The Premier League has been approached by Box To Box Films for a Netflix docuseries. The production company is the same firm behind Formula One’s popular docuseries Drive to Survive.
According to The Times of UK, Premier League and individuals clubs has been notified, both still deliberating on the mater.
The Premier League’s existing global appeal is hugely attractive for Netflix, which announced a net loss of 200,000 global subscribers in April, said the report.
The clubs will now hold further talks to discuss the viability of the project, which will reportedly include conversations around how much behind-the-scenes access they will need to provide and rights to game highlights.
Brandon Riegg, Netflix’s head of unscripted programming and documentaries, spoke earlier this year about how tennis and golf executives saw the benefits Drive to Survive had brought to Formula One.
“With tennis and golf, the leagues took notice of the ‘Drive to Survive’ effect,” he told Bloomberg. “We were recruiting folks who’d never watched sports or never watched Formula One.
“Drive to Survive’s first season helped the show reach core fans, but the audience of the show has ballooned over the past couple years.”
Though the streaming service want to showcase the docuseries however is not interested in live sports as compared to their rivals such as Amazon Prime Videos, Disney+ and Apple TV+.
“We’ve been very consistent and public about not getting into live sports. That said, sports is a huge category. Part of our remit is to serve as many audiences as we can. We wouldn’t be doing our jobs if we weren’t accommodating something in the sports space,” Riegg concludes.
