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A ‘Succession’ For Soccer? Sony’s Wayne Garvie Thinks Football Could Field The Next Major Drama Series


Sony Pictures Television could make soccer's version of 'Succession' with City Football Group, top international exec Wayne Garvie has said.

Blasco said La Liga Studios had formed after the Spanish top division, which is second in popularity only to the globally-dominant Premier League, announced plans to create content from based on its teams and players. Recalling his spell as VP of International at Netflix, he compared the 70-odd English soccer teams in the country’s top three divisions to “70 books of scale that if you could bid on, you would in a heartbeat.” Barmack said assessing how much to invest in soccer content was “difficult,” but that his approach looking to acquire clubs was driven by the idea of building a global business.

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