<![CDATA[ Latest from Next TV in Last-chance-u ]]> https://www.nexttv.com/tag/last-chance-u Tue, 13 Dec 2022 21:33:21 +0000 en <![CDATA[ Last Chance U: Basketball Returns to Netflix ]]> https://www.nexttv.com/news/last-chance-u-basketball-returns-to-netflix 9bKtT8XTt4LiWorbXmszXX Tue, 13 Dec 2022 21:33:21 +0000 Tue, 13 Dec 2022 23:13:18 +0000

Last Chance U: Basketball’s second season is on Netflix December 13. The show returns to East Los Angeles College (ELAC) to look at its scrappy basketball team. There are eight episodes. 

As the season begins, it’s a year after COVID caused an abrupt and emotional end to ELAC’s championship run in 2020. Coach John Mosley is eager to get back on the court with an almost entirely new roster of Huskies, including talented but troubled D1-level athletes looking for a last opportunity to make it. Off the court, players share their personal struggles of family instability, mental health and homelessness.

“Viewers will follow the team’s journey as players work to overcome personal demons and fight for their spot on the court,” according to Netflix. 

Greg Whiteley, Adam Leibowitz and Daniel George McDonald direct.

Last Chance U follows various junior college football teams. 

Last Chance U: Basketball is a Netflix production in association with GQ Studios, Endgame Entertainment, One Potato Productions and Boardwalk Pictures. Executive producers are Greg Whiteley, Joe LaBracio, Lucas Smith and James D. Stern. ■

]]> <![CDATA[ Netflix Renews ‘Last Chance U’ ]]> https://www.nexttv.com/news/netflix-renews-last-chance-u-414810 tXauByHHGuFH4o8CQPLDoX Thu, 24 Aug 2017 17:28:00 +0000

Netflix has greenlit a third season of its documentary series Last Chance U, the network said Thursday.

The junior college football-focused series will continue to follow the lives of elite athletes who deal with personal dramas, past mistakes and future goals as they hopefully realize their dreams of competing at the next level, according to Netflix. The next season will focus on Independence Community College in Kansas.

“While we now have the opportunity to head to Kansas, we hope to revisit the people we've grown to love over the past two seasons of Last Chance U,” said director Greg Whiteley in a statement. “We are forever grateful to the talented team at East Mississippi Community College who dedicated months of their lives in Scooba and trusted us to tell their incredible stories.”

Last Chance U is a Netflix production in association with Condé Nast Entertainment, Endgame Entertainment and One Potato Productions, and is executive produced by Greg Whiteley, Joe LaBracio, Dawn Ostroff, Lucas Smith, James Stern, Ben Cotner, Adam Del Deo and Lisa Nishimura.

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