League Of Legends Glory On The Line As Players Joins Paramount+ Lineup
The documentary-style series follows a fictional esports team in pursuit of a championship.
Posted on Aug 27, 2021 | 10:00am
Paramount+ has chosen their champions and are joining the game.
Players, a comedic documentary-style series in the style of The Last Dance, is coming soon to the streaming service. Follow a fictional pro League of Legends esports team as they pursue their first championship after years of close calls and heartache. To win it all, they will need their prodigy, a 17-year-old rookie, and their 27-year-old veteran to put their egos aside and work together.
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Produced by CBS Studios in association with Funny Or Die, the series reunites the Peabody Award-winning producing team behind Dan Perrault and Tony Yacenda's critically acclaimed freshman series American Vandal. In addition to co-creating and executive producing alongside Perrault, Yacenda will also direct. Funny Or Die's Joe Farrell and Mike Farah also serve as executive producers alongside Tim McAuliffe, Riot Games, 3Arts’ Ari Lubet, and Brillstein Entertainment Partners' Todd Sellers.
Riot Games' League of Legends is the most-played PC game with players located around the world. It has attracted more than 100 million monthly active users and generates billions of hours of gameplay per year. League of Legends is also the largest esport on the planet, with the 2020 League of Legends World Championship Finals generating a record-breaking 23.04 million average minute audience.
Players joins the growing comedic slate at Paramount+, which includes iCarly, No Activity, For Heaven's Sake, the dark dramedy Why Women Kill, and animated adult comedies Star Trek: Lower Decks and Stephen Colbert Presents Tooning Out The News. Other upcoming comedy series include animated series The Harper House and more to be announced.
Stay tuned for more information about Players on Paramount+.
Players, a comedic documentary-style series in the style of The Last Dance, is coming soon to the streaming service. Follow a fictional pro League of Legends esports team as they pursue their first championship after years of close calls and heartache. To win it all, they will need their prodigy, a 17-year-old rookie, and their 27-year-old veteran to put their egos aside and work together.
SUBSCRIBE NOW: Sign-Up For Paramount+
Produced by CBS Studios in association with Funny Or Die, the series reunites the Peabody Award-winning producing team behind Dan Perrault and Tony Yacenda's critically acclaimed freshman series American Vandal. In addition to co-creating and executive producing alongside Perrault, Yacenda will also direct. Funny Or Die's Joe Farrell and Mike Farah also serve as executive producers alongside Tim McAuliffe, Riot Games, 3Arts’ Ari Lubet, and Brillstein Entertainment Partners' Todd Sellers.
Riot Games' League of Legends is the most-played PC game with players located around the world. It has attracted more than 100 million monthly active users and generates billions of hours of gameplay per year. League of Legends is also the largest esport on the planet, with the 2020 League of Legends World Championship Finals generating a record-breaking 23.04 million average minute audience.
Players joins the growing comedic slate at Paramount+, which includes iCarly, No Activity, For Heaven's Sake, the dark dramedy Why Women Kill, and animated adult comedies Star Trek: Lower Decks and Stephen Colbert Presents Tooning Out The News. Other upcoming comedy series include animated series The Harper House and more to be announced.
Stay tuned for more information about Players on Paramount+.