Gary Lineker's exit from MOTD leaves him free to focus his podcast company on the US market where President Trump offers a major opportunity to sweep up listeners fed up with partisan politics
With his BBC career set to draw to a close, Lineker is planning a global expansion forLineker, who will give up presentingat the end of this season, has been impressed by the early success of an American spin-off of the “centrist”Inspired by Lineker’s belief that people holding different political views can “disagree agreeably”,, fronted by Trump’s former communications director Anthony Scaramucci and former BBC journalist Katty Kay, is now the world’s fastest-growing political podcast,...
“We are excited to provide this new alternative and Katty and Anthony are perfectly positioned to provide insider perspectives from the Trump administration.” He cautioned: “The successful shows, however, are partisan ones. Whether right-wing like Ben Shapiro or left-wing like Pod Save America there isn’t a lot of room for being centrist – NPR is much lower down the charts.”
Episodes average more than three million downloads per month in the US alone, where Holland and Sandbrook are currently on a sold-out tour. The pair headlined a New York show this week. Goalhanger said it expected its football show to reach even greater heights at the 2026 World Cup, which is staged in North American, Canada and Mexico.
episodes, which will run on Sounds 48 hours after debuting on commercial networks Spotify and Apple. The panellists are not shy of swearing, so the Sounds airing will be accompanied by a language warning and strategic “bleeps” where required. A separate TV company, Goalhanger Films, which produced documentaries with sports stars including Serena Williams and Mo Salah, but was superseded by the success of the podcast business, has filed for voluntary liquidation, according to a Companies House filing this week.
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