Netflix’s ‘American Vandal’ Creators Score Paramount+ Esports Mockumentary ‘Players’

The creators of Netflix‘s American Vandal have scored their next comedy series.

Tony Yacenda and Dan Perrault have scored a series order at Paramount+ for a brand new comedy mockumentary titled Players, which is set in the realm of gaming and Esports. Just like American Vandal, the new series will be filmed in documentary style, this time following a fictional League of Legends team trying to win a championship.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, CBS Studios and Funny or Die, which teamed on American Vandal, will also produce Players. League of Legends maker Riot Games is also involved in the project.

American Vandal won a Peabody Award for its first season and was on practically every Best of 2017 list. The true-crime parody follows two teenage filmmakers as they attempt to exonerate Dylan Maxwell, a high school senior who was accused of drawing dicks on 27 cars in the faculty parking lot. You can check out the trailer below.

In the new series Players, a team of gamers called LoL will be looking to win its first championship after years of close calls and disappointment. In order to win it all, they’ll need their prodigy, a 17-year-old rookie, and their 27-year-old veteran to put aside their egos and work together.

Yacenda and Perrault will serve as executive producers on the series along with Joe Farrell and Mike Farah of Funny or Die, Tim McAuliffe, Riot Games, 3Arts’ Ari Lubet and Brillstein Entertainment Partners’ Todd Sellers.

Paramount+ has recently ordered a whole bunch of comedy series that includes Players, the revival of Nickelodeon favorite iCarly, No Activity, For Heaven’s Sake, Why Women Kill and animated series Star Trek: Lower Decks, Tooning Out the News and The Harper House.

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