Ray Richmond is contributing to Deadline's TCA coverage. Espn on Wednesday announced during the first day of the Television Critics Association's summer confab that it will air seven more new documentaries this fall on the heels of the sports giant's successful 30 for 30 series that drew critical raves and serious viewership numbers when it aired last year. Among the titles revealed this morning were Morgan Spurlock's The Dotted Line, Jonathan Hock's Unguarded and Mike Tollin's The Real Rocky. The docs will air Tuesdays beginning Sept. 27 and join another new doc-based series, Rise Up, which looks at the impact of renovated sports facilities on four high schools and their communities and begins Sept. 13. As part of it's new doc slate, Espn trotted out former heavyweight punching bag Chuck Wepner -- aka The Bayonne Bleeder -- to meet the media at the Beverly Hilton. Now 72, Wepner was seen to be...
- 7/27/2011
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
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