ABC Considering a Sitcom Based on the Life of Sportscenter Anchor Sage Steele
ABC is considering a sitcom based on the life of ESPN Sportscenter anchor Sage Steele, sources tell me. Steele, who joined ESPN in 2007, was originally approached about a show in May 2011 with this idea: a woman in a man’s world (ESPN) with a stay-at-home husband and three kids living in a small town. Toss in the bi-racial aspect of her marriage (her husband is white) and you’ve got a Modern Family-type show with a dash of sports.
Steele didn’t return a phone call seeking comment.
This wouldn’t be the first time network TV attempted to make a show based on someone at ESPN. Previously, Mike Greenberg (submitted a pilot, it was rejected, and he’s re-writing), Mark Schelereth (pilot made, show wasn’t picked up) and Colin Cowherd (pilot made, show wasn’t picked up) have all been pursued by network TV executives.
According to a source, the show about Steele was tabled in 2011 after it couldn’t settle on writers, but the option was picked up in September 2012 and ABC is currently in the process of finding writers.
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November 1st, 2012 at 3:47 PM
This wouldn’t be the first time network TV attempted to make a show based on someone at ESPN. Previously, Mike Greenberg (submitted a pilot, it was rejected, and he’s re-writing), Mark Schelereth (pilot made, show wasn’t picked up) and Colin Cowherd (pilot made, show wasn’t picked up) have all been pursued by network TV executives.
How could you forget Kornheiser that actually aired on actual tv?
November 1st, 2012 at 3:48 PM
So this will be the last we hear about this one until it is added to the list when mentioning the Stat Boy pilot.
November 1st, 2012 at 3:49 PM
Jason Alexander and Malcolm-Jamal Warner. How could it have failed?
November 1st, 2012 at 3:50 PM
And here we have again the failing of ESPN/ABC execs to realize it is about the sports, that’s what people care about. They don’t care about Who’s Now or the actual sportscasters.
November 1st, 2012 at 3:54 PM
Cleet, that’s way too intelligent of a comment.
November 1st, 2012 at 3:54 PM
Chris Rock w a pussy
November 1st, 2012 at 3:55 PM
New plot:
“My 3 Dads” where Mike, Mark, and Colin each donated at sperm bank. Due to carelessness, the samples were mixed. An unsuspecting african-american lady injects herself with this vile mixture and 9 months later, Sage Steele is born. At some point in her adult life, she goes off to find daddy. She finds out about the mix-up in the fertility clinic and they all move in together.
/4 birds, 1 stone
November 1st, 2012 at 3:55 PM
didnt she give jalen rose a blumpkin in a talledega infield port-o-potty?
November 1st, 2012 at 3:56 PM
Forgot to add – and then hijinks happen.
November 1st, 2012 at 3:56 PM
HOW DID YOU GET THIS NUMBER!
November 1st, 2012 at 3:57 PM
bwahahahaha!!!
November 1st, 2012 at 3:58 PM
/fixed
November 1st, 2012 at 4:00 PM
I knew she was farther right than Patricia Heaton, but I didn’t realize she married an Anglo.
November 1st, 2012 at 4:02 PM
(her husband is white)
While that is nice, I believe whether or not said husband has a “V-shaped” back is much more pertinent to this discussion.
November 1st, 2012 at 4:02 PM
And here we have again the failing of ESPN/ABC execs to realize it is about the sports, that’s what people care about. They don’t care about Who’s Now or the actual sportscasters.
This Greatest Athlete thing is the latest round of nonsense.
November 1st, 2012 at 4:04 PM
Does that mean her and Paula Patton are BFF’s?
November 1st, 2012 at 4:05 PM
I met a guy in the Roundup who is a writer, but calls himself a “freelancer.” You should send him a message as to where to send his resume and writing samples so that his bitch hoar of a wife will get off his back. Poor guy.
November 1st, 2012 at 4:06 PM
Reality TV show in which Nancy Reagan is sentenced for a week with a cast of prisoners locked up for life on the 100 to 1 drug war laws.
November 1st, 2012 at 4:06 PM
Since Modern Family is already on the air, he’s facing a major retooling.
November 1st, 2012 at 4:07 PM
Sage Steele could poop in my mouth without charge.
November 1st, 2012 at 4:07 PM
#joebush
November 1st, 2012 at 4:07 PM
This is what I’m actually waiting for:
ABC Considering a Sitcom Based on the Life of TBL impresario Jason McIntyre, his staff and the lovable collection of ne’er-do-wells and nattering nabobs called “La Commentaria”
November 1st, 2012 at 4:07 PM
Don’t do this, Rodney, or he’ll switch back to “#petty cowards.”
