Cowboys Wire delivered the announcement of a docuseries telling the life story of Jerry Jones and focusing on his ownership of the Cowboys last May. Now that project has a home.
Netflix announced Wednesday that they will stream the 10-part series, though it does not have an official title or premiere date.
The project will feature content from NFL Films, some which has never before been aired. The 45-minute episodes promise to highlight many Cowboys notables, like Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith, Michael Irvin, Deion Sanders, Jimmy Johnson, and Barry Switzer.
Jones’s daughter and Cowboys chief brand officer Charlotte Jones will serve as one of multiple executive producers of the series, a venture between the National Football League and Skydance Sports, in association with Stardust Frames Productions. Skydance Sports is the sports content division of Skydance Media, the production company behind several titles in the Mission: Impossible, Star Trek, Terminator, Transformers, and Jack Ryan movie franchises, as well as 2022’s megablockbuster Top Gun: Maverick. Recently, Skydance Sports was also responsible for Air, the scripted feature- from director Ben Affleck and starring Affleck, Matt Damon, and Viola Davis- based on the birth of Nike’s historic partnership with Michael Jordan.
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The announcement of the Jones docuseries came just hours after Netflix officially entered the NFL broadcast arena by securing the rights to air two regular-season games this Christmas Day.
Netflix appears to be “all-in” with the NFL, and especially Jones and the Cowboys. Subscribers will get a summer 2024 series titled America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. Additionally, the streaming giant will handle the broadcast of the Jake Paul-versus-Mike Tyson boxing match from AT&T Stadium on July 20.
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