Brockmire is an American comedy television series that premiered on April 5, 2017 on IFC. The show stars Hank Azaria, Amanda Peet, and Tyrel Jackson Williams. Azaria plays a baseball play-by-play announcer. On April 5, right before its premiere, it was announced that IFC had renewed the show for a second 8-episode season, which premiered on April 25, 2018. On March 29, 2018, it was announced that IFC had renewed the series for a third and fourth season.
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Premise
Brockmire follows Jim Brockmire, "a famed Major League Baseball announcer who suffers an embarrassing and very public meltdown on the air after discovering his beloved wife's serial infidelity. A decade later, he decides to reclaim his career and love life in a small town, calling minor league ball for the Morristown Frackers."
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Cast and characters
Main
- Hank Azaria as Jim Brockmire, an alcoholic, drug-using former Kansas City broadcaster fired in 2007 for an on-air tirade against his unfaithful wife (along with a press conference where he tries to set things right but only makes them worse). In the ten years since, he spent most of his time in Asian countries calling more non-traditional sporting events, such as cock-fighting.
- Amanda Peet as Jules James, the owner of the Morristown Frackers (formerly Savages), which her father originally owned, along with the town's main bar. She is extremely competitive and will do anything to attract fans to the games.
- Tyrel Jackson Williams as Charles, the Frackers head of digital media, responsible for webcasts of the games. Although very talented with computers and technology, he possesses little athletic ability-or indeed interest in sports (including baseball).
Recurring
- Paul Rae as Dale, a Morristown resident who acts in stereotypical-redneck fashion, frequenting both Frackers home games and the local bar. In season 2, it is revealed that he died in a meth lab fire.
- Hemky Madera as Pedro Uribe, a baseball player for the Morristown Frackers, as well as a former Major League all-star.
- Molly Ephraim as Bartender
- Adan Rocha as Danny Cruz, a baseball player for the Morristown Frackers.
- Steve Coulter as Coach Pom Pom, coach for the Morristown Frackers.
- Ryan Lee as John Elton, a baseball player for the Morristown Frackers.
- Alex Phipps as Ryan Stanton, a baseball player for the Morristown Frackers.
- Daisuke Tsuji as Yoshi Takatsu, a baseball player for the Morristown Frackers, formerly a professional in Japan.
- Ethan Daniels as Bat Boy Calhoun
- Toby Huss as Johnny the Hat
- Katie Finneran as Lucy Brockmire, Brockmire's sexually adventurous ex-wife.
- David Walton as Gary
- Brian F. Durkin as Robbie Butler
- Utkarsh Ambudkar as Raj, Brockmire's broadcasting partner for the Atlanta minor league affiliate New Orleans Crawdaddies, as well as his main competitor for a big-league broadcasting job.
Episodes
Season 1 (2017)
Season 2 (2018)
Production
Development
In 2010, Azaria debuted the character of Jim Brockmire in the third episode of the Funny or Die web-series Gamechangers, entitled "A Legend in the Booth". Brockmire is a baseball play-by-play announcer who is fired after a profanity-filled breakdown while live on air after discovering his wife was having an affair. Azaria based the character's voice and broadcasting style on Bob Murphy and Phil Rizzuto.
Azaria later appeared as Brockmire in 2012 on the NFL Network's The Rich Eisen Podcast to discuss the National Football League. In November 2012, with Azaria fielding offers for a movie based on the character, he sued actor Craig Bierko over the ownership of the Brockmire voice. Bierko claimed that he helped develop the character. Azaria won the case in 2014, as Gary Allen Feess, a United States district judge, ruled that, though both actors had been using a baseball announcer voice before and since meeting at a party in 1990, only Azaria's voice was, as Brockmire, a defined, "tangible" character and thus subject to copyright. In February 2016, IFC ordered a comedy series based on Brockmire's character. In the series, Brockmire returns to a broadcasting booth in Minor League Baseball ten years after his last baseball broadcasting job. The show is written by Joel Church-Cooper and directed by Tim Kirkby. Azaria, Church-Cooper, Kirkby and Mike Farah and Joe Farrell from Funny Or Die are the series' executive producers.
On April 5, 2017, right before its premiere, it was announced that IFC had renewed the show for a second 8-episode season, which will premiere on April 25, 2018. On March 29, 2018, it was announced that IFC had renewed the series for a third and fourth season.
Casting
Amanda Peet joined the series in May 2016 as the owner of the Morristown Frackers, a Minor League Baseball team in the Rust Belt that hires Brockmire as their new announcer. Tyrel Jackson Williams was cast as an intern and assistant to Brockmire in June 2016. Baseball writers and broadcasters who had cameo appearances in the first season included Joe Buck, Jonah Keri, Brian Kenny, and Tim Kurkjian.
Filming
Baseball scenes of the show were filmed at Luther Williams Field in Macon, Georgia.
Reception
Critical
The first season of Brockmire has been met with a positive response from critics. On the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the first season holds a 94% approval rating with an average rating of 6.72 out of 10 based on 17 reviews. The site's critics consensus read: "Brockmire insinuates itself as the series goes on, elevated by assured, compelling performances from Hank Azaria and Amanda Peet -- and a raw humor all its own." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the season a score of 79 out of 100 based on 15 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
Awards and nominations
Viewers
In its first season, Brockmire was IFC's highest-rated new series and cable's most time-shifted new comedy, averaging over 500,000 live-plus-three-day viewers per episode.
References
External links
- Official website
- Brockmire on IMDb
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