Pro wrestling might be scripted, but that doesn’t mean AEW can’t provide some unscripted content to its broadcast partners.
As revealed by Tony Khan via soon to return Adam Cole during the Feb. 22 episode of Dynamite, AEW and TBS are teaming to premiere the unscripted “follow-doc” series “AEW: All Access.” The show will debut in March and air after Dynamite, though an exact premiere date was not revealed.
Along with Cole, the series will follow the lives of Dr. Britt Baker, Sammy Guevara, Tay Conti, The Young Bucks, Saraya, Wardlow and Eddie Kingston, as well as AEW head honcho Khan.
Here’s how the series is described in the press release put out by AEW right after Dynamite:
Each episode will showcase AEW’s stars as they navigate the week-to-week challenges to remain at the top, and will track the rivalries between talent as they vie for fans’ attention. Over the course of the series, viewers will get the chance to follow the contentious lead-up to AEW’s major wrestling events and matches.
While that summary doesn’t necessarily make it sound like everything seen on “All Access” will be completely spontaneous, that might not be a bad thing. Khan has long maintained that with the size of the AEW roster, one of his issues is finding a way to showcase everyone on a regular basis.
The new show could help solve some of that, in the sense that a few wrestlers can be left off Dynamite in a given week and not lose any momentum if fans can see them on that night’s episode of “All Access.”
That’s assuming, of course, that it can hook fans to stick around after two hours of Dynamite. Let’s just say that it has a better chance of doing that than “Power Slap: Road to the Title,” which currently follows Dynamite.
In that respect, “AEW: All Access” can’t start soon enough.