Peacock shoots its shot with a WNBA comedy, The W  

Based in part on the careers of Ogwumike and her agent, Allison Galer, The W will follow a hot-shot rookie through the cutthroat world of pro sports. The scripted series will be a half-hour long, which means it’s a comedy, and explore the “glamour and grind” of women’s sports, which doesn’t sound funny, but we’ll reserve judgment for the finished product and not a second earlier.

The W continues television’s five-year project to find a basketball TV show that lasts longer than NBC’s Hang Time. Over the past five years, basketball shows have become a staple of the television landscape, presumably with increased interest in the NBA and WNBA. However, networks and streamers have yet to find a slam dunk (hey, we remembered another basketball term). Over the past five years, we’ve seen quite a few air balls (swish), whether it be Disney+’s Big Shot, AppleTV+’s Swagger, and Clipped, a miniseries that clearly ripped-off the ad campaign for the Taraji P. Henson vehicle What Men Want, but we digress. Maybe the problem with basketball shows is similar to Herbie Hancock’s theory of music: “If all you see are dudes in the audience, that means your music is dead.”

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