Tag: The Last Dance
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‘Hoops’ Trailer: Jake Johnson Is a Foul-Mouthed High School Basketball Coach in Netflix’s New Animated Series
The Michael Jordan and Chicago Bulls documentary The Last Dance is now available for you to stream on Netflix, but that’s not the only basketball action the streaming service is bringing to the table. Hoops is a new adult animated series that follows Jake Johnson as Coach Ben Hopkins, […]The post ‘Hoops’ Trailer: Jake Johnson…
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The 1986 World Series Champion New York Mets Are Getting a Multi-Part ’30 for 30′ Documentary at ESPN
Sports fans can’t get enough of ESPN’s 30 for 30 sports documentaries. While the series was already popular before, there’s been a surge in interest recently due to the lack of new sports due to the coronavirus pandemic. The success of the 10-part documentary series The Last Dance about Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls…
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Michael Jordan and ‘The Last Dance’ Are Finally Coming to Netflix in the Us This Month
ESPN had a monster hit on their hands from April through May thanks to the release of the 10-hour documentary series The Last Dance, a chronicle of the final championship season run by NBA superstar Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls. Netflix also had a hand in producing the documentary, and even though it was…
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Critics Choice Real TV Awards Winners Include ‘Cheer,’ ‘Queer Eye,’ as Netflix Wins Big
The Critics Choice Association (Cca) and nonfiction producers’ organization Npact announced the winners for the second annual Critics Choice Real TV Awards, honoring the best in nonfiction, unscripted and reality programming aired on broadcast, cable and streaming platforms.Netflix programming was the big winner this year, with the streamer taking home eight wins from its 31…
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‘Long Gone Summer’ Trailer: Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire Swing for Home Run Supremacy
Following the massive success of the Michael Jordan and Chicago Bulls documentary series The Last Dance, ESPN is trying to keep the hype alive by releasing new 30 for 30 sports documentaries on Sundays. One of them will be Long Gone Summer, which chronicles the famous home run battle in the summer of 1998 between…
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Michael Jordan’s Former Teammate Horace Grant Says ‘Last Dance’ Is ’90 Percent Bullsh*t’
ESPN’s hugely popular Michael Jordan documentary “The Last Dance” ended its 10-episode run over the weekend, and now the non-fiction series is being called out by one of its talking head subjects: Horace Grant. The former NBA athlete played alongside Jordan on the Chicago Bulls, where the two men won three championship titles together. In…
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‘The Last Dance’: The Process Behind Tackling the Gargantuan Amount of Footage in the ESPN Series
On the surface, there are plenty of connections to draw between “O.J.: Made in America” and “The Last Dance.” Both have, at their center, athletes who came to be globally recognized superstars who each had their own challenges dealing with their separate fames. Both have become mammoth ESPN-aired deep dives, each illustrating different areas of…
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‘SNL’ Parodies ESPN’s ‘The Last Dance’ with Bowen Yang as Michael Jordan Superfan Kim Jong-un
Saturday night’s “SNL at Home” episode has yielded an additional sketch left on the cutting room floor, capping a 45th season that found the Studio 8H gang working remotely to bring us virtually produced laughs in dark times. The digital exclusive, embedded below, stars “Saturday Night Live” Season 45 newcomer Bowen Yang as Kim Jong-un,…
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Ken Burns Slams Michael Jordan Documentary: “That’s Not the Way You Do Good Journalism”
Veteran documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, who has directed such acclaimed docuseries as The Civil War and The Vietnam War, has come out and slammed ESPN’s new Michael Jordan docuseries The Last Dance in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, saying “it’s not how you do good journalism.” Of course, Burns hasn’t watched The Last…
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‘The Last Dance’ Review: Enthralling ESPN Series Captures the Magnitude of Michael Jordan and the ’98 Bulls
Everyone in “The Last Dance” has a Michael Story. Maybe it’s one they’ve told enough times at dinner parties or family gatherings that the timing has been workshopped to perfection. In some cases, the story might have drifted so far from the truth that it exists as its own self-perpetuating myth. Over the course of…