Peyton, Eli Deal Means Even More ‘Manning’ MegaCasts Making Their Way To ESPN
Wednesday, February 9, 2022 at 06:21PM By Barry Janoff
February 9, 2022: Stating that “Monday Night Football with Peyton and Eli rewrote our record books for alternate telecasts,” ESPN and The Walt Disney Company have signed an expanded agreement with Peyton Manning and his Omaha Productions company,
The new pact — buildng on the deal that launched with Monday Night Football with Peyton and Eli this past NFL season — will add a fourth year through 2024 season for Monday Night Football with Peyton and Eli, featuring a ten-game annual slate of alternative productions to ESPN’s traditional Monday Night Football telecast.
In addition, the deal includes alternative presentations with other hosts for UFC, college football and golf to be produced by Omaha Productions in collaboration with ESPN.
Omaha Production and Peyton Manning’s alliance with ESPN and Disney formally began in 2019 with the launch of Peyton’s Places on ESPN+.
“We couldn’t be more proud of Monday Night Football with Peyton and Eli and the partnership we’ve developed with Peyton, Eli and the team at Omaha Productions,” Jimmy Pitaro, chairman, ESPN and Sports Content, said via the network.
“This new agreement allows us to deepen our relationship and explore original concepts to spread that magic to other sports and events. Ultimately, this will help grow our audience by providing fans with even more creative options that they crave.”
Peyton and Eli have already expanded their presence within Disney, doing a promo spot for Turning Red, a Disney-Pixar animated movie that begins streaming March 11 on Disney+.
Peyton and Eli also appeared together in a spot for This Is SportsCenter, “Wet Willy,” along with their parents, in 2009.
Omaha Productions executive produced ESPN’s Monday Night Football with Peyton and Eli and also produces NFL Honors and ESPN+’s "Places" series, currently featuring Peyton Manning, Eli Manning, Abby Wambach, Vince Carter, David Ortiz and Ronda Rousey.
Overall, the nine episodes this past season averaged 1.6 million viewers.
ESPN said that Monday Night Football with Peyton and Eli “rewrote ESPN’s record books for alternate telecasts (and) holds ESPN’s record for the nine most-watched alternate telecasts (which include more than 60 such telecasts since 2014).
The show’s regular season high came with 1.96 million viewers (New York Giants at Kansas City, Week 8) and also hit 1.9 million on two other occasions (Philadelphia at Dallas, Week 3; and Detroit at Green Bay, Week 2).
“I’ve always loved talking football with my brother, and it was even more fun to do it while watching ESPN’s Monday Night Football,” Peyton Manning said via ESPN.
“Eli and I are excited to sign on for another season, and the entire Omaha team is looking forward to producing MegaCasts that celebrate other sports.”
Even without ESPN, Peyton and Eli will be visible throughout Super Bowl LVI Sunday.
Peyton and Eli appear together in Pepsi-Frito-Lay’s "Road to Super Bowl" commercial and a new spot for Caesars Sportsbook.
Peyton also appears in spots for the NFL ("Bring Down The House") and Michelob Ultra’s "Welcome To Superior Bowl."
Eli will be tending bar in New York via an alliance with Stella Artois, as seen in “Substitutes.”
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