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Icons of Football

2023 · 2 seasons

Nostalgic, affectionate profiles of sporting lives, mixing archive footage and talking heads into a gentle, human portrait of fame and its aftermath.

Genres
Documentary
Overview
The incredible stories of how some of Scottish football’s biggest stars made their names on the pitch... and off it.
How it feels
Warm, earnest and melancholic. Measured and easy to follow.
About
Sport, ambition, identity, class
Content
Mild language. No violence, gore or sexual content.
Note
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How it feels

Written by AI. It can be wrong.

Full breakdown
Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
Places
Era
contemporary
Audience
family
Form
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror0
Humour4
Realism10
Romance1
Tension2
Darkness2
Complexity3
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
documentary
Created by
Eamonn Donohoe, Martin Conaghan
Starring
KT Tunstall, Richard Gough, Steve Archibald, Alex Ferguson, Gary Lineker, Irvine Welsh, Garth Crooks, Willie Miller
Length
2 seasons, 12 episodes, 29 min each
Network
BBC Scotland
Country
United Kingdom
Languages
English

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