{"id":583581,"date":"2026-08-13T15:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T15:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/583581\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T15:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T15:24:12","slug":"disney-secures-rights-to-gary-nevilles-overlap-content-in-riposte-to-linekers-netflix-deal-gary-neville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/583581\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney+ secures rights to Gary Neville\u2019s Overlap content in riposte to Lineker\u2019s Netflix deal | Gary Neville"},"content":{"rendered":"

Disney+ has secured the rights to broadcast The Overlap\u2019s podcast content in a multimillion pound deal under which Gary Neville\u2019s Stick to Football brand will compete with Gary Lineker\u2019s Netflix-backed Rest is Football in a battle between two of the world\u2019s biggest streaming platforms.<\/p>\n

Under the terms of a deal that also includes title sponsorship, Disney+ will broadcast 40 episodes of Stick to Football this season featuring the regular team of Neville, Jamie Carragher, Jill Scott, Ian Wright and Roy Keane, as well as 50 episodes of a new programme, Stick to United with Wayne Rooney, which will be co-presented by the content creator Mark Goldbridge.<\/p>\n

While both programmes will continue to be available on YouTube, Disney+ will also commission six additional episodes of Stick to Football that will be exclusively available to its subscribers for a limited time period before being released on YouTube.<\/p>\n

The Overlap will retain the intellectual property to the rights, with Disney+ paying millions to attach its brand and distribute the shows on its platform.<\/p>\n

Neville launched The Overlap along with the former Sky Sports producer Scott Melvin in 2021 and it has grown quickly to become one of the UK\u2019s most popular football content channels, as well as branching out into other sports, with the Stick to Cricket podcast presented by Michael Vaughan and David Lloyd launched last year also proving popular.<\/p>\n

The company said this year that it is attracting 38m monthly views on YouTube after achieving 2.2bn views across all platforms in 2025, and is continuing to expand.<\/p>\n

The multimedia company Global, which owns the radio station LBC and podcasts including The News Agents, bought a majority stake in The Overlap last January, which was followed in April by the acquisition of Goldbridge\u2019s YouTube channels, The United Stand and That\u2019s Football.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re immensely proud to be partnering with Disney+\u201d Neville said. \u201cIt\u2019s a partnership that expands our reach without compromising our identity.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s exciting is that we\u2019re not changing who we are. Our community will continue to enjoy our content in exactly the way they always have through YouTube, while at the same time Disney+\u2019s incredible global streaming audience will now be able to discover and enjoy it too.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Rooney will also join The Overlap stable on a permanent basis having previously made guest appearances, while Disney+ has also bought the rights to a new documentary about his family life, The Real Rooneys.<\/p>\n

Disney+\u2019s investment in The Overlap follows a similar deal announced last month involving Netflix and Lineker\u2019s Goalhanger production company, whose Rest is Football series also featuring Alan Shearer and Micah Richards will be available on the platform for the next two seasons.<\/p>\n

The Rest is Football appeared in Netflix\u2019s daily top 10 charts on every day of its 40-day run of daily episodes filmed during the World Cup, with the US company opting to continue their partnership during the domestic season.<\/p>\n

The Rest is Football obtained more than 7m monthly streams for its content alone last season, leading Lineker to joke that its rival is \u201clanguishing miles behind\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Disney+ has secured the rights to broadcast The Overlap\u2019s podcast content in a multimillion pound deal under which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-583581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}