Awful Announcing
The first film in the series, "The Pence Method," explores Hunter Pence's attempt to reinvent his swing in winter ball in the Dominican Republic. It premieres Saturday on FS1.
Produced by famed extreme sports filmmakers Teton Gravity Research, this film will premiere on HBO Nov. 26.
All Around will premiere August 6 and will follow U.S. gymnast Morgan Hurd, Russian gymnast Angelina Melnikova and Chinese gymnast Chen Yile for a year.
"The Heritage: Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism," a 2018 release from Beacon Press, is now going to be made into a docuseries by Maverick TV. Sacha Jenkins (Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men, Burn Motherf*cker Burn) is attached as executive producer.
This year's Hard Knocks will premiere on HBO Tuesday, August 6.
This new SNY documentary will premiere on the network July 3.
"100%: Julian Edelman" will premiere on Showtime on June 28 at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
"Q Ball" follows the lives of the San Quentin Warriors, a basketball team inside California’s San Quentin State Prison.
"At The Heart Of Gold" is a valuable watch both for those who have followed the Nassar scandal closely and those who haven't, providing new perspectives on why this happened in gymnastics and how Nassar got away with it for so long.
Diego Maradona comes from prominent director Asif Kapadia, known for Amy and Senna.
"It's this web of Florida fuckery with all these crazy characters, like out of a Carl Hiaasen novel or Elmore Leonard or like a Coen brothers botched heist movie, you know? And all of these baseball people, like Ryan Braun, and Manny [Ramirez], and Alex, they all just kind of get caught up in this Florida fuckery."
The series will premiere on ESPN in the summer of 2020, and on Netflix that fall.
Kristopher Belman, known for 2008 LeBron documentary More Than A Game, will direct the series.
Jeff and Michael Zimbalist have produced a terrific documentary looking at the Americans who transformed surfing in the 90s.
Kelly Slater, Rob Machado, Shane Dorian, Taylor Knox and others are featured in this HBO documentary on how surfing changed in the 1990s.
