In each show’s 22-minute episodes, Berger and an adventurous goat puppet named Earv travel around the world in search of the Greatest of All Time (GOAT) in various sports disciplines. They’ll explore different countries and cultures, interviewing a wide variety of athletes who may be professional league players in traditional sports like soccer or football, or experts in more unusual activities such as extreme ironing.
This is the studio’s first sports-focused project, and the content genre is really heating up right now with kids and buyers globally, says president of television Halle Stanford. “Why haven’t we done this before?” she jokes. “We know there are a few things that bring families together: nostalgia, music, comedy and sports.”
Earv will drive laughs with his potential for physical comedy (he can be rolled down a bowling alley, for example, or punted between football goalposts). But Stanford also expects the show to have a lot of heart as athletes open up to Earv about their struggles and secrets for success. She adds that Henson wants The Ultimate GOAT to inspire kids to find the GOAT inside themselves.
Berger created this series concept with Henson puppeteer and actor Victor Yerrid, who is performing Earv, as well as writing scripts and executive producing along with Lisa Henson and Stanford.
No network or premiere date for The Ultimate GOAT has been announced yet.
