Gary Lineker’s Goalhanger Shuts TV Production Arm To Focus On Podcasts
Exclusive: Goalhanger, the influential UK podcast company co-founded by Gary Lineker, is closing its TV production arm to focus on audio content.
Lineker and business partner Tony Pastor are voluntarily liquidating Goalhanger Films Ltd, which was the outfit’s original incarnation, founded in 2014.
Goalhanger Films produced documentaries including Football, Prince William and Our Mental Health for the BBC and Keane & Vieira – Best of Enemies for ITV.
Pastor told Deadline that the success of podcasts including The Rest Is History and The Rest Is Entertainment meant the company had switched its focus to Goalhanger Podcasts.
“We effectively mothballed Films and set up a bespoke company concentrating on podcasts,” he said. “There was a period in which I ran them in tandem, but the growth of podcasts was so explosive and television is challenged, so we’ve now done some housekeeping.”
He added: “We’ve gone from a production company being entirely...
Lineker and business partner Tony Pastor are voluntarily liquidating Goalhanger Films Ltd, which was the outfit’s original incarnation, founded in 2014.
Goalhanger Films produced documentaries including Football, Prince William and Our Mental Health for the BBC and Keane & Vieira – Best of Enemies for ITV.
Pastor told Deadline that the success of podcasts including The Rest Is History and The Rest Is Entertainment meant the company had switched its focus to Goalhanger Podcasts.
“We effectively mothballed Films and set up a bespoke company concentrating on podcasts,” he said. “There was a period in which I ran them in tandem, but the growth of podcasts was so explosive and television is challenged, so we’ve now done some housekeeping.”
He added: “We’ve gone from a production company being entirely...
- 11/14/2024
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
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