'A League of Their Own' Cast Breaks Down the Series' Homages to the 1992 Film (Exclusive)

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Maybelle Blair, who inspired Madonna’s character in the sports comedy-drama A League of Their Own, recently came out at age 95.Blair played for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League — the first professional women’s baseball league in the country — in the 1940s. Her story and that of the league were picked up by the 1992 film A League of Their Own, but LGBTQ representation in the movie remained subtext at best.Now, the 2022 Amazon Prime Video television reboot is highlighting AAGPBL’s queer women.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you haven’t watched the series finale of “Better Call Saul,” Season 6 Episode 13, “Saul Gone.”In the end, Jimmy McGill unbroke bad. Just when it looked like Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk) had finessed his way into a sweet plea agreement — just seven years at the most country club-like of correctional facilities (low-security FCI Butner Low, which even has a golfing program!) — he reversed course and confessed all, in Monday night’s series finale of AMC’s “Better Call Saul.”It was a finale rife with references to regret, time machines and how there’s “no shame in going back and changing your path,” as Chuck McGill (played by Michael McKean, who returns in a flashback) tells his younger brother.

Prime Video’s “A League of Their Own” series only just launched, but the show’s creators are already hard at work on a potential second season.“We’re here with you taking a break from working on Season 2 of the show,” series co-creator Will Graham told TheWrap in a recent interview. “There definitely is a lot more to this story.”The first season, out on Prime Video now, sees Carson Shaw (Abbi Jacobson), Greta Gill (D’Arcy Carden), Jo De Luca (Melanie Field) and more gather at tryouts for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, eventually settling on the story of the Rockford Peaches.

is back as the HBO franchise rewinds the clock hundreds of years in time to explore the political intrigue and personal dramas of the Targaryens on , an all-new series adapted from George R.R. Martin’s . Co-created and executive produced by Miguel Sapochnik and Ryan Condal and starring Matt Smith, Paddy Considine, Olivia Cooke and many others, the prequel finds the ruling house amid an intense battle of succession after the king fails to secure his line’s place on the throne with a male heir. While speaking to ET, the ensemble cast, including Emma D’Arcy, Eve Best, Fabien Frankel, and Steve Toussaint, breaks down their many characters’ roles in the ensuing political chess match that plays out after members of the extended Targaryen family make a claim for the throne. Chosen over Princess Rhaenys Targaryen (Eve Best) to succeed the Old King, Jaehaerys Targaryen, by the lords of Westeros, King Viserys Targaryen later finds himself in a similar predicament when he’s unable to produce a male heir and secure the line of succession. “Suddenly, when Rhaenyra’s mom dies while trying to produce an heir, she’s left without a mother.

Prime Video series of the same name.The result is entertaining enough and should win over nostalgic fans — but it’s not quite a home run.Now streaming, “A League of Their Own,” has a similar premise to the movie, which starred Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Rosie O’Donnell, Madonna, and Jon Lovitz. Created by Will Graham (“Mozart in the Jungle”) and Abbi Jacobson (“Broad City”), who also stars, the series is set in 1943 and follows the Rockford Peaches, a women’s team in the new All American Girls Professional Baseball League, formed because World War II has threatened the existence of Major League Baseball with men off fighting overseas.The series begins with Carson Shaw (Jacobson) taking a train from Idaho to Chicago for baseball tryouts.

BreAnna Bell In light of its Aug. 12 premiere, producers behind Amazon’s “A League of Their Own” spinoff series admit they’ve already started making plans for a Season 2 – which could be starting sooner than you’d think.“We’ve already started writing and bringing the story for Season 2.

Thirty years after Penny Marshall’s home run hit film “A League of Their Own” (1992) hit TV screens, a reimagined series that has the heart of the story will do the same. Created by Abbi Jacobson who also stars in the series and Will Graham, the TV show broadens the scope of storytelling that captures the women who went to play baseball while the men were away for World War II.The series does still center around the Midwestern All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, with four teams: the Rockford Peaches, Kenosha Comets, South Bend Blue Sox and Racine Belles. Will a good deal of action takes place on the diamond, more lies beyond the dugout and bases.

