In a competitive situation, Paramount Television Studios and Skydance Sports have landed the spec script “Knockouts” from writers Clara Nevins and Harper Oreck, Variety has learned exclusively.
\n\nPer the official logline, the show is “set against the glossy world of SEC sports and Southern sorority life, where four girls in a bottom-tier sorority use their insider knowledge to build an illegal sports betting ring out of their basement.”
\n\nBoth Nevins and Oreck are executive producers in addition to writing. Marty Bowen, Wyck Godfrey, and James Seidman will executive produce via Temple Hill. Paramount TV Studios and Skydance Sports will co-produce.
\n\nNevins and Oreck graduated from Harvard in 2023, where they originally met and started writing together. Nevins was previously an assistant at Counterpart Studios, while Oreck recently completed a master’s degree in gender studies at the University of Cambridge. They previously worked together on the short film “Tank Top.”
\n\nThey are repped by UTA and Kaplan Perrone. Temple Hill is repped by UTA.
\n\nSports betting has become the focus of renewed scrutiny in recent years with the launch of numerous betting apps that have given people the ability to wager as much as they want right from their phones. There…
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