Playmakers

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• Genre(s): Drama, Crime
• Language(s): English
• Director(s): Terry Ingram, Stephen Williams, T.J. Scott, John Fawcett, Bruce McDonald See all Crew
• Cast(s): Tony Denison, Omar Gooding, Russell Hornsby, Jason Matthew Smith, Marcello Thedford See all Cast & Crew

• Music: Louis Natale
• Similar To: Spider-Noir, Legends
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  Playmakers is an American television series that aired on ESPN from August 26, 2003 to November 11, 2003. It depicted the lives of the Cougars, a fictional professional football team in an unidentified city. The show starred 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 thought professional football was being negatively portrayed.
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