Sports Life Stories | |
---|---|
Created by | ITV Sport |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
No. of series | 3 |
No. of episodes | 24 |
Production | |
Running time | 60 Minutes |
Production company | ITV Sport |
Original release | |
Network | ITV4 |
Release | 23 October 2012 – present |
Sports Life Stories is an ITV Sport documentary series shown on ITV4 and ITV. Each episode is devoted to one sporting great and lets them tell their life story alongside contributions from friends and family as well as sporting archive. The first episode told the story of boxer Barry McGuigan and aired in October 2012 on ITV4. Reporters on the series have included Gabriel Clarke, Ned Boulting, Adam Darke and Leon Mann.
# | Index | Guest | First TX | Directed by |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 1 | Barry McGuigan | 23 October 2012 | Gabriel Clarke Tim Mackenzie-Smith |
2 | 2 | Gareth Thomas | 30 October 2012 | Gabriel Clarke Tim Mackenzie-Smith |
3 | 3 | Ronnie O'Sullivan [1] | 6 November 2012 | Lewis Hurt |
4 | 4 | Dame Kelly Holmes | 13 November 2012 | Jason Bernard |
5 | 5 | Lawrence Dallaglio | 20 November 2012 | Tim Mackenzie-Smith |
6 | 6 | Amir Khan | 27 November 2012 | Gabriel Clarke Neil Cox |
7 | 7 | Fabrice Muamba [2] | 4 December 2012 | Gabriel Clarke Lewis Hurt |
8 | 8 | Brian Lara | 11 December 2012 | Jason Bernard |
# | Index | Guest | First TX | Directed by |
---|---|---|---|---|
9 | 1 | James Cracknell [3] | 22 October 2013 | Gabriel Clarke Tim Mackenzie-Smith |
10 | 2 | David Weir [4] | 29 October 2013 | James Williams |
11 | 3 | Jermain Defoe | 5 November 2013 [5] | Tim Mackenzie-Smith |
12 | 4 | Nicola Adams | 12 November 2013 | Jay Gill |
13 | 5 | Jimmy White | 26 November 2013 | Lewis Hurt |
14 | 6 | Eric Bristow | 3 December 2013 | Gabriel Clarke Tim Mackenzie-Smith |
15 | 7 | Didier Drogba | 10 December 2013 | Daniel Hart |
16 | 8 | Chris Eubank | 17 December 2013 | Gabriel Clarke Guney Gok |
# | Index | Guest | First TX | Directed by |
---|---|---|---|---|
17 | 1 | Peter Shilton [6] | 17 February 2015 | Lewis Hurt |
18 | 2 | Chris Froome | 24 February 2015 | Ned Boulting Andrew Hill |
19 | 3 | Paula Radcliffe | 3 March 2015 | Luke Mellows |
20 | 4 | Andy Cole [7] | 10 March 2015 | Shurwin Beckford & Laurence Koe |
21 | 5 | Linford Christie | 24 March 2015 | Adam Maynard |
22 | 6 | John Barnes [8] | 31 March 2015 | Gabriel Clarke Jay Gill |
23 | 7 | Jason Robinson | 7 April 2015 | Joe Blake-Turner |
24 | 8 | Carl Froch | 14 April 2015 | Martyn Reardon |
Sports Life Stories has been described as a 'first-class interview series' by broadcaster Des Lynam [9] and as 'the best sports documentary series on television' by TV critic Ian Hyland. [10] Sports Life Stories was awarded Television Programme of the Year 2013 at the Sports Journalists' Association Awards on 24 March 2014. [11]
Ian Edward Wright is an English television and radio personality and former professional footballer.
Caroline Quentin is an English actress, broadcaster and television presenter. Quentin became known for her television appearances: portraying Dorothy in Men Behaving Badly (1992–1998), Maddie Magellan in Jonathan Creek (1997–2000), Kate Salinger in Kiss Me Kate and DCI Janine Lewis in Blue Murder (2003–2009).
ITV2 is a British free-to-air television channel owned by ITV Digital Channels, a division of ITV plc. It was launched on 7 December 1998. For a number of years, it had the largest audience share after the five analogue terrestrial stations, a claim now held by its sister service ITV3 both of which are freely available to a majority of households.
Kathryn Mary Draper - Garraway is an English broadcaster and journalist. In the 1990s, Garraway was a journalist for ITV News Central and later a co-presenter of ITV News Meridian. From 2000 to 2010, she co-presented GMTV. Currently, Garraway is the presenter of Mid Mornings with Kate Garraway on Smooth Radio and newsreader and co-anchor of the ITV Breakfast programme Good Morning Britain.
