CNN Reunites With Playtone's Tom Hanks & Gary Goetzman On ‘Decade In Sports' Series
Decades in Sports continues the CNN Original Series' partnership with Playtone. That which includes over eight seasons and over 70 hours of television, including The Sixties, 1968: The Year That Changed America, The Seventies, The Eighties, The Nineties, The 2000s, The 2010s, The Movies and Tis the Season: Holidays on Film.
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'Tom, Mark and I are delighted to be working with Amy Entelis again,' said Goetzman. 'We've always felt great support and creative freedom from her and her team at CNN Originals.'
The six-part series will unravel the thrill of the victory and the agony of defeat across six decades of larger-than-life athletes, intense rivalries and stunning upsets that encapsulate the command sports have on our cultural attention.
'Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman and Mark Herzog have created many iconic series for CNN, and our audiences have shown a continuing interest in unpacking and reliving the nostalgia around specific cultural moments,' said Amy Entelis, executive vice president of talent, CNN Originals and creative development for CNN Worldwide. 'We are excited to revitalize this CNN Original Series mainstay through the lens of sports, which command such intense and widespread fandom.'
Executive producers for Decades in Sports are Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman, and Mark Herzog; Amy Entelis and Lyle Gamm will Executive Produce for CNN Original Series.
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