The Play Makers chronicles the meteoric rise of sports television, from ABC’s pioneering 1960s innovations to ESPN’s wild ascent in the cable-TV era. 

Dramatized with the emotional impact and stylistic detail of Mad Men, this new mult-season series exposes the behind-the-scenes skirmishes, cutthroat workplace culture, and groundbreaking work of overlooked women in a male-dominated industry that discovered how to transform traditional competition into unfrogettable narrative and spectacle, delivered directly to our homes. 

Inspired by Travis Vogan’s exhaustively research books and developed by nine-time Emmy winner Paul Devlin, The Play Makers explores how sports evolved from simplistic filler content into a cultural powerhouse. Composite and real-life characters, reveal the untold history of the outrageous personalities that built media empires that changed how the world consumes sports.

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