Are you optimistic in regards to the Dallas Cowboys 2024 NFL season? Nicely, latest historical past suggests you in all probability shouldn’t be. (Giants fan over right here.) However there’s something thrilling main in to the summer season’s Dallas Cowboys coaching camp: a brand new cheerleading docuseries from director Greg Whiteley, the person behind Netflix‘s “Cheer” and “Final Likelihood U.”
“America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders,” a group of seven 45-minute episodes, will observe the squad from begin to end — which means from their auditions to the staff’s inevitable late-regular-season or early-post-season collapse. The cheerleaders are led by their longtime director Kelli Finglass.
The docuseries, which is certainly not “Cheer” Season 3 (besides it undoubtedly must be), premieres on June 20 on Netflix.
Whiteley government produces alongside Adam Leibowitz for One Potato Productions; Andrew Fried and Dane Lillegard of Boardwalk Footage and Ross M. Dinerstein and Rebecca Evans of Campfire Studios additionally government produce for his or her respective firms.
Watch the “America’s Sweethearts” trailer right here beneath — and undoubtedly, undoubtedly don’t attempt the leap splits at house.
Whitely’s prior work at Netflix has been very good: 5 seasons (and two sports activities) of “Final Likelihood U,” two seasons of “Cheer,” and considered one of “Wrestlers” are fairly the portfolio to reside as much as. Strive as we’d, IndieWire has not been in a position to get a standing replace on extra of any of these three docuseries. Sadly, it makes (some) sense as to why “America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders” isn’t just “Cheer” Season 3.
Jerry Harris, a stunter from the primary season of “Cheer” who discovered some crossover success in Hollywood, was arrested on youngster pornography costs in 2020, between Seasons 1 and a pair of. Harris was featured in a lot of Season 2; Whiteley defined the selection to IndieWire in January 2022.
“I spent a while puzzling over simply what proportion of our viewers will know the story. We shot for nearly a complete season earlier than these allegations even got here out. And so he’s a member of that staff. In fact, he exhibits up within the footage,” Whiteley stated. “And I simply saved pondering that the viewers, in the event that they know the story, it’s going to be so bizarre. They usually’re going to be asking the filmmakers, ‘What occurred? Are they going to acknowledge this? Are they only going to faux it didn’t?’ And so, the answer ended up being, ‘Let’s deal with it proper up entrance. We all know that this occurred. That is coming. We’re going to clarify it later.’”
Harris pled responsible to federal costs associated to soliciting youngster sexual abuse imagery and unlawful sexual conduct with a minor. He’s serving 12 years in a federal jail in Oklahoma Metropolis.