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Production is underway on Celtics City, a multipart documentary series on the 18-time NBA champion Boston Celtics from HBO Sports Documentaries and 30 for 30 co-creators Bill Simmons and Connor Schell. Directed by Emmy winner Lauren Stowell, the series will premiere on HBO and will stream on Max in 2025.

NASCAR Studios and Words + Pictures have partnered to form Full Speed Entertainment, a new production partnership that will develop and produce racing documentaries, series, special events studio shows and podcasts.

One of the banner’s first projects will be Season 2 of the NASCAR docuseries “Full Speed,” Variety has learned. The new season is set to debut on Netflix in 2025.

Connor Schell and Chernin Entertainment’s nonfiction banner Words + Pictures is getting ready for its next red carpet moment – the Oscars preshow on Sunday – via Full Day Productions, its fledgling live entertainment and unscripted specials production arm.

Connor Schell, the former ESPN content chief who left the Disney-owned sports network last year, is setting up a non-scripted studio with Chernin Entertainment.

Former ESPN content chief Connor Schell has brought in former colleague Libby Geist to help run his new nonfiction banner Words + Pictures as it ramps up productions of documentary fare.

Emmy- and Peabody-winning producer Connor Schell (30 for 30, The Last Dance, O.J.: Made in America) will executive produce the film through his recently announced non-scripted production studio formed with Chernin Entertainment.