Amazon Prime Video is working on a documentary directed by Oscar winner Asif Kapadia (Maradona, Senna, Amy) about Liverpool Football Club legend Sir Kenny Dalglish as it continues to grow its sports slate in the UK.
Sir Kenny Dalglish
Currently in production, King Kenny is set to launch in 2025 and will follow the Scotsman, regarded as one of the greatest football players of all time, as he explores his life and career.
Amazon held a star-studded event in London this morning featuring talent from its sports slate, including Dalglish, who spoke to TV presenter Gabby Logan about the doc.
Logan will be fronting Prime Video’s upcoming UEFA Champions League coverage, which makes its debut on the service after the online retail giant dropped out of the bidding for the English Premier League rights in the most recent auction.
TNT Sports (fka BT Sport) holds the bulk of the live UEFA Champions League matches and highlights in the UK, but the deal, agreed in 2022, also gives the BBC highlight rights to the competition for the first time, while Prime Video will air 17 exclusive UEFA Champions League matches per season, on Tuesday evenings.
In addition to the UK, Prime Video also broadcasts exclusive UEFA Champions League football in Germany and Italy.
This is alongside a wide selection of live sport on Prime Video globally, including Premier League football in Sweden and Denmark, Wimbledon tennis in Germany and Austria, Roland-Garros tennis in France, NFL Thursday Night Football in the US, NHL Prime Monday Night Hockey in Canada and ICC Cricket in Australia.
Prime Video’s global head of sports, Jay Marine, also confirmed an exclusive NBA basketball deal coming to Prime Video in the UK from the 2025/26 season as part of a landmark 11-year media rights agreement announced last month.
As part of this global deal, Prime members in the UK will have exclusive access to a minimum of 87 NBA regular season games per year, a third of the games in the first two rounds of the NBA play-offs, every game of the postseason SoFi NBA Play-In Tournament, a Conference Finals series each year and the NBA Finals in six of the 11 years. This annual package of more than 100 NBA matches will be available to all Prime members in the UK from October 2025.
The sports showcase also featured former boxers Frank Bruno and Chris Eubank Snr, who appear in Prime Video’s upcoming four-part documentary series Four Kings, which launches on September 27.
Logan was also joined on-stage by Lina and Johan Eriksson, the children of Sven-Göran Eriksson, who is the subject of the upcoming documentary Sven, which launches this Friday, alongside the film’s director, Claudia Corbisiero.
Eriksson, the first foreign football manager of the England team, who revealed his terminal cancer diagnosis earlier this year, discussed his motivations for creating the film in a video interview recorded while filming the doc.
The docs join other Prime Video titles such as 99, Federer: Twelve Final Days, Ronnie O’Sullivan: The Edge of Everything, All or Nothing: Arsenal, We Are Newcastle United, Ben Stokes: Phoenix from the Ashes and The Test.
“The success of live sports and documentaries in the UK, driven by a uniquely passionate fanbase, has fuelled the growth of sports on Prime globally,” said Marine.
“We are investing more in UK sports than ever before with a year-long programme of top-pick UEFA Champions League matches and a diverse slate of documentaries, all at no additional cost for millions of UK households.
“Prime Video is a leading destination for sports fans with a wide selection of subscription and pay-per-view events and we’re excited to add over 100 live and exclusive NBA games per season on Prime from next year.”