{"id":884823,"date":"2026-10-16T22:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T22:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/884823\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T22:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T22:08:12","slug":"prime-video-orders-julie-plec-tennis-series-rally-with-andre-agassi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/884823\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Video Orders Julie Plec Tennis Series &#8216;Rally&#8217; With Andre Agassi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/prime-video\/\" id=\"auto-tag_prime-video_1\" data-tag=\"prime-video\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Prime Video<\/a> has ordered a new series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/rally\/\" id=\"auto-tag_rally_1\" data-tag=\"rally\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rally<\/a>, a competitive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/tennis\/\" id=\"auto-tag_tennis_1\" data-tag=\"tennis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tennis<\/a> drama from The Vampire Diaries creator and We Were Liars co-showrunner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/julie-plec\/\" id=\"auto-tag_julie-plec_1\" data-tag=\"julie-plec\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Julie Plec<\/a>, which will be executive produced by former tennis pro <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/andre-agassi\/\" id=\"auto-tag_andre-agassi_1\" data-tag=\"andre-agassi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andre Agassi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe series, which the streamer announced Friday morning, is set at a \u201chyper-competitive\u201d elite tennis academy, where \u201cambitious young players discover that the loneliest sport in the world demands sacrificing the very connections that might be the only thing that makes winning worth it,\u201d according to a release. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tPlec will write, direct, showrun and executive produce the series hailing from Universal Television in association with Entertainment 360 and Amazon MGM Studios. The show is being made under Plec\u2019s production banner My So Called Company, which is under an overall deal at Universal Television. In addition to Plec, executive producers include Guymon Casady for Entertainment 360, Agassi and fellow former player Justin Gimelstob and Emily Cummins for My So Called Company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cI am eager for Justin and I to lend our experiences to help the incredible Rally team,\u201d Agassi said in a release. \u201cAt this stage of our lives having an endeavor that allows us to work with the best in class in what they do and hopefully contribute to the process, is an exciting challenge.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tInspiration for the project came from Casady\u2019s own experience watching his children train in elite junior tennis at IMG Academy. \u201cTo build this world alongside a master storyteller like Julie Plec, and to ground it in the unmatched, authentic perspective of a true legend like Andre Agassi, is a remarkable privilege,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAdded Cummins, \u201cAs major tennis fans ourselves, this has been the most fun we\u2019ve had at work in a while.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Video has ordered a new series Rally, a competitive tennis drama from The Vampire Diaries creator and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":884824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[23136,90692,7048,22385,99,428],"class_list":["post-884823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-andre-agassi","tag-julie-plec","tag-prime-video","tag-rally","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884823","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=884823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/884824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}