Micah Richards Fronts Sky Series ‘Player Pranks’ – Global Bulletin
20.07.2022 - 12:59
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Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefFormer Manchester City and England soccer player Micah Richards fronts “Player Pranks,” a show commissioned by Sky, produced by Zig Zag and Krempelwood. The show sees the Premier League winner team up with his Sky Sports colleague Adam ‘Smithy’ Smith for a top-secret mission to prank the great and good of football.
In each 30-minute episode, Micah and Smith take to the field with hidden cameras, ingenious props and comic actors to inject mayhem into the lives of some of the U.K.’s most famous soccer personalities, when they least expect it. Stars include former professional soccer player and manager, Chris Kamara, England national soccer star Jill Scott, Micah’s fellow Sky Sports pundit and former Liverpool defender, Jamie Carragher, and former Spurs and England star Jermaine Jenas.
The four-part series will air on Sky Max and Sky Sports this August as part of the countdown to the 2022/23 soccer season.Danny Fenton, CEO at Zig Zag said: “Bringing together the infectious Micah Richards in conjunction with Adam ‘Smithy’ Smith and a series of pranks played on football legends for Sky feels like the perfect entertainment combination. We hope the viewers have half as much fun watching it as we did making it.”Barbara Lee, commissioning editor at Sky said: “We are huge fans of Micah Richards at Sky Max and are delighted to be working with him.
He brings infectious fun to everything he does so he’s perfectly cast in this as a mischievous prankster.”Former Disney executive Rob Gilby has been appointed by Dentsu International, the multinational advertising agency, as its CEO in the Asia Pacific region. Replacing Ashish Bhasin, who retired in December, Gilby will start from Sept.
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