Vanderpump Guidelines producer Alex Baskin has partnered with tech mogul Alexis Ohanian, U.S. Girls’s Nationwide Crew ahead Midge Purce and Field to Field Movies to launch a brand new actuality sports activities docuseries.
The Offseason will observe 11 NWSL gamers, together with Purce, via two weeks of “training, partying and living together under one roof” in Miami throughout, because the title signifies, their offseasons.
The sequence, financed by Ohanian’s Seven Seven Six, is already in manufacturing and can encompass six half-hour episodes.
Whereas Baskin has made his title with Vanderpump Guidelines, the Actual Housewives franchise and different actuality properties, Ohanian brings the sports activities funding experience. Ohanian and his spouse, Serena Williams, are traders in Angel Metropolis FC of the NWSL.
“It was a radical idea in 2019 for me to start an NWSL club in L.A., and in 2023, everyone in Hollywood told me it was a radical idea to incubate a production company and unscripted show like The Offseason, which makes me think we’re already on the right track,” Ohanian mentioned in an announcement. “All of the most successful reality TV shows feature women, and with Midge’s vision and these acclaimed producers’ execution, everyone is going to realize women’s sports was an obvious vehicle all along. Someone just had to be first.”
For followers questioning what to anticipate from the sequence, Purce, 28, referred to as it a mixture of Vanderpump Guidelines and Drive to Survive, the hit Netflix documentary sequence following Formulation 1.
It’s new territory for a sports activities franchise, as it’s going to carry rivals on the pitch collectively to reside in a single home. The sequence will element “their personal stories, interpersonal relationships and on-field journey.”
“Midge presented us with the exclusive opportunity to produce an original narrative around women’s sports framed around an offseason tradition she established with the NWSL,” Baskin mentioned in an announcement. “This was a story that needed to be told, and one that we think represents an entirely new lane of programming.”
Field to Field cofounder Paul Martin referred to as The Offseason “the ultimate crossover of premium sports doc and high-end reality featuring some of the most exciting, new, hot-ticket sports stars on the planet. We’ll be working with excellent collaborators in Alexis, Midge and Alex to bring the spotlight to these incredible women giving global audiences a glimpse behind the scenes of what it takes to make a sportswoman a sports star.”
Along with Purce, the sequence will observe Michelle Alozie, Lo’eau LaBonta, Paige Nielsen, Ify Onumonu, Maria Sanchez, Taylor Smith, Nikki Stanton, Taryn Torres and Ally Watt.