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Why sports are queuing up to be captured in real time and swarming to TV platforms

Related Topics: Leo Pearlman, Audrey Hale

Next week it will be Augusta National. This Sunday, Melbourne’s Albert Park. Earlier this month, Twickenham and the Stade de France.

These days, not a weekend passes without a camera crew stalking sport stars in the heat and hidden corners of battle. Over time, those rare glimpses are stitched together to form the next behind-the-scenes documentary. It is an industry snowballing on a swelling number of streaming platforms.

‘Every sport, every team and every individual wants one of these shows made about them,’ says Leo Pearlman, executive producer of hit Netflix series Sunderland ‘Til I Die.