“Baseball” director Ken Burns says he may add another chapter regarding Chicago Cubs

Celebrated documentarian Ken Burns (“The Civil War,” “The War,” the upcoming “The Vietnam War”) has said that he is looking to add another hour to the documentary series, “Baseball.” The original nine-part series premiered on PBS in 1994 and had an hour added in 2010 (“The Tenth Inning”) that looked at the 1994 work stoppage through 2009 and included the Boston Red Sox winning their 2004 World Series Championship breaking an 86-year drought.

During the offseason, MLB Network regularly airs “Baseball,” and the documentary has gotten new life with the re-airs.

Now Burns previewing his new “Vietnam War” doc told the Television Critics Association  on Sunday, he wants to add an “Eleventh Inning” that would tell the story of the 2016 Chicago Cubs World Series victory. Burns said “I’m sort of obligated.”

He said last year he  would add another hour if the Cubs won the World Series and now that’s it happened, Burns said he’s ready to start.

Burns added that he and collaborator Lynn Novick “have to go and talk and figure out how to go back to it.”

So it appears that Cubs fans will have another thing to celebrate, a new chapter added to “Baseball,” and another way of reliving a magical 2016.

There’s no word as to when the “Eleventh Inning” would begin production or would air, but knowing how much care Burns takes to produce his documentaries, it probably won’t be this year. However, Cubs fans can anticipate adding another DVD to their 2016 Championship memorabilia collection.

[Variety]