Connor Schell, a former ESPN executive who now runs Words + Pictures and is behind the Prime Video doc series ‘Game 7,’ argues that the sports anthology format is ripe for a comeback.
Does the sports anthology documentary series have a future? ESPN revolutionized the format in 2009 with the launch of 30 for 30. Originally planned as 30 documentaries connected to the channel’s 30th anniversary, it has since become a documentary franchise in and of itself. Connor Schell helped create that franchise for ESPN alongside Bill Simmons. Now running his own company, Words + Pictures (it is part of Peter Chernin’s The North Road Company), Schell is trying to rethink the sports anthology with Game 7, which debuted on Prime Video Oct. 22.
