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ESPN Films said Tuesday that it is at work on The Captain, a multi-part documentary series about soon-to-be Hall of Fame New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter. It is slated to premiere sometime in 2022 on ESPN and ESPN+. The news was announced during ESPN parent company Disney’s upfronts call with reporters. The…

Former New York Yankee Derek Jeter’s media ambitions are scoring in financial circles: His outfit, The Players’ Tribune — which handles athlete-produced text, audio, and video content — says today it fielded $9.5 million in Series B financing from a group that includes Legendary Entertainment’s Thomas Tull and New…

Fast-growing online video site Whistle Sports has lined up a big new teammate, announcing a $7 million investment from European satellite-TV powerhouse BSkyB this morning in London, part of a larger Series B round of fundraising for the sports-oriented site, which already counts among its early investors such star…

After losing the first Thursday of the TV season to ABC's Jimmy Kimmel, NBC's Tonight Show star Jimmy Fallon recruited Derek Jeter and climbed to the top, in the metered market households: 3.0 vs 2.7. Fallon also edged out Jimmy Kimmel Live in the demo, in Local People Meters, 1.1  rating to 1.0. One week earlier…

Does the former New York Yankees captain and likely Hall of Fame shoo-in — whose 20-year baseball playing career ended on Sunday — want to become a media mogul? If so, then this is his lead-off hit: Derek Jeter is the Founding Publisher of a Web site, The Players’ Tribune, that promises this morning to provide…

Shonda Rhimes’ Thursday-night trio – Scandal, Grey’s Anatomy and newcomer How To Get Away With Murder – collectively dominated the first week of fall Twitter TV ratings, coming in at Nos. 1, 4 and 6 respectively on this week’s table for series and specials. On the sports side, Derek Jeter’s last game proved enough of…

EXCLUSIVE: Major League Baseball’s online streaming service set a viewing record for a single game last night with the New York Yankees captain’s final game in pinstripes — where, in a moment almost too dramatically perfect to believe, he drove in the game-winning run. Fans accessed 641,000 streams, beating by 18% the…

The Weinstein Company docu Bully has really touched a nerve. In the latest promotion for the Lee Hirsch-directed film, New York Yankees stars Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera, Alex Rodriguez, Curtis Granderson and manager Joe Girardi took time to do a PSA to urge the audience to sign on to a website for the film and its…