Editing Pay-per-view (section)

===United Kingdom and Ireland===
Viewers in the [[United Kingdom]] and [[Ireland]] can access pay-per-view via satellite, cable and [[IPTV|over-the-internet]] television services, mainly for films, boxing, [[mixed martial arts]] and American [[professional wrestling]] via services such as [[Sky Box Office]] and [[TNT Sports Box Office]]. Recent years has seen the number of pay-per-view boxing events significantly increase and currently all of the UK's top fights are only available via pay-per-view. Broadcasters (most notably [[PremPlus]]) have abandoned their aspirations to introduce PPV into other sports markets following poor interest from the public.

In October 2020 during the [[2020–21 Premier League|2020-21 season]], the [[Premier League]] experimented with PPV telecasts of football matches not selected for broadcasts by its main rightsholders (which are usually [[Blackout (broadcasting)|blacked out]] 3:00&nbsp;p.m. kickoffs, amid the [[COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom]], which prevented any attendance of the matches). However, the matches proved unpopular, with team supporters' groups urging fans to make donations to charity instead, and the Premier League announcing that it would allocate the extra matches among its existing rightsholders (TNT and Sky, as well as [[Amazon Prime Video]] and [[BBC Sport]], with some on free-to-air TV) through at least the end of 2020, as it had done during the conclusion of the previous season.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Plan will drive fans to illegal streams|language=en-GB|work=BBC Sport|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/54491180|access-date=2020-10-12}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=BBC and Amazon to air games as Premier League ends PPV experiment|url=https://www.sportspromedia.com/news/premier-league-ppv-scrapped-bbc-amazon-sky-bt|access-date=2020-11-18|website=SportsPro Media|date=13 November 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Kilpatrick|first=Dan|date=2020-10-20|title=Tottenham fans join support for food banks over Premier League PPVs|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/tottenham-news-charity-not-ppv-premier-league-sky-sports-bt-sport-a4572281.html|access-date=2020-11-18|website=www.standard.co.uk|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Collings|first=Simon|date=2020-10-26|title=Arsenal fans raise £34k for Islington Giving charity in PPV boycott|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/arsenal-fc-news-premier-league-ppv-boycott-charity-islington-giving-a4572988.html|access-date=2020-11-18|website=www.standard.co.uk|language=en}}</ref>