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EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is successful early improvement connected nan scripted sports bid Glory Days from Josh Safran (Gossip Girl, Quantico) and Skydance Sports. Safran will service arsenic writer, showrunner, and executive shaper of nan task should it spell to series. Nancy Cotton will besides EP.
In Glory Days, each summer, nan apical assemblage shot players are recruited to Cape Cod to effort retired for talent scouts from astir nan world for a changeable astatine nan majors. The series follows nan coaches, players, and section townspeople arsenic their futures, families, secrets, and activity lives collide during nan summertime of their lives. Glory Days is described arsenic The OC meets Bull Durham.
Netflix declined to remark for this story.
In summation to Glory Days, Safran is presently shooting nan aviator for nan U.S. Marshall play Protection for NBC. Protection stars Peter Krause successful nan lead domiciled of Mike Thornhill, alongside Hope Davis, Tommy O’Brien, Kat Cunning, and Taylor Bloom.
When a U.S. Marshal falls successful nan statement of duty, a seemingly cut-and-dry lawsuit turns into a deadly conspiracy arsenic a family of rule enforcement agents becomes nan target of a mysterious assassin successful Protection. Bridging individual differences and crossing master boundaries, nan Thornhill family must usage nan expertise from a life of protecting civilians and politicians to protect 1 different and bring nan slayer to justness — moreover if it intends betraying their sworn code.
Safran was creator, executive producer, and showrunner of ABC’s Quantico, Netflix’s Soundtrack, and HBO Max’s Gossip Girl reboot, and served arsenic executive shaper and showrunner connected NBC’s Smash. He was besides a writer-producer connected nan original Gossip Girl series.
