Showtime Debuts Weekly Sports Block

Showtime debuts a Tuesday sports block Sept. 6, with 60 Minutes Sports on at 8 p.m, followed by the ninth season of Inside the NFL at 9, then the second installment of its “all-access” college football franchise A Season With Florida State Football at 10.  

New editions of 60 Minutes Sports, a collaboration with corporate sibling CBS News, air the first Tuesday of every month. In the September episode, Broncos linebacker Von Miller talks about holding out for a new contract.

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Inside the NFL airs weekly. James Brown, Phil Simmons and Boomer Esiason join Brandon Marshall in the booth; Marshall is also a wide receiver with the New York Jets.

A Season With Florida State, too, airs weekly on Tuesdays. The series “delivers exclusive sights, sounds and drama from the entire high-stakes season unlike any other show on television,” according to Showtime.

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Michael Malone

Michael Malone is content director at B+C and Multichannel News. He joined B+C in 2005 and has covered network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television, including writing the "Local News Close-Up" market profiles. He also hosted the podcasts "Busted Pilot" and "Series Business." His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The L.A. Times, The Boston Globe and New York magazine.