Netflix’s “Cheer” docuseries had viewers doing backflips (and other basket-toss stunts) when it premiered in January. But fans clamoring for a second season of the “Last Chance U” spinoff, which would have likely stuck with Monica Aldama’s Navarro Bulldogs cheerleading squad, lost their pep when this year’s National Championship in Daytona Beach, Florida, was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
That put series director and executive producer Greg Whiteley in a tough spot as to the possibility of a second season — you know, should Netflix have ordered one, which, to borrow a metaphor from the next “Last Chance U” sport, feels like a slam dunk.
“We’re still trying to figure that out,” Whiteley told TheWrap of a potential “Cheer” Season 2. “There’s enough interest in there being a subsequent season that it’d be silly for us not to explore it. But under the current conditions it’s made it complicated,...
That put series director and executive producer Greg Whiteley in a tough spot as to the possibility of a second season — you know, should Netflix have ordered one, which, to borrow a metaphor from the next “Last Chance U” sport, feels like a slam dunk.
“We’re still trying to figure that out,” Whiteley told TheWrap of a potential “Cheer” Season 2. “There’s enough interest in there being a subsequent season that it’d be silly for us not to explore it. But under the current conditions it’s made it complicated,...
- 7/22/2020
- by Margeaux Sippell and Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
Michael Strahan and Constance Schwartz-Morini’s Smac Entertainment has signed Total Bellas stars and exec producers Brie Bella and Nikki Bella.
The company will represent the pair, whose E! reality series was recently renewed for a sixth season.
This comes after the business signed Power alum Omari Hardwick to its client roster and launched in-house social media management and digital consulting division Smac Digital Management.
In addition to starring and exec producing Total Bellas, the pair wrestle in the WWE, run female apparel line Birdiebee and recently published memoir Incomparable.
Smac Entertainment was founded in 2011 and its roster includes Erin Andrews, Shante Broadus, October Gonzalez, Tony Gonzalez, Michael Griffin, Bryan Hynson, Wiz Khalifa, Curt Menefee, Brian Orakpo and Deion Sanders. Its current projects in production include Back in the Game (CNBC), and ABC’s hit primetime game show The $100,000 Pyramid. Projects in development include an untitled series based on the...
The company will represent the pair, whose E! reality series was recently renewed for a sixth season.
This comes after the business signed Power alum Omari Hardwick to its client roster and launched in-house social media management and digital consulting division Smac Digital Management.
In addition to starring and exec producing Total Bellas, the pair wrestle in the WWE, run female apparel line Birdiebee and recently published memoir Incomparable.
Smac Entertainment was founded in 2011 and its roster includes Erin Andrews, Shante Broadus, October Gonzalez, Tony Gonzalez, Michael Griffin, Bryan Hynson, Wiz Khalifa, Curt Menefee, Brian Orakpo and Deion Sanders. Its current projects in production include Back in the Game (CNBC), and ABC’s hit primetime game show The $100,000 Pyramid. Projects in development include an untitled series based on the...
- 7/8/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Michael Strahan and Constance Schwartz-Morini’s Smac Entertainment has added Power alum Omari Hardwick to its client roster. Additionally, the multi-dimensional talent management, music, branding and production company is announcing the recent launch of Smac Digital Management, an in-house social media management and digital consulting division. Based on the success of their clients in the digital space, Smac said it identified a need for talent and brands to have access to social media management that is capable of understanding and representing their voice.
Hardwick starred for six seasons as James ‘Ghost’ St. Patrick in the critically acclaimed Starz series Power, earning him three consecutive NAACP Image Awards for leading actor in a drama series. In May 2019, he launched his own podcast Poetics, which features in-depth conversations between Hardwick and rap’s biggest stars including Method Man, 50 Cent, Draymond Green, Dave East, Casanova, Big Daddy Kane, among others.
Hardwick...
Hardwick starred for six seasons as James ‘Ghost’ St. Patrick in the critically acclaimed Starz series Power, earning him three consecutive NAACP Image Awards for leading actor in a drama series. In May 2019, he launched his own podcast Poetics, which features in-depth conversations between Hardwick and rap’s biggest stars including Method Man, 50 Cent, Draymond Green, Dave East, Casanova, Big Daddy Kane, among others.
Hardwick...
