With Pitch Season 2 in danger of cancellation at FOX, showrunner Kevin Falls claims the show could live elsewhere. “Some conversations” have apparently taken place, with MLB network (Major League Baseball) not ruled out of the conversation, per THR:
I think that’s a good question; we talked about that. Like when Friday Night Lights got a new deal with DirecTV and then aired on NBC. There have been some conversations about that, too. There are people who don’t follow baseball who watched the show who now follow baseball. This is an hour drama that aired to 5 million people that was basically an advertisement for baseball and I don’t know if you would want to revisit it considering that you could produce the show for about half as much as a free agent closer! I’d love to see it on MLB Network. That’s certainly a conversation. If they suddenly had to pay for it, would they change anything creatively? That’s a concern but that’s a conversation you have before you close a deal with them.
However, the preferred option would of course be for Pitch to remain on FOX, and Falls has already pitched the second season to the network:
We have some ideas and have pitched some ideas to the studio and network as we were writing the finale. We want to start with Spring Training and that first day you arrive at camp. There are four or five months between the end of the season and Spring Training when a lot of personal things happen to players — injuries, surgeries, marriages, changes in the teams, firing of managers. Who is at Spring Training? Who didn’t come back? Who was traded?
Could Pitch find another home if cancelled by FOX? Stay tuned for the very latest cancel/renew updates for Pitch Season 2…
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