A League of Their Own (★★★★☆), Amazon’s sweeping, 1940s-set dramedy created by Will Graham and Abbi Jacobson, doesn’t rehash or reprise characters made famous in Penny Marshall’s beloved 1992 film. Dottie, Kit, Doris, and “All the Way” Mae aren’t in the lineup, and neither is Tom Hanks’ irascible Jimmy Dugan, manager of the Rockford Peaches in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.Of course, there’s still no crying in baseball — the movie’s best-remembered quote does earn a reprise — and the spotlight is still on the Peaches of Rockford, Illinois.

“Bullet Train,” in theaters now, he puts all of that legendary energy into his role as The Elder, one of the many mysterious figures who board a Japanese bullet train. Starring alongside Brad Pitt, he nonetheless steals every scene he’s in, which is somewhat fitting for a man that “Lost” co-creator and showrunner Damon Lindelof once referred to as the Japanese Harrison Ford.Sanada will next be seen in 2023’s “John Wick: Chapter 4,” after being courted for a villainous role in the third film (“I worked with Keanu most more than 10 years ago. We’ve known each other a long time.

Extra innings? Abbi Jacobson has a lot of stories to tell in Prime Video’s A League of Their Own — and is making it count in season 1.

Abbi Jacobson is making A League of Their Own — her own. The Broad City alum is accomplishing what she set out to do by exploring topics of sexuality and racism in her new Prime Video adaptation of the 1992 film of the same name.

Madonna’s Mae Mordabito in the 1992 film, Rosie O’Donnell has returned to the famed women’s baseball franchise in a role created specifically for the Prime Video series.Creators Will Graham and Abbi Jacobson, who also stars as Rockford Peaches catcher Carson, as well as the cast -- including D’Arcy Carden and Melanie Field, who play Mae and Doris prototypes, Greta and Jo, respectively — open up to ET about the inspiration behind O’Donnell’s character, how her role played into a key moment in season 1 and what it was like having her on set. “I mean, Rosie being in the show is huge,” says Roberta Colindrez, who plays Peaches pitcher Lupe, adding that “she was the most gracious, cool, generous co-star.”[: Some spoilers for season 1 of ]With the series wanting to expand upon the film to include the untold queer stories of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL), Jacobson couldn’t help but acknowledge O’Donnell’s own impact on the LGBTQ storytelling landscape.  “We were trying not to do a lot of cameos on the show to really differentiate it from the film, but because we are telling a lot of these queer stories and Rosie is like, a huge part of queer history, of American history, it just felt so special to have her not only approve of the show but wanna be in it and really wanna play a character that’s so different from the one that she is in the film,” Jacobson says, revealing that O’Donnell stopped by the writers’ room early in the production on season 1.

Doris was always a talker! The Rockford Peaches may huddle in their locker room before hitting the field, but it was Rosie O’Donnell who they surrounded in-between takes of Prime Video’s A League of Their Own.

A League of Their Own” TV show, streaming on August 12.The show is a reboot of the classic baseball flick from 1992, but instead of the all-star team of Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Madonna and Rosie O’Donnell, this TV series adaptation will star a brand new lineup.Abbi Jacobson of “Broad City” fame, who co-created the show with Will Graham, stars in the series. Also in the dugout are Nick Offerman, Chanté Adams, Kelly McCormack and more.

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debuted in theaters, the movie has been adapted by Abbi Jacobson and Will Graham into an expanded, original TV series for Prime Video with Jacobson also starring as catcher Carson Shaw. The historical period drama will not only tell the story about the formation of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL), but also chronicle the authentic and diverse lives of its many players — with season 1 largely focused on the women that made up the Rockford Peaches. It’s a series that will be familiar to many, while exploring new territory not previously seen on screen in this way before.