HBO is getting on the multi-part documentary train. The premium cable network will adapt the 2018 biography Tiger Woods by Armen Keteyian and Jeff Benedict into a two-part documentary scheduled to air this fall.
“Don’t be surprised if it airs right around The Masters in November,” Ketayan told the hosts of the Burst Your Bubble podcast. “If you are HBO, that’s the smartest and best place to do it. I can tell you this, I have seen it now several times, including this morning when I watched the final two hours. It’s a fabulous job.”
This project is the latest in a line of would-be successors to ESPN’s The Last Dance. That network has already announced that it will follow up the series about Michael Jordan with a nine-part doc next year called Man in the Arena, which will tell Tom Brady’s story.
It is fair to wonder how entertaining any of these projects will actually be. Like Jordan, Brady and Woods each have a reputation for saying next to nothing to the media, and rarely give fans any insight into their personal lives.
While Jordan and Brady served as executive producers on their respective ESPN docu-series, it does not appear that HBO will give Woods the same control. The golf great is not listed amongst the project’s producers.
