British production company Fulwell 73 is set to produce documentary series “Flying High,” following a season in the lives of the Chelsea soccer club’s women’s team. The fly-on-the-wall series will follow the team through the 2019-20 season and look at the rapid rise in interest in the women’s game.
The eight-part series will go behind the scenes at the club, which is one of the world’s most successful women’s soccer teams. Fulwell 73 partner Leo Pearlman, who serves as an executive producer on the project, said that while “Flying High” would be a “fly-on-the-wall observational documentary,” viewers could expect “a beautiful and cinematic series doing justice to the powerful, human stories at the heart of the club.”
“Women’s football is, rightly, gathering huge interest and support around the world, and Chelsea Fc Women is at the forefront of that surge in popularity, and we hope this series captures that zeitgeist,...
The eight-part series will go behind the scenes at the club, which is one of the world’s most successful women’s soccer teams. Fulwell 73 partner Leo Pearlman, who serves as an executive producer on the project, said that while “Flying High” would be a “fly-on-the-wall observational documentary,” viewers could expect “a beautiful and cinematic series doing justice to the powerful, human stories at the heart of the club.”
“Women’s football is, rightly, gathering huge interest and support around the world, and Chelsea Fc Women is at the forefront of that surge in popularity, and we hope this series captures that zeitgeist,...
- 5/15/2019
- by Robert Mitchell
- Variety Film + TV
The Late Late Show with James Corden producer Fulwell73 has scored its latest soccer documentary. The company, which is responsible for Netflix’s Sunderland ‘Til I Die and Manchester United doc Class of ’92, is developing a series with Chelsea Fc Women.
The company is working up an eight-part series and comes as the popularity of women’s soccer is growing fast. No broadcaster has been announced.
Filmed over the course of the 2019/20 season with access to the club, dressing room, its grounds and its people, Flying High will chronicle a team looking to claim silverware having endured a tough season last time out.
It will follow the players, coaches and staff from around the world who make up Cfcw–from Germany, the USA, Australia, South Korea, New Zealand, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Finland and the United Kingdom – from pre-season training through to the highs and lows of the football season.
Those...
The company is working up an eight-part series and comes as the popularity of women’s soccer is growing fast. No broadcaster has been announced.
Filmed over the course of the 2019/20 season with access to the club, dressing room, its grounds and its people, Flying High will chronicle a team looking to claim silverware having endured a tough season last time out.
It will follow the players, coaches and staff from around the world who make up Cfcw–from Germany, the USA, Australia, South Korea, New Zealand, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Finland and the United Kingdom – from pre-season training through to the highs and lows of the football season.
Those...
- 5/15/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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