{"id":355739,"date":"2026-06-30T13:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T13:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/355739\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T13:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T13:48:10","slug":"texas-tech-football-lands-paramount-docuseries-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/355739\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tech football lands Paramount+ docuseries for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of Texas&#8217; biggest college football programs is the focus of a new Paramount+ documentary series. As anticipation for kickoff begins to build, the streaming service announced Monday it has approved a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paramountpressexpress.com\/paramount-plus\/shows\/texas-tech-docuseries-wt\/releases\/?view=113005-paramount-greenlights-texas-tech-red-raiders-football-docuseries\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">four-part series following the Texas Tech Red Raiders<\/a> through a pivotal offseason ahead of the 2026 football season.<\/p>\n<p>The series, produced by\u00a0Skydance Sports and Second Wind Creative, has been in production since January and is expected to premiere before the college football season begins, according to Paramount+.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTexas Tech football has one of the most passionate fanbases in college sports, and this docuseries will give them an unprecedented look at what it takes to build an elite program,\u201d said Jane Wiseman, head of originals for Paramount+. \u201cThis series is exactly the kind of premium scripted and unscripted sports storytelling our subscribers love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Directed by Micah Brown, whose credits include \u201cCoach Prime\u201d and \u201cUntold: Sign Stealer,\u201d the series follows head coach Joey McGuire as he works to build a new team identity during what Paramount+ describes as one of the most consequential\u00a0offseasons in college football history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis documentary will give the Red Raider Nation an inside look at everything that makes Texas Tech Athletics special, the people, the passion, and the relentless pursuit of excellence that defines this program every day,\u201d said Kirby\u00a0Hocutt, Texas Tech\u2019s director of athletics. \u201cWe are incredibly proud that Paramount+ selected Texas Tech for a groundbreaking documentary with rare access.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Skydance Sports, the studio behind the documentary series \u201cRafa\u201d and \u201caka Charlie Sheen,\u201d as well as the Golden Globe-nominated film \u201cAir,\u201d starring Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, is producing the series. The studio recently earned 10 Sports Emmy nominations for projects including \u201cAmerica\u2019s Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys,\u201d \u201cWWE: Unreal,\u201d \u201cElway\u201d and \u201cSAQUON.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Paramount+ has not announced an exact premiere date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of Texas&#8217; biggest college football programs is the focus of a new Paramount+ documentary series. As anticipation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3505,27,29,28,3504],"class_list":["post-355739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-auddevok","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-txshare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}