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Playmakers | |
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Genre | Drama |
Created by | John Eisendrath |
Written by | John Eisendrath Michael Angeli Craig Sweeny |
Starring | Omar Gooding Marcello Thedford Christopher Wiehl Jason Matthew Smith Russell Hornsby Anthony John Denison |
Composer | Lou Natalie |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 11 |
Production | |
Executive producers | John Eisendrath Micheal Angeli Craig Sweeney Orly Adelson |
Running time | 43-47 minutes |
Production companies | Thanksgiving Day Imagine Television Orly Adelson Productions Touchstone Television |
Original release | |
Network | ESPN |
Release | August 26 November 11, 2003 | –
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Playmakers is an American drama television series created by John Eisendrath that aired on ESPN from August 26 to November 11, 2003. It depicts the lives of the Cougars, a fictional professional football team playing in an unidentified city. The show stars Omar Gooding, Marcello Thedford, Christopher Wiehl, Jason Matthew Smith, Russell Hornsby, and Tony Denison. The show, which ran eleven episodes, was the first original drama series created by ESPN. Although the ratings were very high for ESPN—Playmakers was the highest-rated show on the network other than its Sunday night NFL and Saturday college football games—ESPN eventually canceled the series under pressure from the National Football League, who disliked the portrayal of the negative aspects of its players' lives off the field.[1]