Boston Red Sox to Be Part of Groundbreaking New Project with Netflix in 2024
The Boston Red Sox don't figure to be particularly good in 2024, but they will be historic.
The Sox are partnering with Netflix for two new video projects, one of which will be a docuseries on the 2024 season.
You've heard of "Hard Knocks" on HBO? Get ready for the full-season version.
The following comes in a release from Netflix:
- Netflix today announced two new projects with Major League Baseball featuring one of the league’s most storied franchises, the Boston Red Sox.
- For the first time, Netflix will follow an MLB team over the course of a full season. This docuseries will feature one of sports’ most historic teams, the Boston Red Sox, and provide viewers a window into what it takes to compete across a season’s ups and downs in one of the most rabid sports environments. Netflix will have unprecedented access to players, coaches and executives throughout the 2024 season and the docuseries will debut in 2025.
- Executive Produced and Directed by Greg Whiteley of One Potato Productions (Cheer, Last Chance U, Wrestlers). Also serving as Executive Producers are Andrew Fried and Dane Lillegard of Boardwalk Pictures (Cheer, Chef’s Table, Race: Bubba Wallace).
- The second project– coming to Netflix later this year– is an untitled documentary looking back at the extraordinary and 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. It 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.
It will be interesting to see how the players and coaches respond to being filmed all season long. We've seen things like this with the "Last Dance" series on ESPN, so it has been done before, but players may be a little more guarded throughout the year. That remains to be seen.
Also, there has already been a great "30 for 30" on the Sox 2004 championship. How will this differ from "Four Days in October?"
I guess we'll have to watch to find out.
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