- 7/1/2020
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Spectrum Originals is making its first tentative move into docuseries ahead of the launch of Manhunt: Deadly Games and is eyeing its first Asian-American series.
Charter Communications’ original content division is prepping the launch of the Lionsgate-produced drama, which tells the story of the wrongly-accused Richard Jewell in this chronicle of the search for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics Bomber, on February 3.
To coincide with this, the broadcaster is set to launch a short-form documentary series, Hunted, to coincide with the drama, which stars Jack Huston, Judith Light, Gethin Anthony, Kelly Jenrette and Cameron Britton.
Katherine Pope, who oversees the content division, told Deadline that it is set to air a six-part, short-form docuseries, produced by digital news brand Attn, consisting of episodes of six minutes to tell the “real story of the Atlanta bombing”. “That’s us dipping on our toes in [to docuseries] and we’d like to do more,” he said.
Charter Communications’ original content division is prepping the launch of the Lionsgate-produced drama, which tells the story of the wrongly-accused Richard Jewell in this chronicle of the search for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics Bomber, on February 3.
To coincide with this, the broadcaster is set to launch a short-form documentary series, Hunted, to coincide with the drama, which stars Jack Huston, Judith Light, Gethin Anthony, Kelly Jenrette and Cameron Britton.
Katherine Pope, who oversees the content division, told Deadline that it is set to air a six-part, short-form docuseries, produced by digital news brand Attn, consisting of episodes of six minutes to tell the “real story of the Atlanta bombing”. “That’s us dipping on our toes in [to docuseries] and we’d like to do more,” he said.
- 1/23/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Quarry co-creator Graham Gordy and his Antiquities director colleague Daniel Campbell have signed on write Courteney Cox’s Last Chance U drama for Spectrum Originals.
Deadline understands that the pair have just delivered an outline to Charter Communications’ original content division for the project, which is inspired by the real-life trials and tribulations of Brittany Wagner, the star of the Netflix college football series.
Gordy, who co-created Cinemax drama Quarry with Michael D. Fuller, has also written on True Detective as well as CBS All Access’ One Dollar and SundanceTV’s Rectify, wrote indie feature Antiquities with Campbell, who directed. The film starred Twilight’s Ashley Greene and The Last Man on Earth’s Mary Steenburgen.
Friends star Cox is set to headline and executive produce the series, which is in development at Spectrum Originals from Michael Strahan and Constance Schwartz-Morini’s Smac Productions. She will play a character based on Wagner,...
Deadline understands that the pair have just delivered an outline to Charter Communications’ original content division for the project, which is inspired by the real-life trials and tribulations of Brittany Wagner, the star of the Netflix college football series.
Gordy, who co-created Cinemax drama Quarry with Michael D. Fuller, has also written on True Detective as well as CBS All Access’ One Dollar and SundanceTV’s Rectify, wrote indie feature Antiquities with Campbell, who directed. The film starred Twilight’s Ashley Greene and The Last Man on Earth’s Mary Steenburgen.
Friends star Cox is set to headline and executive produce the series, which is in development at Spectrum Originals from Michael Strahan and Constance Schwartz-Morini’s Smac Productions. She will play a character based on Wagner,...
- 1/23/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Facebook Watch is giving birth to a second season of 9 Months With Courteney Cox from Ample Entertainment.
The digital platform has renewed the unscripted show for a second run after its first season aired from January, Deadline understands.
The weekly pregnancy docu-series takes an intimate approach to giving viewers raw access of people from all over America of various race, religion, and class as they self-document their 9-month journey of pregnancy. The first season featured a range of stories, from a cancer-stricken mother to pregnant teenagers considering adoption to a 50-year old woman struggling to conceive and more. Friends star Cox will continue to narrate and provide commentary across the series as it enters its next season.
It is the first project to come from the partnership between Ample Entertainment, the company behind Investigation Discovery’s Murder In The Heartland and Discovery’s Cooper’s Treasure, and Cox’s Hopper Productions.
The digital platform has renewed the unscripted show for a second run after its first season aired from January, Deadline understands.
The weekly pregnancy docu-series takes an intimate approach to giving viewers raw access of people from all over America of various race, religion, and class as they self-document their 9-month journey of pregnancy. The first season featured a range of stories, from a cancer-stricken mother to pregnant teenagers considering adoption to a 50-year old woman struggling to conceive and more. Friends star Cox will continue to narrate and provide commentary across the series as it enters its next season.
