Sounds pretty familiar! Phil Jackson & Jeanie Buss will produce a Showtime drama about a family who runs a basketball team. I’m all about anything the Zen Master is involved in. Check out the details & let us know if you’ll be tuning in…
Via SI.com:
Legendary coach Phil Jackson and his fiancee, Lakers vice president Jeanie Buss, will reportedly serve as executive producers for a new cable television series about a family that owns a professional basketball team.
Variety reports that the scripted show is being developed by Showtime and that movie director Ron Shelton will head up the project.
In an interview, Buss said her experiences working with the Lakers as well as managing events, would inform the stories told in the potential series. “We’ve seen so much, the things that go on behind the scenes,” she said. “We go to events and people ask us a lot of questions about what they don’t see. They know the game. They see the game, but they don’t really know what leads up to getting the team on the court.” Most people “don’t know what makes a championship season or what it’s like to go through a losing season.”
The Hollywood Reporter adds additional details.
Set to write, executive produce and, should it go to pilot, direct is Ron Shelton. The sports-centric filmmaker’s most notable movies include Bull Durham, Tin Cup and White Men Can’t Jump.
The series would mark a scripted extension of the network’s already sizable sporting catalog. Showtime recently added 60 Minutes Sports to a roster that already includesInside the NFL, baseball doc series The Franchise, All Access, Jim Rome on Showtime, Showtime Championship Boxing, ShoBox: The New Generation and ShoMMA.
