Brockmire is an American sitcom that premiered on IFC on April 5, 2017. The show stars Hank Azaria, Amanda Peet, and Tyrel Jackson Williams. Azaria plays a baseball play-by-play announcer. On April 5, right before its premiere, it was announced that IFC had renewed the show for a second 8-episode season, due to air in 2018.
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Cast
Main cast
- Hank Azaria as Jim Brockmire
- Amanda Peet as Jules James
- Tyrel Jackson Williams as Charles
- Paul Rae as Dale
Recurring cast
- Hemky Madera as Pedro Uribe
- Adan Rocha as Danny Cruz
- Steve Coulter as Coach Pom Pom
- Ryan Lee as John Elton
- Alex Phipps as Ryan Stanton
- Daisuke Tsuji as Yoshi Takatsu
- Ethan Daniels as Bat Boy Calhoun
- Toby Huss as Johnny the Hat
- Katie Finneran as Lucy Brockmire
- David Walton as Gary
- Brian F. Durkin as Robbie Butler
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Development
In 2010, Azaria debuted the character of Jim Brockmire in the third episode of the Funny or Die web-series Gamechangers, entitled "A Legend in the Booth". Brockmire is a baseball play-by-play announcer who is fired after a profanity-filled breakdown while live on air after discovering his wife was having an affair. Azaria based the character's voice and broadcasting style on Bob Murphy and Phil Rizzuto.
Azaria later appeared as Brockmire in 2012 on the NFL Network's The Rich Eisen Podcast to discuss the National Football League. In November 2012, with Azaria fielding offers for a movie based on the character, he sued actor Craig Bierko over the ownership of the Brockmire voice. Bierko claimed that he helped develop the character. Azaria won the case in 2014, as Gary Allen Feess, a United States district judge, ruled that, though both actors had been using a baseball announcer voice before and since meeting at a party in 1990, only Azaria's voice was, as Brockmire, a defined, "tangible" character and thus subject to copyright.
In February 2016, IFC ordered a comedy series based on Brockmire's character. In the series, Brockmire returns to a broadcasting booth in Minor League Baseball ten years after his last baseball broadcasting job. The show is written by Joel Church-Cooper and directed by Tim Kirkby. Azaria, Church-Cooper, Kirkby and Mike Farah and Joe Farrell from Funny Or Die are the series' executive producers. Amanda Peet joined the series in May 2016 as the owner of the Morristown Frackers, a Minor League Baseball team in the Rust Belt that hires Brockmire as their new announcer. Tyrel Jackson Williams was cast as an intern and assistant to Brockmire in June 2016. Baseball writers and broadcasters who will have cameo appearances include Joe Buck, Jonah Keri, Brian Kenny, and Tim Kurkjian. Baseball scenes of the show were filmed at Luther Williams Field in Macon, Georgia.
Reception
The first season of Brockmire earned a 94% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The site's critics consensus read: "Brockmire insinuates itself as the series goes on, elevated by assured, compelling performances from Hank Azaria and Amanda Peet -- and a raw humor all its own."
In its first season, Brockmire was IFC's highest-rated new series and cable's most time-shifted new comedy, averaging over 500,000 live-plus-three-day viewers per episode.
Episodes
Season 1 (2017)
References
External links
- Official website
- Brockmire on IMDb
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