USA Network is doing more than debuting a new show on June 29. It's introducing viewers to the Necessary Roughness League!
Indeed, the upcoming dramedy - which stars Callie Thorne as a newly-separated therapist who takes on a bevy of professional athletes as clients - has gone out of its way to legitimize the sports side of the series. That's what stood out to me the most during a set visit this week.
Inside a warehouse in Atlanta, workers have built a locker room that rivals any in the NFL. There are four-walled coaching offices (where we watched Andrea Anders film her first scene), playbooks and posters (above) belonging to the New York Hawks (the team for which Mehcad Brooks plays wide receiver) and lockers with name plates that include references to the show's staff. (Creator/producer Craig Shapiro plays middle linebacker.)
But that's not all: the show has also constructed a fictional four-team league,...
Indeed, the upcoming dramedy - which stars Callie Thorne as a newly-separated therapist who takes on a bevy of professional athletes as clients - has gone out of its way to legitimize the sports side of the series. That's what stood out to me the most during a set visit this week.
Inside a warehouse in Atlanta, workers have built a locker room that rivals any in the NFL. There are four-walled coaching offices (where we watched Andrea Anders film her first scene), playbooks and posters (above) belonging to the New York Hawks (the team for which Mehcad Brooks plays wide receiver) and lockers with name plates that include references to the show's staff. (Creator/producer Craig Shapiro plays middle linebacker.)
But that's not all: the show has also constructed a fictional four-team league,...
- 6/9/2011
- by matt@mediavine.com (Matt Richenthal)
- TVfanatic
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