Gary Lineker Netflix show The Rest Is Football is returning to Netflix for the upcoming Premier League season on a new two-year deal. The move extends a World Cup-era run into a weekly schedule, with the podcast still living on YouTube and audio platforms beside it.
Gary Lineker on weekly Netflix
Gary Lineker said the team had a brilliant time making the show during the World Cup and that the response was incredible. He added that it is great to be back on Netflix every week throughout the Premier League season, and that the Netflix show gives the team another chance to get stuck into the biggest stories.
Episodes are set to come out every Monday and Friday. The deal takes the show up to the 2028 Euros, which gives Netflix and Goalhanger a longer runway than the 40-day World Cup stint that first brought the format to the platform.
Goalhanger keeps the audio side
Before the Netflix deal, The Rest Is Football was produced for YouTube and podcast platforms, and those outlets will continue alongside the Netflix Premier League shows. That split matters for the audience: the television-style version gets a clear seasonal slot, while the existing audio and YouTube versions keep their own cadence and reach.
The series also showed it can travel on Netflix. During its World Cup run, it appeared in the Daily Top 10 TV chart every day and peaked at No. 1 in the UK, while the regular shows boast seven million monthly streams. Those numbers explain why Netflix chose to extend the partnership rather than treat the World Cup as a one-off trial.
Tony Pastor on the deal
Tony Pastor said The Rest Is Football was launched after the last World Cup and that Netflix has chosen to extend the partnership for a further two years. He said Gary, Alan and Micah are genuinely close friends who talk about football together constantly, and that the aim was to capture that warmth, wit and energy.
For viewers, the practical change is simple: Netflix now gets fresh Monday and Friday episodes through the Premier League season, while the podcast keeps running across the week too. What the deal does not spell out is the exact financial structure, but the length alone signals that Netflix sees this as a continuing football property rather than a seasonal experiment.
