of punditry but where we can see the games committee, you think there s a risk we are asking too much of fans? so, a leicester city fan may have to pay the licence even on top of that you might pay for sky and bt and amazon, it s quite a long list now. do you think that s the sport being reasonable towards fans? i mean, i think when you look at it, particularly when you made the sky, in particular who went obviously at the start of the premier league, i mean, they ve survived on football. they put a lot of money for it, and they ve helped football along the way, but you can imagine if suddenly they lost the rights completely to the premier league, what would happen to sky sports?
but the timing of the games being available? withing about ronaldo and his come back at old trafford that happens at 3pm on saturday afternoon, good for you and this programme for people to wait to see it but it is an anachronism that a modern sport like football with a modern product like the premier league is not letting you see a moment like that at the time? i think that s one of the great wonders of the premier league that they do that because it does not really happen anywhere else. and it s done notjust to make sure that crowds of people still go to football matches all the time, which is you want, full houses are really important to football and i think we ve noticed that perhaps more than ever over this period during the pandemic where we ve had empty grounds.
to say exactly who. i don t think that will be right because especially having said no, and ijust don t think that would be the right thing to do. but there have been numerous ideas and some of them have been vaguely interesting and some of them not at all. and i have obviously. i m like a normal person. i have interests. not unlike everyone else. i mention politics, and you. but what separates you from the rest of us if you have 8 million followers on twitter. i don t know why got that, because of the game, but i have other interests like other people. you know, it s a lot of people. like, i get that. so we see piers morgan sign up for a show that would be streamed in australia and the us thing about politics and talking about sport and a variety of issues so that does not appeal? no, i can have my view about things that i feel are important, which i ve done. climate change for me is really, really important. i ve got four kids. i m not worried about.
to their club, that s ultimately what they want because it might give them a greater chance of success, which is what fans want. but am i comfortable with it? no, not really. gary, we ve talked a lot about football and sport, but it s notjust sport for you at the moment. you ve got a new game show coming up on itv, it s called sitting on a fortune. just give us the elevator pitch. i don t want to build up too much because it s. you never know until it actually airs. but we recorded a few episodes, and it s going to be primetime sunday evenings i believe on itv within about a month or so, a month and a half. it s sitting on a fortune, and i think it s brilliant and the audiences that came to watch it thought it was amazing. it s got feel good factor, people winning loads of money. it s got tension. it s gotjeopardy right from the start. i think it works. but i ve already built it up too much. was it the first time somebody called you and said would you do a saturday, sunday night entert
people like it. but the timing of the games being available? withing about ronaldo and his come back at old trafford that happens at 3pm on saturday afternoon, good for you and this programme for people to wait to see it but it is an anachronism that a modern sport like football with a modern product like the premier league is not letting you see a moment like that at the time? i think that s one of the great wonders of the premier league that they do that because it does not really happen anywhere else. and it s done notjust to make sure that crowds of people still go to football matches all the time, which is you want, full houses are really important to football and i think we ve noticed that perhaps more than ever over this period during the pandemic where we ve had empty grounds. full football stadiums look better on television, so if you started putting every game live on television, the crowds i think would inevitably be sparser. and i think that would diminish from the product