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Adam McKay To Host & Produce Basketball-Meets-Politics Podcast ‘Death At The Wing’
Peter White Television EditorSuccession exec producer and Vice director Adam McKay is to host and produce Death At The Wing, a narrative podcast series about a series of tragic deaths of basketball players in the 1980s and 1990s.This comes as he moves aggressively into the podcast space following a joint venture deal between his Hyperobject Industries and Three Uncanny Four Productions, the podcast company from Adam Davidson, Laura Mayer, and Sony Music Entertainment.Speaking at the IAB podcast upfronts, McKay said, “It’s about a spate of tragic deaths in the 80s and 90s in basketball with rising young stars that were either going to make it to the NBA or had just started in the NBA.