My chat with Gabe Spitzer, Netflix’s head of nonfiction sports, at the Netflix Slam tennis event reveals the streamer’s sports ambitions keep growing.
Nonfiction sports? I guess fiction sports encompasses “scripted events” like this:
One can easily envision this becoming an annual event, one that’s clearly meant to build on the success of Netflix original docuseries Break Point in the same way that the racing-golf event built on Full Swing and Formula 1: Drive to Survive.
Come to think of it, fiction sports aren’t new. Several of those ’30s Chevy newsreels featured fake sports events similar to racing-golf, with the sole purpose of showing off pretty girls near a Chevy.
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