CW to Air ESports Documentary ‘Girl Got Game’

By Michael Malone
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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The CW will air a documentary on an all-female eSports team called Girl Got Game. Produced by Studio71, it runs Wednesday, July 18.

Girl Got Game follows CLG Red, one of the few all-women teams in the world of eSports and the first to land a major sponsor. The team lives together in a team-sponsored house. CLG Red faces unexpected setbacks and new challenges as it prepares to play the first-person shooter game Counter-Strike: Global Offensive in a massive competition, the IEM Tournament in Poland.

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Executive producers on the project are Rabih Gholam, Kenneth Hull, Adam Boorstin and Anjuli Hinds.

Studio71 is a Red Arrow Studios company.

Michael Malone
Michael Malone

Michael Malone, senior content producer at B+C/Multichannel News, covers network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television. He hosts the podcasts Busted Pilot, about what’s new in television, and Series Business, a chat with the creator of a new program, and writes the column “The Watchman.” He joined B+C in 2005. His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Playboy and New York magazine.