It is the first project to come from the partnership between Ample Entertainment, the company behind Investigation Discovery’s Murder In The Heartland and Discovery’s Cooper’s Treasure, and Cox’s Hopper Productions.
- 7/29/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
In today’s roundup, Quibi announces development on a “Varsity Blues” series adaptation and Fox releases the trailer for the series premiere of “BH90201.”
First Looks
AMC released the first trailer for the second season of “Lodge 49.” Ex-surfer Dude and his fraternal order will return in the modern day stoner fable August 12.
IFC dropped the “funk’n-new” trailer for the first season of “Sherman’s Show.” The variety sketch show premieres on Wednesday, July 31 at 10 p.m.
Fox released the trailer for the series premiere of “BH90201.” The Beverly Hills gang returns Wednesday, Aug 7 on Fox.
Development Quibi is developing a series based on the classic high school football film “Varsity Blues.” The series is being written by Tripper Clancy, who most recently penned the upcoming comedy film “Stuber.” Anne Fletcher will direct. Mike Tollin and John Gatins will executive produce. The series hails from Peter Guber and Tollin’s Msm and Paramount Television.
First Looks
AMC released the first trailer for the second season of “Lodge 49.” Ex-surfer Dude and his fraternal order will return in the modern day stoner fable August 12.
IFC dropped the “funk’n-new” trailer for the first season of “Sherman’s Show.” The variety sketch show premieres on Wednesday, July 31 at 10 p.m.
Fox released the trailer for the series premiere of “BH90201.” The Beverly Hills gang returns Wednesday, Aug 7 on Fox.
Development Quibi is developing a series based on the classic high school football film “Varsity Blues.” The series is being written by Tripper Clancy, who most recently penned the upcoming comedy film “Stuber.” Anne Fletcher will direct. Mike Tollin and John Gatins will executive produce. The series hails from Peter Guber and Tollin’s Msm and Paramount Television.
- 7/11/2019
- by Dano Nissen
- Variety Film + TV
Here is a wrap up of all the news you need to know from July 11, 2019.
We have the fate of Euphoria, new roles for some TV Fanatic favorites, and more.
First up, Jane the Virgin may be ending, but series star Gina Rodriguez has already lined up her return to the small screen.
The actress will play the President of the United States in Diary of Female President, one of the many shows in the works at Disney+.
Related: Euphoria Season 1 Episode 4: Shook One Pt. II
The series will follow Elena, a 12-year-old, Cuban-American girl as she comes to grips with the ups and downs of middle school while dreaming of becoming the future Potus.
This story will be told in narration form, with flashforwards confirming she did, indeed, become the most powerful woman in America.
Elsewhere, HBO has revealed that Euphoria will return for a second season.
The...
We have the fate of Euphoria, new roles for some TV Fanatic favorites, and more.
First up, Jane the Virgin may be ending, but series star Gina Rodriguez has already lined up her return to the small screen.
The actress will play the President of the United States in Diary of Female President, one of the many shows in the works at Disney+.
Related: Euphoria Season 1 Episode 4: Shook One Pt. II
The series will follow Elena, a 12-year-old, Cuban-American girl as she comes to grips with the ups and downs of middle school while dreaming of becoming the future Potus.
This story will be told in narration form, with flashforwards confirming she did, indeed, become the most powerful woman in America.
Elsewhere, HBO has revealed that Euphoria will return for a second season.
The...
- 7/11/2019
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
Courteney Cox is hitting the gridiron: The Friends alum is set to star in and executive-produce a scripted adaptation of the Netflix football docuseries Last Chance U for Spectrum Originals, our sister site Deadline is reporting.
Last Chance U, which has aired three seasons so far on the streamer, follows football programs at small community colleges that help struggling young athletes get their lives back on track and work towards a possible pro career. In Spectrum’s scripted version, Cox will play a character inspired by Brittany Wagner, an academic advisor at East Mississippi Community College who works to help...
Last Chance U, which has aired three seasons so far on the streamer, follows football programs at small community colleges that help struggling young athletes get their lives back on track and work towards a possible pro career. In Spectrum’s scripted version, Cox will play a character inspired by Brittany Wagner, an academic advisor at East Mississippi Community College who works to help...
