Roku, NFL Films and Skydance Sports are teaming on a documentary feature about the NFL Draft.
Once an obscure, bureaucratic ritual involving a conference room full of league officials, the draft has mushroomed into a pop culture event drawing millions of live TV viewers. Long held at New York’s Radio City Music Hall, the draft has adopted a rotating schedule with large outdoor venues hosting it in various cities.
Kevin Costner and Jennifer Garner starred in a 2014 scripted film, Draft Day, in the same milieu.
The new documentary will focus on the three days of the draft and plans call for an annual edition to be produced. It will be designated as a Roku Original, from Skydance Sports and produced by NFL Films for the Roku Channel, a hub for free, ad-supported content wit reach to an estimated 100 million U.S. households.
NFL Films cameras have been given access...
Once an obscure, bureaucratic ritual involving a conference room full of league officials, the draft has mushroomed into a pop culture event drawing millions of live TV viewers. Long held at New York’s Radio City Music Hall, the draft has adopted a rotating schedule with large outdoor venues hosting it in various cities.
Kevin Costner and Jennifer Garner starred in a 2014 scripted film, Draft Day, in the same milieu.
The new documentary will focus on the three days of the draft and plans call for an annual edition to be produced. It will be designated as a Roku Original, from Skydance Sports and produced by NFL Films for the Roku Channel, a hub for free, ad-supported content wit reach to an estimated 100 million U.S. households.
NFL Films cameras have been given access...
- 5/11/2023
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
The Super Bowl-winning 2000 Baltimore Ravens were among the NFL’s greatest defensive teams ever, and now the team is getting 30 for 30 treatment. ESPN Films has kicked off production on a documentary on the squad led by future Hall of Famers Ray Lewis, Rod Woodson and Ed Reed.
The doc centers on one of the most notorious football teams to ever play the game. Few teams in NFL history have boasted, bullied or brandished as much bravado as the 2000 Ravens. The rest of the NFL hated them, but no one could say a thing because few could beat the Ravens on the field. The defense set a league record for fewest points allowed in a 16-game regular season and pitched four shutouts. Luckily for sports fans, their full-throated reign coincided perfectly with the rise of the “reality television” era via ESPN’s Hard Knocks.
That storied defense led the Ravens to...
The doc centers on one of the most notorious football teams to ever play the game. Few teams in NFL history have boasted, bullied or brandished as much bravado as the 2000 Ravens. The rest of the NFL hated them, but no one could say a thing because few could beat the Ravens on the field. The defense set a league record for fewest points allowed in a 16-game regular season and pitched four shutouts. Luckily for sports fans, their full-throated reign coincided perfectly with the rise of the “reality television” era via ESPN’s Hard Knocks.
That storied defense led the Ravens to...
- 5/17/2022
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
In the 1990s, Deion Sanders played both baseball and football for Atlanta’s pro teams, the Braves and Falcons, respectively. An upcoming ESPN “30 for 30” film, “Deion’s Double Play,” will show how Sanders attempted to play for both teams in the same day.
“Deion’s Double Play” chronicles the 24-hour span when Sanders played games for both the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons and Mlb’s Atlanta Braves. In October 1992, Sanders played three games in a span of 24 hours, a game for the Falcons sandwiched in between a pair of Braves playoff games. The games were in different cities, roughly 1,000 miles apart from each other.
Watch an exclusive clip above.
Also Read: NFL Media's Brian Lockhart to Lead Original Content for ESPN+
On Oct. 10, 1992, Sanders played for the Braves in the team’s National League Championship Series matchup against the Pittsburgh Pirates — in Pittsburgh — then flew to Miami as the Falcons...
“Deion’s Double Play” chronicles the 24-hour span when Sanders played games for both the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons and Mlb’s Atlanta Braves. In October 1992, Sanders played three games in a span of 24 hours, a game for the Falcons sandwiched in between a pair of Braves playoff games. The games were in different cities, roughly 1,000 miles apart from each other.
Watch an exclusive clip above.
Also Read: NFL Media's Brian Lockhart to Lead Original Content for ESPN+
On Oct. 10, 1992, Sanders played for the Braves in the team’s National League Championship Series matchup against the Pittsburgh Pirates — in Pittsburgh — then flew to Miami as the Falcons...
- 1/28/2019
- by Tim Baysinger
- The Wrap
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