Discovery+ Courts Viewers With Dwyane Wade, Son Zaire Docuseries, ‘Inventions That Changed History’ & Two Additions To ‘Undiscovered’ Strand
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Imagine being the son of NBA great Dwyane Wade – one of the game’s all-time greats – and wanting to play basketball too.That’s the reality for Zaire Wade, Dwyane’s eldest son, who was drafted last October by the Salt Lake City Stars of the NBA G League.
Zaire, who turns 20 on Friday, has got some skills like his father, who just turned 40.“Now, when I ask him to play [1-on-1],” Zaire said in a recent interview, “he doesn’t want to play me no more.
He says he’s too old.”Joking aside, those are some big shoes to fill. The six-part documentary series Legacy: In the Shadow of Greatness, launching on the Discovery+ streaming platform on March 8, explores what it’s like to be the offspring of a famous athlete and, like your dad, wanting to excel in sport.Jonathan Hock, winner of 11 Emmys, directs the series that follows “the athletic pursuits of the children of sports icons Dwyane Wade, Evander Holyfield, and Randall Cunningham as they attempt to break out from their parents’ shadows and become legends in their own right”.Legacy: In the Shadow of Greatness is among the new documentary series and films that Discovery+ will be announcing at its winter TCA presentation later today.Elsewhere, new offerings include Inventions That Changed History, which launches on March 31, a six-part series that tells the stories behind the world’s most important inventions, and two new additions to the Undiscovered strand of documentaries.
Undiscovered: Edgewood, which launches on May 19, uncovers bizarre and top secret drug experiments that were performed on U.S.
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