CW to Air ESports Documentary ‘Girl Got Game’

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The CW will air a documentary on an all-female eSports team called Girl Got Game. Produced by Studio71, it runs Wednesday, July 18.

Girl Got Game follows CLG Red, one of the few all-women teams in the world of eSports and the first to land a major sponsor. The team lives together in a team-sponsored house. CLG Red faces unexpected setbacks and new challenges as it prepares to play the first-person shooter game Counter-Strike: Global Offensive in a massive competition, the IEM Tournament in Poland.

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Executive producers on the project are Rabih Gholam, Kenneth Hull, Adam Boorstin and Anjuli Hinds.

Studio71 is a Red Arrow Studios company.

Michael Malone
Michael Malone

Michael Malone is content director at B+C and Multichannel News. He joined B+C in 2005 and has covered network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television, including writing the "Local News Close-Up" market profiles. He also hosted the podcasts "Busted Pilot" and "Series Business." His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The L.A. Times, The Boston Globe and New York magazine.