Major Players
A24 / Channel 4
Molly Manning Walker, whose debut feature How to Have Sex won the Cannes Un Certain Regard, is teaming with A24 and Channel 4 on her debut TV series. Manning Walker is exec producing, directing and co-writing Major Players with Yasmin Joseph, who wrote on Disney+’s A Thousand Blows and A24-Apple’s upcoming Husbands starring Juno Temple.
Major Players is about two girls on the brink of adulthood and their mission to start a women’s soccer team. The series is described as a “love letter to football and a funny and wild exploration of young people in London today, tackling topics from friendship to gender politics.” (via Deadline)