ITV3 is a British free-to-air television channel owned by ITV Digital Channels, a division of ITV plc. The channel was first launched on Monday 1 November 2004 at 9 pm, replacing Plus (Granada). ITV3 is the sixth-largest UK television channel by audience share and the largest after the five main terrestrial services, the position which was previously held by its sister station ITV2. The channel is known for repeats of ITV dramas, and including sequential reruns of Agatha Christie's Poirot, Classic Coronation Street, Classic Emmerdale, Heartbeat, Inspector Morse and A Touch of Frost, amongst others as well as formerly showing repeats of Kojak, Numb3rs, Columbo, Cagney & Lacey and The Bill.
ITV4 is a British free-to-air television channel which first aired on 1 November 2005. It is owned by ITV Digital Channels, a division of ITV plc, and is part of the ITV network. The channel has a line-up that consists of sports including Football, Rugby, Snooker, Cycling, Darts and Horse Racing, cult classic films such as James Bond, US dramas and classic ITV action series of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
Bradley John Walsh is an English actor, television presenter, comedian, singer, and former professional footballer.
Benjamin Peter Sherrington Shephard is an English television presenter and journalist.
Kirk Sutherland is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera Coronation Street. The character first appeared on-screen as "Mark" during the episode airing on May 22, 2000, played by an uncredited walk-on actor. He was renamed Kirk and has been played by Andy Whyment since October 2000.
Jacqueline Denise Welch is an English actress, television personality, writer and broadcaster. Her roles include Natalie Barnes in Coronation Street (1997–2000), Steph Haydock in Waterloo Road (2006–2010), and Trish Minniver in Hollyoaks (2021–2022). Welch also appears as a regular panellist on the ITV chat show Loose Women.
Stephen James Mangan is an English actor, comedian, presenter and writer. He has played Guy Secretan in Green Wing, Dan Moody in I'm Alan Partridge, Seán Lincoln in Episodes, Bigwig in Watership Down, Postman Pat in Postman Pat: The Movie, Richard Pitt in Hang Ups, Andrew in Bliss (2018), and Nathan Stern in The Split (2018–2022).
ITV Sport is a sport producer for ITV. It was formed following the merger between Granada Sport and Central Sport.
Gregg Allan Wallace is an English broadcaster, entrepreneur and writer. He is known for co-presenting MasterChef, Celebrity MasterChef and MasterChef: The Professionals on BBC One and BBC Two. He has written regularly for Good Food, Now and Olive magazines.
Christine Louise Lampard is a Northern Irish broadcaster. She has presented various television programmes with Adrian Chiles, such as The One Show (2007–2010) and Daybreak (2010–2011), while with Phillip Schofield she has presented Dancing on Ice (2012–2014) and This Morning. Lampard has also presented factual series for ITV including Off The Beaten Track (2013) and Wild Ireland (2015). Since 2016 she has been a presenter of the ITV lunchtime chat show Loose Women.
Emma Louise Willis is an English broadcaster. She is known for her television and radio work with Channel 5, BBC, ITV, and Heart FM. Willis has presented Big Brother and Celebrity Big Brother (2013–2018), as well as the spin-off series Big Brother's Bit on the Side (2011–2015). She has presented The Voice UK (2014–present), and the children's spin-off The Voice Kids UK (2017–2023). In 2019 and 2021, Willis presented the second and third series of The Circle. She will be co-hosting Love Is Blind: UK with her husband Matt Willis.
Joey Donald Essex is an English television personality. From 2011 to 2013, he made appearances on the ITV reality series The Only Way Is Essex. In 2013 he participated in the first series of Splash! and the thirteenth series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, where he finished in fourth place. In 2015 he won the Channel 4 series The Jump. In 2020, he appeared on the first series of Celebrity Ex on the Beach. In 2022, he participated in the eighth series of the Australian version of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, finishing in sixth place and in 2023, he was the runner-up of the fifteenth series of Dancing on Ice. In 2024, he appeared on the eleventh series of Love Island.
Mark Alan Williams-Thomas is an English investigative journalist, sexual abuse victim advocate, and former police officer. He is a regular reporter on This Morning and Channel 4 News, as well as the ITV series Exposure and the ITV and Netflix crime series The Investigator: A British Crime Story.
Secret Life of... is a British factual documentary show, which follows the lives of each show's subject, finding out more about what life is like for that being. Episodes are narrated by Martin Clunes.
Robert Michael Rinder, sometimes known as Judge Rinder, is a British criminal barrister and television personality. In 2014, while still a practising barrister, he began hosting the reality courtroom series Judge Rinder. In 2019, he also began hosting the Channel 4 series The Rob Rinder Verdict.
Roman Kemp is an American-born British radio host and television personality. From 2017 to 2024, he presented the national radio network Capital FM breakfast show. Kemp presents The One Show on BBC One. In 2019, he finished in third place in the nineteenth series of I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!.