{"id":120765,"date":"2025-08-30T11:52:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T11:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/120765\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T11:52:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T11:52:32","slug":"chiney-ogwumike-developing-wnba-comedy-series-the-w-at-peacock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/120765\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiney Ogwumike Developing WNBA Comedy Series \u2018The W\u2019 At Peacock"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: The WNBA<\/a> is getting its first scripted TV series, with Peacock<\/a> developing a comedy titled The W<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe series is set in the world of professional women\u2019s basketball, which is having a moment with stars such as Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese. It comes from two-time WNBA All-Star Chiney Ogwumike<\/a> and GLOW creators Carly Mensch<\/a> and Liz Flahive<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe half-hour project follows a hot-shot rookie WNBA player and her inexperienced agent navigating the wild ups and downs of the world of women\u2019s professional basketball. It is loosely inspired by Ogwumike and her longtime business partner and agent, Allison Galer, who chose an unconventional path after Ogwumike, who was the first pick in the 2014, chose the 24-year-old as her rep. It will look at the \u201cglamour and grind\u201d of women\u2019s sports.<\/p>\n

\n\tOgwumike was drafted by the Connecticut Sun before being traded to the Los Angeles Sparks in 2019. She also signed a deal with ESPN in 2018 and in 2020 became the first Black woman to host a national radio show for the Disney-owned sports network. She is also an in-studio analyst for NBA Today.<\/p>\n

\n\tFlahive and Mensch, who ran Netflix\u2019s women\u2019s-wrestling comedy drama GLOW for three seasons, will serve as showrunners for\u00a0The W\u00a0and will co-write the pilot with Tori Collins, who worked on Jamie Foxx\u2019s Netflix comedy Dad Stop Embarrassing Me!<\/p>\n

\n\tUniversal Television<\/a> is the studio and is producing The W with Cond\u00e9 Nast\u2019s Glamour Studios and Victorious. It will be exec produced by Ogwumike, Galer, Flahive, Mensch, Helen Estabrook, Lajoie St. George and Jodi Hildebrand.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt also marks the first project for Ogwumike\u2019s production company Victorious. Ogwumike and Galer previously created and exec produced ESPN Films documentary\u00a0144, which documented the 2020 WNBA season in the Covid bubble.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tAllison Galer \/ Carly Mensch and Liz Flahive (Courtesy of Subjects)<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cOur mission with Victorious is to build a future where women in sports can win big,\u201d said\u00a0Ogwumike. \u201cOne of the most invaluable lessons that I have learned as a professional athlete, broadcaster, and ambassador is that we no longer have to wait for opportunities, we can create them. We are in an era where barriers are being broken, ceilings are being shattered and the world is finally taking notice. And with our groundbreaking first project, we will bring the main topic to the mainstream. In that spirit, Victorious is a purpose-driven platform that will forge new pathways for us to celebrate our own wins.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAdded Galer: \u201cWith Victorious and our first-of-its-kind scripted project, we are creating meaningful opportunities that show women in sports winning at the highest levels. As an advocate and teammate of female athletes for over a decade, I know firsthand the power of women\u2019s sports and its exceptional ability to capture hearts and minds. With media coverage accelerating, superstar status shining, and investment expanding, Victorious will be the go-to vehicle for women\u2019s sports stories to reach and captivate global audiences.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tGlamour\u2019s Global Editorial Director Samantha Barry: \u201cGlamour has a longstanding history of championing, spotlighting, and honoring female athletes. With more eyes focused on the world of women\u2019s sports than ever before, we couldn\u2019t be more thrilled to partner with WNBA icon Chiney Ogwumike, who has paved the way for herself and others in the industry.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: The WNBA is getting its first scripted TV series, with Peacock developing a comedy titled The W.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[77532,77533,77534,220,99,77535,77536,434],"class_list":["post-120765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-carly-mensch","tag-chiney-ogwumike","tag-liz-flahive","tag-peacock","tag-sports","tag-the-w","tag-universal-television","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}