{"id":14059,"date":"2020-11-10T09:42:15","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T14:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/rtg-pacts-charles-barkleys-prodco-line\/"},"modified":"2020-11-10T09:58:14","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T14:58:14","slug":"rtg-pacts-with-charles-barkleys-prodco-for-the-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/rtg-pacts-with-charles-barkleys-prodco-for-the-line\/","title":{"rendered":"RTG Pacts with Charles Barkley\u2019s Prodco for The Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RTG Features, the newly established sister studio to SLAM, has partnered with Charles Barkley&#8217;s Round Mound Media to produce <em>The Line<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>A serialized one-hour scripted show, <em>The Line<\/em> is based on Charley Rosen\u2019s best-selling book <em>Scandals of \u201951<\/em>. The historical drama documents the real-life sports gambling crime saga that followed World War II. It examines America\u2019s loss of innocence through the eyes of two college basketball players\u2014one who uses the hypocrisy of the system he\u2019s a part of to his advantage by point-shaving and another who strives to live up to the ideal of sports by playing only for the love of the game.<\/p>\n<p>RTG is introducing <em>The Line<\/em> to buyers at the virtual American Film Market. The show will be executive produced by Barkley and his Round Mound Media, with Marc Perman and Randy Becker producing, and Aron Phillips and Matt Aronson producing for RTG Features. <em>Scandals of \u201951<\/em> was adapted by Branyon Davis and Kevin A. Garnett.<\/p>\n<p>Barkley said: \u201cI\u2019m a big fan of Charley Rosen\u2019s books, but <em>Scandals of \u201951<\/em> is especially timely to turn into a television series. It\u2019s impossible to understand the present without knowing the past, and stories like this one\u2014about cheating, racism and how easily amateur sports can be corrupted\u2014are as true today as they were 70 years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Phillips, COO at both RTG and SLAM, said: \u201cBranyon has done an amazing job expanding on the world from Charley\u2019s iconic book into a captivating and timely pilot. We knew we wanted to go big with our first scripted television project, and we\u2019re excited to bring in a seasoned showrunner to pair with him and bring this story to life.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RTG Features, the newly established sister studio to SLAM, has partnered with Charles Barkley&#8217;s Round Mound Media to produce The Line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1033,"featured_media":14061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[4171,4172,4173,4174],"class_list":["post-14059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-round-mound-media","tag-rtg-features","tag-slam","tag-the-line","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>RTG Pacts with Charles Barkley\u2019s Prodco for The Line - TVDRAMA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/rtg-pacts-with-charles-barkleys-prodco-for-the-line\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"RTG Pacts with Charles Barkley\u2019s Prodco for The Line - TVDRAMA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"RTG Features, the newly established sister studio to SLAM, has partnered with Charles Barkley&#039;s Round Mound Media to produce The Line.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/rtg-pacts-with-charles-barkleys-prodco-for-the-line\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVDRAMA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-11-10T14:42:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-11-10T14:58:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2020\/11\/scandals-51-1120.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"420\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Chelsea Regan\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Chelsea Regan\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/rtg-pacts-with-charles-barkleys-prodco-for-the-line\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/rtg-pacts-with-charles-barkleys-prodco-for-the-line\/\",\"name\":\"RTG Pacts with Charles Barkley\u2019s Prodco for The Line - TVDRAMA\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2020-11-10T14:42:15+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-11-10T14:58:14+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#\/schema\/person\/2a2c6d8fb3c7c8b4220b8877ecffb79a\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/rtg-pacts-with-charles-barkleys-prodco-for-the-line\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/rtg-pacts-with-charles-barkleys-prodco-for-the-line\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/rtg-pacts-with-charles-barkleys-prodco-for-the-line\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"RTG Pacts with Charles Barkley\u2019s Prodco for The Line\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/\",\"name\":\"TVDRAMA\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#\/schema\/person\/2a2c6d8fb3c7c8b4220b8877ecffb79a\",\"name\":\"Chelsea Regan\",\"description\":\"Chelsea Regan is the managing editor of World Screen. 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