Moses Storm Joins Paramount+’s ‘Player’s As Recurring; Sean Yves Lessard To Recur In Syfy’s ‘Reginald The Vampire’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Paramount+ has added Moses Storm (I’m Dying Up Here) to its upcoming esports series Players. The docu-style series comes from Peabody-Award winning American Vandal co-creators Tony Yacenda and Dan Perrault, Funny or Die, Riot Games and CBS Studios.Co-created and executive produced by Yacenda and Perrault, who also directs, Players follows a fictional pro League of Legends esports team, as they pursue their first championship after years of close calls and heartache.
To win it all, they will need their prodigy, a 17-year-old rookie, and their 27-year-old veteran to put their egos aside and work together.Players is produced by CBS Studios in association with Funny Or Die.
Funny Or Die’s Joe Farrell and Mike Farah also serve as executive producers alongside Tim McAuliffe, Riot Games, 3Arts’ Ari Lubet and Brillstein Entertainment Partners’ Todd Sellers.Storm will recur as Guru.
A former member of the team who transitioned to streaming instead, Guru is a brash, showboating “bro” type, with swagger and arrogance to spare.
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