Netflix is ready to play ball with Major League Baseball.
For the first time, the streamer will follow an MLB team — in this case, the Boston Red Sox — over the course of a full season. Netflix says it will have unprecedented access to players, coaches and executives throughout the 2024 season for a docuseries that will debut in 2025.
A second project is in the works with the Red Sox that’s expected to stream on Netflix later this year. The untitled documentary will look back at the historic 2004 Red Sox season, which culminated with one of the greatest comebacks in sports history and the franchise’s first World Series title in 86 years. The series will feature new, exclusive interviews with key players and figures from the team that broke one of baseball’s longest curses where the franchise has now won more World Series (four) in the last 20 years than any Club in MLB.
For the first time, the streamer will follow an MLB team — in this case, the Boston Red Sox — over the course of a full season. Netflix says it will have unprecedented access to players, coaches and executives throughout the 2024 season for a docuseries that will debut in 2025.
A second project is in the works with the Red Sox that’s expected to stream on Netflix later this year. The untitled documentary will look back at the historic 2004 Red Sox season, which culminated with one of the greatest comebacks in sports history and the franchise’s first World Series title in 86 years. The series will feature new, exclusive interviews with key players and figures from the team that broke one of baseball’s longest curses where the franchise has now won more World Series (four) in the last 20 years than any Club in MLB.
- 2/7/2024
- by Lynette Rice
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: HBO and Words + Pictures have launched production on a documentary about Barry Bonds, one of baseball’s greatest players – and one of the most polarizing figures in all professional sport.
The untitled Bonds film is being directed by Keith McQuirter (By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem) and executive produced by Oscar winner Ezra Edelman (O.J.: Made in America) and Connor Schell and Libby Geist, creators of the Emmy-winning series 30 for 30 and EPs of the megahit docuseries The Last Dance.
“The untitled HBO Sports Documentary will tell the story of Barry Bonds, baseball’s single-season and all-time home run king, from his beginnings as the son of All-Star Bobby Bonds, and godson of the iconic Willie Mays, all the way up to his meteoric rise in the 1990s and 2000s,” notes a release about the project. “Using archival footage and original interviews, the film will...
The untitled Bonds film is being directed by Keith McQuirter (By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem) and executive produced by Oscar winner Ezra Edelman (O.J.: Made in America) and Connor Schell and Libby Geist, creators of the Emmy-winning series 30 for 30 and EPs of the megahit docuseries The Last Dance.
“The untitled HBO Sports Documentary will tell the story of Barry Bonds, baseball’s single-season and all-time home run king, from his beginnings as the son of All-Star Bobby Bonds, and godson of the iconic Willie Mays, all the way up to his meteoric rise in the 1990s and 2000s,” notes a release about the project. “Using archival footage and original interviews, the film will...
- 5/31/2023
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
The History Channel has greenlit a range of new docuseries and documentaries that are produced by Hollywood stars like Morgan Freeman, Bradley Cooper, and Kevin Costner.
The announcements were made as part of a larger A+E Networks slate reveal ahead of its 2023-2024 upfronts presentation. Additional projects hail from producers Michael Imperioli and Dan Aykroyd.
“Our goal within this media evolution is to meet audiences wherever and however they consume content, by working with great worldwide storytellers to develop and execute their vision,” said Paul Buccieri, president and Chairman of A+E Networks Group. “Over the last four years, we have been on a journey to expand our production capabilities in both scripted and factual, and we’ve established key relationships in the talent management space as well as continued creating compelling content across our brands to further meet the needs of our valued partners and viewers.”
Costner will host...
The announcements were made as part of a larger A+E Networks slate reveal ahead of its 2023-2024 upfronts presentation. Additional projects hail from producers Michael Imperioli and Dan Aykroyd.
“Our goal within this media evolution is to meet audiences wherever and however they consume content, by working with great worldwide storytellers to develop and execute their vision,” said Paul Buccieri, president and Chairman of A+E Networks Group. “Over the last four years, we have been on a journey to expand our production capabilities in both scripted and factual, and we’ve established key relationships in the talent management space as well as continued creating compelling content across our brands to further meet the needs of our valued partners and viewers.”
Costner will host...
- 3/8/2023
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
The History Channel has unveiled its latest programming slate, featuring documentaries from top talent including Kevin Costner and Bradley Cooper.
The network has ordered five new projects as part of an initiative to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States in 2026.
These include Kevin Costner’s The West, Fdr from Cooper, Black Patriots: The 761st Battalion from Freeman, Five Families from Imperioli and The Unbelievable with Dan Aykroyd.
It comes as parent company A+E Networks is hosting its annual Upfronts event to advertisers. These projects join a slew of series at Lifetime and A&e.
