Showtime Debuts Weekly Sports Block

Showtime debuts a Tuesday sports block Sept. 6, with 60 Minutes Sports on at 8 p.m, followed by the ninth season of Inside the NFL at 9, then the second installment of its “all-access” college football franchise A Season With Florida State Football at 10.  

New editions of 60 Minutes Sports, a collaboration with corporate sibling CBS News, air the first Tuesday of every month. In the September episode, Broncos linebacker Von Miller talks about holding out for a new contract.

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Inside the NFL airs weekly. James Brown, Phil Simmons and Boomer Esiason join Brandon Marshall in the booth; Marshall is also a wide receiver with the New York Jets.

A Season With Florida State, too, airs weekly on Tuesdays. The series “delivers exclusive sights, sounds and drama from the entire high-stakes season unlike any other show on television,” according to Showtime.

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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.