Wouldn't the documentary have been commissioned well in advance of WWE's rights deal with Netflix? After all, if they started shooting while McMahon was still running the company, that goes back at least to early 2022 (if not even earlier).
On Tuesday, September 24, 2024 at 2:00:45 PM UTC-4 Mark Jeffries wrote: > Vince McMahon, who took his family's small regional wrestling promotion > into the WWE worldwide "sports entertainment" juggernaut, is not happy > about the docuseries about him that Netflix will drop tomorrow, claiming > that it gives the impression that the "Mr. McMahon" evil character he plays > in the WWE universe is much like his real life persona: > > > https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/vince-mcmahon-slams-mr-mcmahon-netflix-docuseries-1236010078/ > > The fact that Netflix went ahead and commissioned the series, which brings > up the shadier areas of the WWE, is rather surprising considering that > "RAW" will be moving from USA Network to the service starting in January. > One would think that they would not put on anything negative about one of > their program suppliers. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/04c156d9-9487-485c-9898-fc45622d1490n%40googlegroups.com.
