Matthew Berry reportedly launching daily talk show on Roku in former ‘The Rich Eisen Show’ slot

Matthew Berry’s search for a new television home ended somewhere other than Bristol.

Five months after Awful Announcing first reported that Berry was unlikely to return to Football Night in America as NBC rebuilt its Sunday studio show around Mike Tomlin, and less than a month after Berry told OutKick he’d held “multiple conversations” with ESPN’s top brass about a potential reunion, the longtime fantasy football analyst has landed a daily show on the Roku Channel, according to The Athletic’s Andrew Marchand.

The show, Pregame with Matthew Berry, will run for two hours every weekday beginning Sept. 28, occupying the noon-to-2 p.m. ET window that belonged to Rich Eisen before Eisen took his show to ESPN’s app and Disney+ last year. Berry’s company, Fantasy Life, will produce it, which Marchand likened to Pat McAfee’s arrangement with ESPN, where McAfee’s own operation produces his daily show for the network. While fantasy will remain a pillar of the year-round program, Berry is also expected to weigh in on the broader sports landscape alongside guests and analysts, all from a set Roku and Fantasy Life are branding “Matthew Berry’s Bar.”

Berry inherits a Roku Channel sports lineup that has thinned out over the past year. Eisen’s move to ESPN’s app and Disney+ took the platform’s signature daily show off its schedule, and the Sunday morning MLB broadcasts Roku streamed throughout 2025 were gone by the start of the 2026 season, leaving its sports presence resting mostly on the apps it hosts for the major rights holders. The ground could shift again soon, too. Fox agreed in June to acquire Roku, and if regulators approve the sale, Berry’s new show would end up under the same corporate umbrella as Fox Sports.

A Fox-owned home would be a long way from where Berry was angling to land just a month ago. During his August sit-down with OutKick, Berry held up McAfee as the template for talent going out on their own, pointing to the arrangements ESPN had also struck with Eisen and others, though he stressed nothing with the network was “imminent.”

“You’d be crazy not to call up ESPN and be like, ‘Hey, any interest here?'” Berry said at the time.

ESPN, apparently, had some interest, just not enough. Marchand reported that Berry and ESPN held talks about a return but never reached an agreement, clearing the way for Roku. A deal would have brought Berry back to the network he walked away from in 2022 after 15 years, a split driven in part by ESPN wanting him to shut down Fantasy Life if he wanted to stay.

NBC, of course, had no such hang-ups. After signing Berry in August 2022, the network gave him a contributor role on Football Night in America, Peacock shows in Fantasy Football Happy Hour and the Sunday-morning Fantasy Football Pregame, a syndicated hour of that Sunday show on NBC-owned stations in 11 markets and, starting in 2024, a formal partnership between Fantasy Life and Rotoworld. The run peaked this past February, when Berry became the first fantasy analyst to appear on a Super Bowl pregame broadcast.

Months later, as Awful Announcing first reported, Berry got caught up in NBC’s teardown of Football Night in America, one that had already seen Tony Dungy confirm his exit and Rodney Harrison and Jac Collinsworth trending toward the same fate as the network pivoted to a leaner set that would travel to a game site each week. The rebuilt show centers on Tomlin, joined by Maria Taylor, Jason Garrett, Devin McCourty, and Mike Florio. At the time, Berry’s contract hadn’t yet run out, and sources indicated talks about a scaled-back NBC role, one without weekly Football Night appearances, were still alive, but nothing ever materialized.

The first piece of Berry’s NBC portfolio to find a new home was Happy Hour. In early August, Audacy took over exclusive audio sales and distribution for the podcast, which Fantasy Life co-produces and which streams in video form on Berry’s YouTube channel, with new episodes dropping every weekday from Aug. 3 through the Super Bowl. Fantasy Life has also partnered with Prime Video to distribute its video podcasts.

Once Pregame launches, Berry will be hosting two weekday shows under the Fantasy Life banner through the end of the NFL season, with Happy Hour episodes coming daily through the Super Bowl. It’s a heavy slate for someone who retired his Love/Hate column last August after 25 years, citing the toll it took and a desire to focus more on life outside of football. How Berry balances both shows, and whether either one gives way once football season ends, remains to be seen.

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