ESPN viewers who thrill to mixed-marital arts fights are about to get something that offers a different view of the sport.
Professional Fighters League, the Mma league that appears on ESPN under typical circumstances, has launched Pfl Studios, a unit aimed at producing new kinds of content for TV as well as digital and mobile venues. ESPN has agreed to air four original series in 2020, including a six-episode docuseries on Mma legend and current Pfl broadcaster Randy Couture.
“We have established our live-event presentation, so now we are focused on expanding our storytelling with original content stories about Mma, about the Pfl, and of course, about our fighters,” says Peter Murray, the league’s CEO, in an interview. “We believe it’s the right time to do it. Mma has experienced explosive growth over the past two years, and it has yet to reach its peak.”
The Pfl has scuttled its 2020 season,...
Professional Fighters League, the Mma league that appears on ESPN under typical circumstances, has launched Pfl Studios, a unit aimed at producing new kinds of content for TV as well as digital and mobile venues. ESPN has agreed to air four original series in 2020, including a six-episode docuseries on Mma legend and current Pfl broadcaster Randy Couture.
“We have established our live-event presentation, so now we are focused on expanding our storytelling with original content stories about Mma, about the Pfl, and of course, about our fighters,” says Peter Murray, the league’s CEO, in an interview. “We believe it’s the right time to do it. Mma has experienced explosive growth over the past two years, and it has yet to reach its peak.”
The Pfl has scuttled its 2020 season,...
- 6/8/2020
- by Brian Steinberg
- Variety Film + TV
In today’s roundup, “Luke Cage” Season 2 released a trailer and TBS renews animated comedy “Final Space”
Casting
Osy Ikhile has been cast as a series regular on the upcoming Amazon series “The Feed,” Variety has learned exclusively. Ikhile’s past credits include the critically-acclaimed “Black Mirror” episode “USS Callister” and the mini-series “Childhood’s End.” He has also appeared in films like “The Legend of Tarzan” and “In the Heart of the Sea.” He is repped by Thruline Entertainment and the Curtis Brown Group.
Dates
HBO will premiere the documentary “Stolen Daughters: Kidnapped by Boko Haram” in fall 2018. The documentary follows the stories of 276 Nigerian school girls who were kidnapped by Boko Haram, an Islamic extremist insurgent movement, in 2014 from a school in Chibok, Northern Nigeria and hidden in the Sambisa forest for three years. The announcement comes on Monday, the one-year anniversary of 82 of the girls’ releases.
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Casting
Osy Ikhile has been cast as a series regular on the upcoming Amazon series “The Feed,” Variety has learned exclusively. Ikhile’s past credits include the critically-acclaimed “Black Mirror” episode “USS Callister” and the mini-series “Childhood’s End.” He has also appeared in films like “The Legend of Tarzan” and “In the Heart of the Sea.” He is repped by Thruline Entertainment and the Curtis Brown Group.
Dates
HBO will premiere the documentary “Stolen Daughters: Kidnapped by Boko Haram” in fall 2018. The documentary follows the stories of 276 Nigerian school girls who were kidnapped by Boko Haram, an Islamic extremist insurgent movement, in 2014 from a school in Chibok, Northern Nigeria and hidden in the Sambisa forest for three years. The announcement comes on Monday, the one-year anniversary of 82 of the girls’ releases.
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- 5/7/2018
- by Christi Carras
- Variety Film + TV
Going on three months after the ballyhooed launch of Fox Sports 1, Fox Sports has solidified its management team. David Nathanson has been upped to the newly created post of General Manager and COO at Fox Sports 1 and Fox Sports 2, and Bill Wanger has added Content Strategy to his title as Evp Programming and Research at Fox Sports. Three others also are moving up. Here’s the release: Los Angeles – In a reorganization of Fox Sports’ executive management structure, veteran executives David Nathanson and Bill Wanger have assumed new responsibilities, effective immediately. Nathanson has been appointed General Manager & Chief Operating Officer, Fox Sports 1 and Fox Sports 2, a newly created position, while Wanger, Fox Sports’ Executive Vice President, Programming & Research is now Executive Vice President, Programming, Research & Content Strategy. The announcement was made today by Fox Sports President, Chief Operating Officer & Executive Producer Eric Shanks, to whom both Nathanson and Wanger report.
- 12/6/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
NEW YORK -- Fox Sports said Tuesday that it has promoted FSN veteran George Greenberg to executive vp programming and production.
Greenberg's role will be similar to what he has done at FSN, but now he will oversee the Fox Sports brand by working with talent, reviewing broadcasts and controlling quality. He will report to Fox Sports Television Group chairman and CEO David Hill and Fox Sports president Ed Goren.
Greenberg will remain at FSN as well in the job he's held since May 2003, continuing to report to Fox National Cable Sports Networks president Bob Thompson.
At FSN, he oversees "The Best Damn Sports Show Period," "FSN Pro Football Review", "Totally Football", "CMI: Chris Myers Interviews", "Final Score" and such other network properties as boxing, mixed martial arts and the International Fight League.
Before becoming executive vp at FSN, Greenberg served as executive producer of "Best Damn" since its July 2001 premiere. He was executive vp marketing at Fox Broadcasting Co. from February 1997 to December 2000 and senior vp/creative director at Fox Sports beginning in May 1994, leading the team that built the network's graphic look.
Greenberg's role will be similar to what he has done at FSN, but now he will oversee the Fox Sports brand by working with talent, reviewing broadcasts and controlling quality. He will report to Fox Sports Television Group chairman and CEO David Hill and Fox Sports president Ed Goren.
Greenberg will remain at FSN as well in the job he's held since May 2003, continuing to report to Fox National Cable Sports Networks president Bob Thompson.
At FSN, he oversees "The Best Damn Sports Show Period," "FSN Pro Football Review", "Totally Football", "CMI: Chris Myers Interviews", "Final Score" and such other network properties as boxing, mixed martial arts and the International Fight League.
Before becoming executive vp at FSN, Greenberg served as executive producer of "Best Damn" since its July 2001 premiere. He was executive vp marketing at Fox Broadcasting Co. from February 1997 to December 2000 and senior vp/creative director at Fox Sports beginning in May 1994, leading the team that built the network's graphic look.
- 2/28/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The HorseTV Channel is bringing bits and bridles to broadband with the launch of its online channel dubbed HorseTV Access. In conjunction with the network's coverage of the 2006 International Equestrian Federation World Equestrian Games beginning Monday, the channel will provide a direct feed from the games held in Aachen, Germany. Through its various camera angles, it is intended to give viewers the feeling of being at the event. HorseTV Channel chairman and CEO George Greenberg described the new broadband channel as providing a television-quality experience that will serve to complement the current cable and satellite service.
- 8/29/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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