- 7/11/2019
- TVLine.com
A scripted series inspired by the Netflix sports docuseries “Last Chance U” is in development at Spectrum Originals, TheWrap has learned.
“Friends” alum Courteney Cox is attached to executive produce and star in the project, which is inspired by the life of Brittany Wagner, the East Mississippi Community College academic advisor featured on the first two seasons of the show.
Michael Strahan will also executive produce via his Smac Entertainment banner.
Also Read: Netflix's Trailer for That 'Last Chance U' Disaster Season Is Finally Here (Video)
In her two seasons on “Last Chance U,” Wagner became a breakout character as the remote junior college’s beloved counselor known for her patient and nurturing ways with the often-unprivileged and troubled young football stars. She has since formed her own consulting company to work with athletes, coaches, school districts and companies, assisting in academic endeavors and life skills.
“Last Chance U” is...
“Friends” alum Courteney Cox is attached to executive produce and star in the project, which is inspired by the life of Brittany Wagner, the East Mississippi Community College academic advisor featured on the first two seasons of the show.
Michael Strahan will also executive produce via his Smac Entertainment banner.
Also Read: Netflix's Trailer for That 'Last Chance U' Disaster Season Is Finally Here (Video)
In her two seasons on “Last Chance U,” Wagner became a breakout character as the remote junior college’s beloved counselor known for her patient and nurturing ways with the often-unprivileged and troubled young football stars. She has since formed her own consulting company to work with athletes, coaches, school districts and companies, assisting in academic endeavors and life skills.
“Last Chance U” is...
- 7/11/2019
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Friends and Cougar Town alumna Courteney Cox is set to headline and executive produce a scripted series in development at Spectrum Originals from Michael Strahan and Constance Schwartz-Morini’s Smac Productions. The untitled Last Chance U project is inspired by the real-life trials and tribulations of Brittany Wagner, played by Cox, the breakout character from the first two seasons of the popular Netflix docuseries Last Chance U.
Wagner is the academic advisor at East Mississippi Community College, a school known for its dominant athletic program that offers young athletes their last hope in achieving pro status. Wagner is committed to motivating struggling athletes to realize their fullest potential, while they push her to realize her own.
Cox is executive producer and host of Facebook Watch’s documentary series Nine Months with Courteney Cox via her Hopper Productions banner. The series received a best Short Form Series nomination for the...
Wagner is the academic advisor at East Mississippi Community College, a school known for its dominant athletic program that offers young athletes their last hope in achieving pro status. Wagner is committed to motivating struggling athletes to realize their fullest potential, while they push her to realize her own.
Cox is executive producer and host of Facebook Watch’s documentary series Nine Months with Courteney Cox via her Hopper Productions banner. The series received a best Short Form Series nomination for the...
- 7/11/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Former "Last Chance U" star Isaiah Wright tells TMZ Sports he's not wasting any time now that he's out of jail -- and still plans to take his football talents to the NFL. 20-year-old Wright was a superstar running back at East Mississippi Community College -- and was one of the breakout stars in the Netflix docuseries about the school's football team. But, his career came to a screeching halt in Sept. 2017 when he was...
- 8/15/2018
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Much as the sports world likes to put emphasis on X factors and MVPs, it’s rarely one individual that makes a disproportionate difference on a team. Especially in a sport like football, with so many moving parts and a constantly changing mechanism of fragile psyches, complex plays, and a bevy of coaching staff members, it’s hard for a single person to rise so far above their peers. Even in the cases when a transformational talent suits up, rarely does a concentrated narrative around a sole player benefit any sort of story around the team itself.
In its third season, the Netflix docuseries “Last Chance U” reinforces that idea alongside another one that it’s explored in plenty of games on the field and countless hours of life decisions off of it: No one’s life story can be told the same way. The series has bolstered that philosophy...
In its third season, the Netflix docuseries “Last Chance U” reinforces that idea alongside another one that it’s explored in plenty of games on the field and countless hours of life decisions off of it: No one’s life story can be told the same way. The series has bolstered that philosophy...
- 7/20/2018
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
If our headline seems like a strange takeaway from an interview with a football coach-turned reality TV star, just watch a few episodes of “Last Chance U” Season 3. And then watch a few more, because Greg Whiteley’s Netflix docuseries is (still) really good, and Icc’s Jason Brown is quite the character.
