Playmakers (2003)

Directed by

John Fawcett, Brad Turner

Genre

LGBT-related television series

Country

United States

Length

1 season, 11 episodes

Rated

18

Rating

4.6 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This series follows a fictional professional football team and shows the difficult personal lives of its players off the field. It focuses on the struggles they face with relationships, injuries, and the pressures of fame. The show presents a hard look at the darker side of professional sports.

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What happens

Playmakers is an American drama television series created by John Eisendrath that aired on ESPN from August 26 to November 11, 2003. It depicts the lives of the Cougars, a fictional professional football team playing in an unidentified city. The show stars Tony Denison, Omar Gooding, Russell Hornsby, Jason Matthew Smith, Marcello Thedford, and Christopher Wiehl. The show, which ran eleven episodes, was the first original drama series created by ESPN. Although the ratings were very high for ESPN—Playmakers was the highest-rated show on the network other than its Sunday night NFL and Saturday college football games—ESPN eventually canceled the series under pressure from the National Football League, who disliked the portrayal of the negative aspects of its players' lives off the field. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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