin, know the heart and soul of football is kept alive down in the Championship, League One, League Two and in the National League and below too. And in the same way the backstreet independent record shop has always been cooler than HMV, football’s boondocks have always been cooler than its moneybags cousin.
That’s why the EFL highlights are so important. They keep us all in touch with those roots, with that real heart and soul. Many don’t want to watch autocratic regimes and bloody warmonger-funded football teams playing each other. It turns their guts. But you don’t have to worry about a club’s owners murdering thousands of people, don’t have to worry about the owners deploying oppressive statecraft, when you’re watching the EFL. While there have been well-documented disastrous ownerships, by and large they have not carpet bombed Yemen. They might have a dodgy carpet warehouse, but that’s about as bad as it gets.
In many ways that really matter, the EFL highlights are the most important show broadcast because the EFL comprises most professional football in this country, even if it lives off a tiny sliver of the overall income. It is also the most popular to watch. The collective attendances of EFL games outweigh those going to the Premier League by about 20 million to 14 million attendances. Its TV viewing figures, even on a channel at the dusty end of your clicker, show there is a loyal following.
And unlike the top flight, when August rolls around, no-one has any real idea who will get into the play-offs, who will win those play offs, who will be the automatic promotion teams, nor who will be relegated. All three leagues are almost entirely unpredictable. While this unpredictability is being increasingly tempered somewhat in the Championship by the parachute payments making it easier for the likes of Fulham, Bournemouth, Norwich etc to go back up, even so, game to game, it is impossible to call the winner in advance and teams relegated from the top flight have frequently struggled to adjust.
Leagues One and Two are always up for grabs by anyone who can put a good run together. Clubs rise and fall up and down the league. And how great for any football programme to have that core unpredictability as its content, as opposed to the ‘oh look, the richest team won again’ that is the norm in the Premier League.
The lesson the Premier League pushes and has successfully indoctrinated into people and even into clubs, is that it is ‘Premier’ and thus worth all the extra money it costs to see it and all the extra money it hoovers up. But the EFL highlights show is an important counter to that. It shows week after week that fans of clubs in the EFL are no less entertained than their top-flight counterparts. Just look at them. They celebrate goals like everyone else. It’s not an inferior feeling they’re having. Try telling a Bristol Rovers fan, after their (slightly World Cup 1978) 7-0 win over Scunthorpe’s junior team in order to get automatic promotion that this isn’t premier entertainment.
The EFL show is important in reminding us all that there is life beyond the lighted stage of the Premier League, a reminder that money is not the be all and end all, that seeing the best players – whatever that might actually mean – is no guarantee of thrilling football and that football’s joys are not confined to the self-proclaimed best league in the world.
The EFL highlights keeps us in touch with those 72 clubs and in doing so keeps us in touch with important stuff. It’s also where you can see players such as Ivan Toney who will end up in the top flight, maybe even end up playing for their country. If you are just Premier League focussed, players like Toney appear to have come out of nowhere, but to EFL fans they knew all about him going back to his Northampton days.
So farewell EFL highlights on Quest, you were always very much the delicious tapas on the bar with a glass of something cold, compared to the top flight’s fatty, stodgy, carb-heavy, live game served up on the stained tablecloth of life.
When can I watch EFL highlights on ITV?
Highlights from the Sky Bet Championship, League One and League Two will be shown at 9pm on ITV4 on Saturday nights.
A repeat will be shown later in the night on ITV and a further repeat on ITV on Sunday morning.
Who are the presenters of the EFL highlights on ITV?
Jules Breach and Hugh Woozencroft will be presenting EFL highlights on ITV.
Will there be EFL highlights of midweek games on ITV?
When there is a full round of midweek fixtures, highlghts will be broadcast on ITV and ITV Hub.
Will there be highlights of the Sy Bet Play-Offs, Carabao Cup and Papa Johns Trophy on ITV?
ITV will also present extensive coverage of Sky Bet Play-Off Semi-Finals and Finals as well as a highlights programme for each of the Rounds of the Carabao Cup and the two-legged Semi-Finals and Final.
EFL on Quest is a football highlights programme on the Quest channel in the United Kingdom. The programme covered the English Football League, taking over from Channel 5's Football League Tonight.
Starting from the 2018–19 season, the four-year deal saw Quest provide 90 minutes of extensive match highlights of the English Championship, League One and League Two, hosted by Colin Murray, in primetime at 9pm every Saturday night. As a result, the channel announced a HD version would launch in July 2018. It launched on 21 July 2018 on Virgin Media channel 217 but was removed on 24 July 2018. It officially launched on 2 August 2018 on Virgin Media, on 3 August on Freesat and Sky, and on 14 August on Freeview. A duplicate version was also added to Virgin Media from 22 July 2018 to 11 August 2018 on channel 194 as a replacement for Dave HD following the UKTV channels' removals.
The EFL said in its news release on 4 May 2018 that "the partnership between the EFL and Quest will guarantee accessible high quality, free-to-air coverage for football fans across the country". When the first programme was broadcast on 4 August 2018, viewers experienced frequent breakup of picture and the screen aspect was reduced to the obsolete 4:3 ratio. Numerous complaints were made and Digital Spy ran a feature on the impact of the "technical difficulties". Quest claimed that "some" viewers experienced problems but the Digital Spy investigation strongly suggests that everyone was impacted. Quest added that they were working to resolve the issue.
Starting on 30 March 2019, the programme was extended to two hours, with increased coverage of League One and League Two and with a second pundit added.
On 23 February 2022, the EFL announced that they had awarded ITV the rights for EFL Highlights from the start of the 2022–23 season, thus meaning that the show came to an end at the end of the season following the conclusion of Quest's contract. The last episode aired in 29 May 2022, and the HD version of Quest was subsequently shut down on Freeview a month later.
The programme was usually presented by former BBC and Channel 5 presenter Colin Murray, although on certain weekends the show was presented by Jacqui Oatley or Michelle Owen.
Alongside the presenter were two of a number of pundits, including Ian Holloway, Dean Ashton, Stephen Warnock, Michael Brown, Sue Smith, Curtis Davies, Sam Parkin, Ali Maxwell, George Elek, Michael Appleton and Gary McSheffrey. Sometimes guest pundits such as EFL managers were also present.
Commentary came from the Pitch International world feed commentators, such as Paul Walker, Nigel Adderley, Kevin Keatings, Dan Mason, Jon Champion, Steve Wilson, Dan O'Hagan, John Roder, Chris Sharples, Dave Farrar, Joe Speight, James Fielden, Jon Driscoll, Martin Fisher and Sam Matterface. QUEST also used their own commentators on certain games, such as Simon Watts, Jonathan Legard, Andy Clarke, and world feed regulars such as Paul Walker, Dan Mason, Chris Sharples and Dan O'Hagan.
The programme had largely the same reporters as the BBC's The Football League Show and Channel 5's Football League Tonight - regulars included the likes of Sue Thearle, Chris Ford, Georgie Bingham, Dave Beckett, Matt Williams, Nick Halling, Jack Woodward, Tom Skippings, Jonathan Legard, Danny Jamieson, Ollie Wilson, Alison Bender, Will Cope and Tim Long.
The programme was usually presented by former BBC and Channel 5 presenter Colin Murray, although on certain weekends the show was presented by Jacqui Oatley or Michelle Owen.
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