November 1st, 2012 at 4:08 PM
Wait, Sage Steele isn’t the one with the boots that’s married to the black guy? I’m confused. Is Sage Steele black or is Hannah Storm in boots (that get knocked by giant black cock)?
November 1st, 2012 at 4:08 PM
All cast costumes come in smedium only.
November 1st, 2012 at 4:08 PM
I’d like to caucus that.
Remember…vote early vote often
November 1st, 2012 at 4:09 PM
Chris Rock w a pussy
She has a stay-at-home-husband?? Hmmmmm….
November 1st, 2012 at 4:09 PM
I think a linda cohn show would be more interesting. In a Girls sorta way
November 1st, 2012 at 4:10 PM
Only one guy can play me on screen…Todd Bridges.
November 1st, 2012 at 4:10 PM
Does your computer not get pictures?
November 1st, 2012 at 4:10 PM
Very clever Mr. Deep 6
November 1st, 2012 at 4:10 PM
I don’t care about her politics, I volunteer to play Sage Steele’s husband.
I also volunteer to play Samantha Steele’s boyfriend when she dumps Ponder.
/ No interest in anything to do with Lexington Steele
November 1st, 2012 at 4:11 PM
The WB/strong> Considering a Sitcom Based on the Life of TBL impresario Jason McIntyre, his staff and the lovable collection of ne’er-do-wells and nattering nabobs called “La Commentaria”
/fixed
November 1st, 2012 at 4:11 PM
Nice work, detective. Did you ever close the case on her crazy-eyes come-on she had with one Mr. Rose at a NASCAR event?
November 1st, 2012 at 4:12 PM
I was thinking more Kyrie Irving in his old-man makeup for that role.
/ Wakka-wakka-wakka
November 1st, 2012 at 4:12 PM
Well fuck me.
November 1st, 2012 at 4:12 PM
Not really.
November 1st, 2012 at 4:12 PM
Why do we keep going to Mexican restaurants?
Should we be talking about this?
November 1st, 2012 at 4:13 PM
/ Fixed fix’d
November 1st, 2012 at 4:14 PM
/Team If I was Samantha Steele’s boyfriend I would date and bang her because I’m not a delusional retard raised by cretins.
November 1st, 2012 at 4:14 PM
Nada, I would agree except for one thing. Irving had way too much hair. Real old guys normally don’t have that much hair…on their domes, that is.
November 1st, 2012 at 4:15 PM
Truth
November 1st, 2012 at 4:16 PM
The CW Considering a Sitcom Based on the Life of TBL impresario Jason McIntyre, his staff and the lovable collection of ne’er-do-wells and nattering nabobs called “La Commentaria”
/fixed
/ Fixed fix’d
Thanks.
November 1st, 2012 at 4:17 PM
cursory google search didn’t have any information on Steele being conservative. What are you guys basing this on?
November 1st, 2012 at 4:17 PM
If schlereth played himself id watch that in a spectacular crash way
November 1st, 2012 at 4:22 PM
another example of espn thinking people give a shit about their on air personalities.
these stories make me mad.
November 1st, 2012 at 4:22 PM
Making fun of people who admire Collin Klein’s lifestyle choice.
November 1st, 2012 at 4:27 PM
Whos got a commenter preview of miami-vt?
November 1st, 2012 at 4:29 PM
If you went to VT, you might watch some of it.
/fin
November 1st, 2012 at 4:31 PM
Talib to the pats
November 1st, 2012 at 4:32 PM
Ooh, ooh, me first
/Coop’d
November 1st, 2012 at 4:33 PM
Sage Steele could poop in my mouth without charge.
She charges more for an hour than you make in a day…
November 1st, 2012 at 4:36 PM
Believe me, the day that fat oaf Berman drops dead of a coronary, I will care.
/ Sorry, retires or drops dead
November 1st, 2012 at 4:38 PM
Well, her name is Steele, and she’s black, so she must be related to Michael Steele, and he was famous as the only black Republican at that one convention back then.
November 2nd, 2012 at 7:50 AM
Except a judge sentences him to be our butler. GOLD.
November 2nd, 2012 at 8:24 AM
Pre-Castration Kornheiser > Linda Cohn’s 12 toes > Magnum PI Feinstein > Post-Castration Kornheiser > Jim Rome > Mike and Mikier > Sage Steele