New Documentary Series to Follow Birmingham City Football Club's Promotion in Defining Season
Cameras following the players, staff and owners of Birmingham City Football Club ("Birmingham City") as the club fights to instil a winning culture and climb the football pyramid
Untitled documentary series to launch Summer 2025 on Prime Video worldwide in over 200 countries
Birmingham City's promotion to the EFL Sky Bet Championship will be the subject of a brand-new, behind-the-scenes documentary to launch on Prime Video worldwide in Summer 2025.
Embedded camera crews have followed the First-Team players, coaching staff and key ownership figures from pre-season to promotion, including Birmingham City's Chairman Tom Wagner, Co-Founder and Co-Managing Member of Knighthead Capital Management, LLC ("Knighthead"), and American football legend, Tom Brady, as the club fights to instil a winning culture and climb the English football pyramid. Beyond the day-to-day football operations, the documentary will also explore the unique cultural heritage of Birmingham City and a supporter base who have remained loyal despite a sustained period without success or silverware. The documentary will shine a spotlight on this community's resurgence, illustrating how the football club plans to drive its transformation.
The journey of Birmingham City will be executive produced by Steven Knight, the creator of Peaky Blinders and a lifelong Blues fan. Knight will bring his deep connection to the Club and storytelling expertise to the project, ensuring a genuine portrayal of Birmingham City's transformation. Matt Alvarez (Straight Outta Compton, Are We There Yet?, Straight Outta LA, the Friday franchise) of Knighthead and Board member of the Club will serve as an executive producer. The documentary will be produced by Religion of Sports (Rodgers: Enigma, In the Arena: Serena Williams, Kobe Bryant's Muse) and Whisper (Sven, Ben Stokes: Phoenix from the Ashes). The project was conceived by Tom Brady and Religion of Sports co-founder, Gotham Chopra, following Brady joining as minority owner of Birmingham City in 2023.
The series will be co-directed by Chopra and Claudia Corbisiero (Sven), bringing a cinematic and in-depth perspective to Birmingham City's story.
The series joins Prime Video's collection of exclusive sports documentaries and docuseries including: All or Nothing: Arsenal; Doubters to Believers Liverpool FC: Klopp's Era; 99; Ben Stokes: Phoenix from the Ashes; We Are Newcastle United; Take Us Home: Leeds United, When Eagles Dare; and more. This is alongside a wide selection of live sport on Prime Video, including UEFA Champions League football in the UK, NFL Thursday Night Football in the United States and from later this year, the NBA globally.
About Prime Video
Prime Video is a first-stop entertainment destination offering customers a vast collection of premium programming in one app available across thousands of devices. On Prime Video, customers can customize their viewing experience and find their favourite movies, series, documentaries, and live sports - including Amazon MGM Studios-produced series and movies Red One, Road House, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Fallout, Reacher, The Boys, Cross, and The Idea of You; UK produced Originals such as Molly-Mae; Behind it All, Clarkson's Farm, The Rig, The Grand Tour and 007: Road To A Million, licensed fan favourites Nine Perfect Strangers and The Continental: From The World of John Wick; exclusive live sport such as UEFA Champions League; and programming from partners such as Apple TV+, hayu, Paramount +, discovery+ Premium (incl. TNT Sport) and Crunchyroll via Prime Video add-on subscriptions, as well as more than 700 free ad-supported (FAST) Channels globally. Prime Video is one benefit among many that provides savings, convenience, and entertainment as part of the Prime membership. All customers, regardless of whether they have a Prime membership or not, can rent or buy titles via the Prime Video Store, and can enjoy even more content for free with ads. Customers can also go behind the scenes of their favourite movies and series with exclusive X-Ray access. For more info visit www.amazon.co.uk/primevideo.
About Religion of Sport
Religion of Sports (ROS) is an award-winning media company founded by Tom Brady, Michael Strahan, and Gotham Chopra. A diverse creative collective, ROS delivers thoughtful, elevated stories that explore a range of themes and uncover why sports matter. Since its inception in 2017, the Los Angeles based company has built an impressive array of work in collaboration with the world's most beloved athletes and figures. ROS produces content that is intimate, personal, and character driven. Rooted in the power of storytelling, ROS's mission has grown beyond sports to spotlighting artists and innovators across music, spirituality, fashion, and more. Through scripted and unscripted video, podcasts, feature films and social content, ROS distills the spirituality, science and humanity that unites elite performers and people of all kinds.
About Whisper
The Whisper Group is a leading global multi-genre production company, delivering sports, documentaries, branded content, esports, events and unscripted entertainment at scale and quality.
With teams across the UK, EMEA, US and Australasia, Whisper creates and delivers broadcast and digital content for premium clients, working across global events including Formula One, UEFA Champions League, Wimbledon, Roland Garros, The Paralympics, FIFA World Cup and UEFA Women's EURO.
Whisper produces innovative and creative campaigns for brands like Red Bull, BOSE, NEOM and Peloton, while also designing and delivering events such as EA's esports series, BBC Sports Personality of the Year and FIFA Best. Across documentaries and unscripted entertainment, Whisper develops and executes award-winning documentaries (Ben Stokes: Phoenix From The Ashes and Sven), and highly-acclaimed popular quiz shows (Pictionary, Jeopardy! And Wheel of Fortune). Whisper works with leading streamers and broadcasters, including Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, YouTube, DAZN, BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5.
Whisper's creativity and storytelling is BAFTA winning and Emmy International nominated. It is a Sunday Times Best Places to Work, and co-owned by Sony Pictures Television.
About Knighthead Capital Management, LLC
Knighthead Capital Management, LLC ("Knighthead") was co-founded in 2008 by Tom Wagner and Ara Cohen and has grown to become a diversified asset management platform with an experienced team of investment professionals, specializing in fundamental analysis, operational and financial turnarounds and risk management. Knighthead's long-term objective is to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns for its clients while emphasizing the preservation of capital. Knighthead Capital manages assets across a variety of investment vehicles including insurance asset management, real estate lending, and closed and open-ended vehicles.
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