Kim Kardashian's Team Moms: Baseball Premieres on Paramount+
Kim Kardashian executive produces Team Moms: Baseball, a Paramount+ reality series about parents at a Scottsdale academy, which the Guardian likens to Real Housewives.
Team Moms: Baseball, a reality series about the parents of boys at a Scottsdale, Arizona baseball academy, premieres on Paramount+ on Thursday, with Kim Kardashian attached as executive producer.
The show follows a group of parents whose sons attend Legendary Prep Academy. Produced by the Love Island (ITV America) team for Paramount Skydance. It has more in common with Bravo's Real Housewives franchise than with ESPN's 30 for 30.
The reviewer reads the title as a deliberate play on MTV's Teen Mom. In their account, the eight episodes of about an hour each are not built around the 13- and 14-year-old players. They centre on the middle-aged parents and what the review calls vicarious glory, immediate social capital and social validation.
The opening title sequence sets that tone. It cuts family portraits together with shots of the boys' glove work.
It values the US youth-sports industry at $40bn and says it is now under pressure from private equity. It also says the industry is taking ever larger shares of family budgets. The series offers no real insight into either point.
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