Kevin Costner’s The West (w/t) is an eight-part series hosted by the Yellowstone star. It will explore the American frontier from the literal trailblazers to the law enforcers and the bloody battles for both land and freedom as well as explore how the stories of The West continue to impact the nation today.
The network has ordered five new projects as part of an initiative to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States in 2026.
These include Kevin Costner’s The West, Fdr from Cooper, Black Patriots: The 761st Battalion from Freeman, Five Families from Imperioli and The Unbelievable with Dan Aykroyd.
It comes as parent company A+E Networks is hosting its annual Upfronts event to advertisers. These projects join a slew of series at Lifetime and A&e.
Kevin Costner’s The West (w/t) is an eight-part series hosted by the Yellowstone star. It will explore the American frontier from the literal trailblazers to the law enforcers and the bloody battles for both land and freedom as well as explore how the stories of The West continue to impact the nation today.
- 3/8/2023
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Crimes involving art are inherently captivating. Even in its most basic form, the theft of a priceless work of art is a singular draw, regardless of any person or group’s reason for swiping it. (That appeal almost singlehandedly catapulted “Lupin” to “TV phenomenon” status earlier this year.)
But what’s kept the events of March 18, 1990 in the public fascination is everything about it that still makes no sense. “This is a Robbery” outlines the circumstances surrounding the pilfering of 13 items from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston on that legendary day-after-St.-Patrick’s grab. Collectively, it was a nine-figure haul of irreplaceable works from legendary artists like Rembrandt, Vermeer, Manet, and Degas.
Despite the built-in chaos of the event itself — most notably: a combination of clear operation planning and a seemingly random sacking of paintings and relatively worthless objects — director Colin Barnicle’s four-part series is a fairly...
But what’s kept the events of March 18, 1990 in the public fascination is everything about it that still makes no sense. “This is a Robbery” outlines the circumstances surrounding the pilfering of 13 items from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston on that legendary day-after-St.-Patrick’s grab. Collectively, it was a nine-figure haul of irreplaceable works from legendary artists like Rembrandt, Vermeer, Manet, and Degas.
Despite the built-in chaos of the event itself — most notably: a combination of clear operation planning and a seemingly random sacking of paintings and relatively worthless objects — director Colin Barnicle’s four-part series is a fairly...
- 4/7/2021
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
The 1990 robbery of Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum remains a part of that institution’s life to this day, as empty frames hang on the wall marking the spots from which paintings were removed. The case remains unsolved — vexingly so. The items stolen, including works by Vermeer and Rembrandt, were cut out of their frames and have never materialized on the black market, meaning they exist in a kind of limbo, presumably somewhere but unaccountable. They’re ghost frames on the wall, missing pieces of art history on a criminal’s wall somewhere, or being used to bolster a deal, or kept unseen in a vault.
That’s what’s at stake in “This Is a Robbery,” a Netflix documentary series directed by Colin Barnicle — not the possibility of solving the case, which authorities have been trying to do for many years, but the question of the ends to...
That’s what’s at stake in “This Is a Robbery,” a Netflix documentary series directed by Colin Barnicle — not the possibility of solving the case, which authorities have been trying to do for many years, but the question of the ends to...
- 4/6/2021
- by Daniel D'Addario
- Variety Film + TV
The biggest art heist ever pulled off. On Thursday, March 11, Netflix released the first trailer for its latest documentary series, titled This Is a Robbery: The World's Biggest Art Heist. The four-part series, which premieres Wednesday, April 7 on the streaming service, takes a closer look at the 1990 robbery of Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Per Netflix, "Over St. Patrick's Day weekend in 1990, legendary works by Rembrandt, Vermeer and others worth over half a billion dollars today were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. This four-part documentary series from director Colin Barnicle covers the leads, dead ends, lucky breaks and speculations that characterized the...
- 3/12/2021
- E! Online
In today’s TV news roundup, MTV announced when the 2021 “MTV Movie & TV Awards” will air, and Netflix revealed the premiere date for the third season of “Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous.”
Dates
MTV announced that the 2021 “MTV Movie & TV Awards” will air live from Los Angeles on May 16. Following that event, MTV will air “Movie & TV Awards: Unscripted” (working title) on May 17, which will recognize the best moments from reality shows and celebrate everything reality TV. Hosts, honorees, performers, presenters and additional details for both events will be announced at a later date. Sponsors of the two-night celebration include The Real Cost (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) and Sonic.
Netflix announced that “Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous” will return for a third season on May 21 with 10 new episodes. Inspired by the “Jurassic World” franchise, the animated series follows six teenagers who were chosen for a once-in-a-lifetime experience at Camp Cretaceous,...
