Fox Nation Snags 'Fab Four' Film Rights

From left: Detroit Lions’ Martha Firestone Ford, Chicago Bears’ Virginia McCaskey, Pittsburgh Steelers’ Patricia Rooney, and Kansas City Chiefs’ Norma Hunt.
From left: Detroit Lions’ Martha Firestone Ford, Chicago Bears’ Virginia McCaskey, Pittsburgh Steelers’ Patricia Rooney, and Kansas City Chiefs’ Norma Hunt. (Image credit: Erika Doss/Erika Doss Photography)

Fox News' streaming site, Fox Nation, has struck a licensing deal for the documentary film, A Lifetime of Sundays.

The film, which looks at the National Football League through the eyes of a quartet of iconic female team owners (the "Fab Four"), was produced by Jane Skinner Goodell, the former Fox News anchor and current wife of NFL commissioner Roger Goodell.

The subjects of the film are Virginia McCaskey (Chicago Bears), Martha Ford (Detroit Lions), Patricia Rooney (Pittsburgh Steelers) and Norma Hunt (Kansas City Chiefs). Jane Goodell and NFL Films interviewed them during the 2018 season about heading up billion-dollar franchises, ones they had not set out to own.

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Jane Skinner Goodell hosted the "Skinnerville" segment on former anchor Shepard Smith's "Studio B," which was then produced by current Fox News network president and executive editor Jay Wallace. Wallace went to the doc's premiere and brokered the deal for streaming/Fox Business rights, the network said.

The film is currently available to all Fox Nation subs. Fox Business will also get rights to air the documentary during "select periods."

John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.