Apple Inks Deal With John Skipper, Dan Le Batard’s Meadowlark Media – The Hollywood Reporter
John Skipper and Dan Le Batard’s Meadowlark Media is increasing its footprint.
The 2 ESPN veterans have signed a first-look cope with Apple TV+. Underneath the multi-year deal, Meadowlark will develop and produce documentaries and unscripted sequence for the streaming platform.
Skipper, a former president of ESPN, and Le Batard, a former Miami Herald columnist turned radio and TV host on the cable sports activities large, based Meadowlark Media in January, a month after Le Batard and ESPN parted methods.
Le Batard has continued to host the Dan Le Batard Present With Stugotz as a day by day podcast after ESPN Radio stopped distributing it. Meadowlark signed a content material and distribution cope with sports activities betting firm DraftKings and is producing a podcast for the BBC’s Sport’s Strangest Crimes sequence.
Meadowlark additionally counts The Good Place creator Michael Schur and Jemele Hill, who like Skipper and Le Batard is an ESPN veteran, as inventive advisers. Schur and Joe Posnanski’s PosCast not too long ago got here beneath the corporate’s umbrella after beforehand being housed at The Athletic.
The cope with Meadowlark Media may give Apple TV+ a larger toehold in sports-related programming, an space the streamer has but to discover a lot. Apple TV+ debuted basketball drama Swagger final week and aired short-form docuseries Greatness Code final yr and has a doc sequence on basketball participant Makur Maker in improvement.