Dates
MTV announced that the 2021 “MTV Movie & TV Awards” will air live from Los Angeles on May 16. Following that event, MTV will air “Movie & TV Awards: Unscripted” (working title) on May 17, which will recognize the best moments from reality shows and celebrate everything reality TV. Hosts, honorees, performers, presenters and additional details for both events will be announced at a later date. Sponsors of the two-night celebration include The Real Cost (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) and Sonic.
Netflix announced that “Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous” will return for a third season on May 21 with 10 new episodes. Inspired by the “Jurassic World” franchise, the animated series follows six teenagers who were chosen for a once-in-a-lifetime experience at Camp Cretaceous,...
- 3/11/2021
- by Antonio Ferme
- Variety Film + TV
Tribeca Film’s Jane Rosenthal and Berry Welsh, whose recent work includes The Irishman and When They See Us, have teamed up with sports producer Colin Barnicle and Nick Barnicle for a Netflix art heist docuseries This Is A Robbery.
Directed by Colin Barnicle, the four-part Netflix original chronicles the world’s biggest art theft. On March 18, 1990, 13 works of art were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston in the early hours. Guards admitted two men posing as police officers responding to a disturbance call, and the thieves tied the guards up and looted the museum over the next hour. Over 30 years later, the crime remains unsolved.
This Is A Robbery, which will hit the streamer on Apr. 7th, marks the Barnicle brothers’ first foray into true crime. Colin and Nick Barnicle are best known for their sports projects including UFC 25 Years in Short, The Glove and Glory Days.
Directed by Colin Barnicle, the four-part Netflix original chronicles the world’s biggest art theft. On March 18, 1990, 13 works of art were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston in the early hours. Guards admitted two men posing as police officers responding to a disturbance call, and the thieves tied the guards up and looted the museum over the next hour. Over 30 years later, the crime remains unsolved.
This Is A Robbery, which will hit the streamer on Apr. 7th, marks the Barnicle brothers’ first foray into true crime. Colin and Nick Barnicle are best known for their sports projects including UFC 25 Years in Short, The Glove and Glory Days.
- 3/11/2021
- by Alexandra Del Rosario
- Deadline Film + TV
Ufc (Ultimate Fighting Championship) is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a series of documentary shorts about the organization, its history and the fascinating characters that have passed through it.
Ufc 25 Years in Short is a 25-part series with installations that will tackle everything from the disputed beginnings of the octagon to the personal journeys of stars like Chuck Liddell and Ronda Rousey. The shorts are helmed by award-winning directors and producers, including several alums of ESPN’s 30 for 30 film series, such as Nick and Colin Barnicle, Adam Condal, Jason Hehir, Rory Karpf and Matt Ogens, among others....
Ufc 25 Years in Short is a 25-part series with installations that will tackle everything from the disputed beginnings of the octagon to the personal journeys of stars like Chuck Liddell and Ronda Rousey. The shorts are helmed by award-winning directors and producers, including several alums of ESPN’s 30 for 30 film series, such as Nick and Colin Barnicle, Adam Condal, Jason Hehir, Rory Karpf and Matt Ogens, among others....
- 8/23/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Ufc (Ultimate Fighting Championship) is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a series of documentary shorts about the organization, its history and the fascinating characters that have passed through it.
Ufc 25 Years in Short is a 25-part series with installations that will tackle everything from the disputed beginnings of the octagon to the personal journeys of stars like Chuck Liddell and Ronda Rousey. The shorts are helmed by award-winning directors and producers, including several alums of ESPN’s 30 for 30 film series, such as Nick and Colin Barnicle, Adam Condal, Jason Hehir, Rory Karpf and Matt Ogens, among others....
Ufc 25 Years in Short is a 25-part series with installations that will tackle everything from the disputed beginnings of the octagon to the personal journeys of stars like Chuck Liddell and Ronda Rousey. The shorts are helmed by award-winning directors and producers, including several alums of ESPN’s 30 for 30 film series, such as Nick and Colin Barnicle, Adam Condal, Jason Hehir, Rory Karpf and Matt Ogens, among others....
- 8/23/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A version of this story first appeared in the August 7 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. To receive the magazine, click here to subscribe. Legendary Pictures is going small. The studio of Godzilla and Pacific Rim quietly is backing low-budget sports documentaries and has inked a deal with Prospect Productions, an Emmy-winning banner whose credits include Espn's 30 for 30 and Sunday Night Baseball. Legendary chairman and CEO Thomas Tull, an ardent sports fan, set a meeting with Prospect founders Colin Barnicle and Nick Barnicle and producer Jeff Siegel after seeing their 30 for 30 short Holy
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- 7/29/2015
- by Tatiana Siegel
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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