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[06/13/23 - 11:43 PM]
Development Update: Tuesday, June 13
Updates include: VH1 renews "Basketball Wives"; Jason Bateman brings "Daddy Ball" to Netflix; and The CW passes on second season for "The Professionals."







DADDY BALL (NETFLIX)
DEVELOPMENT HISTORY:
6/13/23
STATUS:
currently in development (2024-2025 season)
DEVELOPMENT STAGE:
ordered to series
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
eight-episode limited series
DESCRIPTION:
(from Netflix's press release, June 2023) Determined not to follow in his detached father's footsteps, Bobby Sanfilippo found himself doing quite the opposite with his son. He became entangled in an epic travel baseball dad-on-dad rivalry with a man named John Reardon that led tabloids to call him "a Suffolk County Steinbrenner," "seriously sick," and one of the worst dads in youth-sports history. It starts in the world of Little League baseball and expands into a Beef-like war between two smalltime criminal fathers. Both Sanfilippo and Reardon have rap sheets of their own, but what went down in the summer of 2012 at Baseball Heaven will define them and their families forever. Stalking claims, threatening text messages, and an unwarranted arrest later at the heart of it all, it's a story about the lengths fathers will go for their sons.
PRINCIPAL CAST INFORMATION:
· Jason Bateman
CREW INFORMATION:
· David Gauvey Herbert as BOOK
· David Klawans as PROD
· Jason Bateman as EP/DIR (Pilot)
· Michael Costigan as EP
· Roxie Rodriguez as EP
GENRE(S):
· drama
STUDIO INFORMATION:
· Aggregate Films