A few of the non-pigskin-related recurring topics on this just-released run of “Last Chance U” revolve around the Independence Community College head football coach’s luxury possessions, like his beach house back in California and the former Compton quarterback’s numerous Cadillac cars. Now mired in the Middle of Nowhere, Kansas, Brown doesn’t have much more to talk about than some X’s and O’s and those earthly items.
There certainly isn’t any food or recreation there to speak of.
Also Read: 'Last Chance U' Breakout Brittany Wagner on How She Ever...
A few of the non-pigskin-related recurring topics on this just-released run of “Last Chance U” revolve around the Independence Community College head football coach’s luxury possessions, like his beach house back in California and the former Compton quarterback’s numerous Cadillac cars. Now mired in the Middle of Nowhere, Kansas, Brown doesn’t have much more to talk about than some X’s and O’s and those earthly items.
There certainly isn’t any food or recreation there to speak of.
Also Read: 'Last Chance U' Breakout Brittany Wagner on How She Ever...
- 7/20/2018
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
And we’re back in the game.
Netflix dropped the first trailer for the upcoming third season of its sports docuseries “Last Chance U” Tuesday, giving viewers a look at the new rising junior college football program they will be following, the Independence Pirates. And these guys, are uh, well they are a little down on their luck compared to the star players we watched during the show’s first two seasons at East Mississippi Community College.
According to this season’s logline, the quaint town of Independence, Kansas, is the new setting, as the underdog Pirates of Independence Community College have a chance to finally stand tall after more than a decade of losses — or so believes their bigger-than-life head coach, Jason Brown. A sharp-tongued, yet compassionate son of Compton, California, Brown aims to get the Pirates their first conference title in over 30 years, and doesn’t care if...
Netflix dropped the first trailer for the upcoming third season of its sports docuseries “Last Chance U” Tuesday, giving viewers a look at the new rising junior college football program they will be following, the Independence Pirates. And these guys, are uh, well they are a little down on their luck compared to the star players we watched during the show’s first two seasons at East Mississippi Community College.
According to this season’s logline, the quaint town of Independence, Kansas, is the new setting, as the underdog Pirates of Independence Community College have a chance to finally stand tall after more than a decade of losses — or so believes their bigger-than-life head coach, Jason Brown. A sharp-tongued, yet compassionate son of Compton, California, Brown aims to get the Pirates their first conference title in over 30 years, and doesn’t care if...
- 6/19/2018
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
“Last Chance U,” like any other show worth a sophomore season, carefully approaches both past and present. The East Mississippi Community College Lions, the football team profiled in the first season of the Netflix documentary series, are back again, but this new round of stories lives in the shadow of those that came before. This sequel keeps the established skeleton of a fall slate of games, brings back some beloved characters and checks in on departed favorites. The subject may be sports, but this is as TV as TV gets.
The show’s second season, tracking Emcc’s 2016 season, has the added layer of self-awareness. As a town shy of 1,000 people, director Greg Whiteley’s Netflix series has now created an identity for Scooba, Mississippi, one that not all its citizens are particularly happy with. Football players are never just football players, especially at any level above Pop Warner. But...
The show’s second season, tracking Emcc’s 2016 season, has the added layer of self-awareness. As a town shy of 1,000 people, director Greg Whiteley’s Netflix series has now created an identity for Scooba, Mississippi, one that not all its citizens are particularly happy with. Football players are never just football players, especially at any level above Pop Warner. But...
- 7/21/2017
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Brittany Wagner is done handing out pencils at East Mississippi Community College. These days, the “Last Chance U” breakout star and former Emcc counselor is for-hire as part of her own consulting company on a contract basis by athletes, coaches, school districts and companies to assist in academic endeavors and life skills, among a growing menu of services. “My platform is so much bigger now with the show, and I just felt a pull to do something,” Wagner said, while explaining her exodus to TheWrap in an interview ahead of “Last Chance U’s” Season 2 premiere. Before bailing for life as an entrepreneur,...
- 7/20/2017
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
While Netflix hasn’t yet renewed “Stranger Things” (and while we’re at it, how about another season of “Last Chance U” with more Brittany Wagner?) they certainly aren’t shy about promoting the hit summer series, getting the show’s writers, creators, and directors, The Duffer Brothers, talking to the media. And in the process, we’ve learned much […]
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- 8/9/2016
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
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