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Meet the Owens on Prime Video brings Michael Owen’s post-football life into focus

Prime Video has spent years selling football fans a peek behind closed doors, dressing rooms, dugouts, boardrooms, all the modern theatre that surrounds the game. That formula has done well for them. It fed the appetite for access, for gossip dressed up as insight, and for the sort of drama that football now packages better than most industries. Now the platform is trying something else. According to Amazon Prime, its latest release is Meet the Owens, a six-part series landing on 28 August 2026 in the UK and Ireland.

This time there is no league table, no title race, no transfer window countdown. The camera has moved away from the matchday grind and towards a family business, with Michael Owen at the centre of it. For many supporters, that alone will stir curiosity. Owen remains a figure who has always felt oddly hard to pin down, famous from a young age, successful almost everywhere he went, and yet somehow distant in the public imagination.

Meet the Owens tracks life at Manor House Stables in Cheshire, the 170-acre operation he built up after football. Produced by Whisper, the series follows Owen, his wife Louise and their four children as they juggle horse racing and ordinary family pressures. That change of scenery matters. Prime Video’s football documentaries usually thrive on jeopardy, on whether a side wins, loses, sacks a manager or stumbles into crisis. Here, the hook looks more domestic, more personal and perhaps more revealing.

Prime Video shifts from football documentary to family docuseries

The trailer suggests a lighter touch than many will expect from a man whose media persona has often come across as guarded. The early clips lean into self-awareness and family humour, then widen into the rhythms of life around the stables. There is a clear effort to present Michael Owen less as former striker and more as husband, father and businessman, with horse racing now placed front and centre in his world.

There is also a strong emphasis on the children’s ambitions. Gemma Owen is shown pursuing horse racing seriously, with the aim of riding at Glorious Goodwood. James wants a future in the family operation while living with a degenerative eye condition. Emily is trying to become the first of the family to go to university, while Jessica has dreams of Olympic showjumping. That gives the series an obvious narrative engine, four separate journeys running alongside the day-to-day demands of maintaining a major equestrian setup.

Michael Owen and Manor House Stables take centre stage

Manor House Stables is no hobby farm dressed up for television. The facility is substantial, with more than 100 horse boxes, an uphill gallop and an equine swimming pool. Owen established it during his playing career and later partnered with Betfair co-founder Andrew Black, which underlines the scale and seriousness of the project. That background may prove vital to whether the series lands. If it captures the pressures of running that kind of operation, it could offer something more substantial than celebrity family television.

There is a challenge too. Football supporters are conditioned to see stories through conflict, tribal feeling and jeopardy. Horse racing, family logistics and personal reinvention ask the audience to engage in another way. Yet there may be a quiet strength in that. Not every sports documentary needs a tunnel speech and a scoreboard. Sometimes the more interesting story begins after the applause has faded.

For Prime Video, Meet the Owens looks like an attempt to widen the sporting documentary brief without abandoning star power. For viewers, it may finally answer a simple question, who exactly is Michael Owen when the football has long since stopped?