Amazon Prime Video is gearing up to "launch more sports programming" under the "All or Nothing" banner after its initial success with the Emmy-winning NFL series, according to Dino-Ray Ramos of DEADLINE.com. The expansion of programming starts with "All or Nothing: The Michigan Wolverines" on April 6. Narrated by actor Mark Harmon, all eight episodes chronicling the '17 football season "will be available for streaming exclusively on Prime Video" as the cameras "follow coach Jim Harbaugh in his third season." The series is executive produced by BTN Originals, The Montag Group and Jim Jorden Productions. Also "on the slate is All or Nothing: New Zealand All Blacks which follows New Zealand Rugby’s famed All Blacks" throughout '17. That series will be "produced by Mother Media Group in conjunction with Warner Brothers New Zealand and Pango Productions." Rounding out the series "will be All or Nothing: Manchester City," which will "give an inside look at the historic Club’s behind-the-scenes action." That production is a "collaboration between MediaPro, Prime Video, Manchester City, IMG, and Film45" (DEADLINE.com, 3/20).
TRUE COLORS: ESPN’s Mike Golic said of a new documentary featuring NFL Draft prospect Baker Mayfield, "This is a player that had issues with behind the scenes and off the field. I just don't know why you would add something to that. In an era where you want to streamline everything to impress GMs to say, ‘Pick me, I can lead your team,’ I don't know why a guy in his position with the questions around him goes down that road.” But ESPN’s Mike Golic Jr. said, “I'm assuming Baker has a say in what hits air in this. This is something that he’s behind or at least involved in enough to have a say so, or at least understands that he’s being filmed." Golic Jr. "If you’re a guy who has a checkered past where people will say, ‘He’s got all these problems here and there,’ you can peel back the curtain and say, ‘This is how hard I'm working, this is how much I love this.’ ... Teams will do their own homework, they’re going to find out their own way." But Trey Wingo said, “If I'm a GM and I see this, I'm sprinting the other way. ... (Mayfield) is the one guy who shouldn't be doing this with everything else that’s gone on. ... What is the upside in doing this?" (“Golic & Wingo,” ESPN Radio, 3/20).
