{"id":112254,"date":"2022-03-31T17:53:39","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T21:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=112254"},"modified":"2022-03-31T17:53:39","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T21:53:39","slug":"wwe-announces-drama-pinned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2022\/03\/31\/wwe-announces-drama-pinned\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE Announces Drama \u201cPinned\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

On March 31 Variety reported<\/a> <\/em>NBC Universal\u2019s announcement that it is launching a scripted drama about the world of pro wrestling. The WWE<\/strong> series, \u201cPinned\u201d is set to be produced by Universal Content Productions and World Wrestling Entertainment. <\/em>As per Variety, <\/em>NBC describes the drama as, \u201cAn adrenalized upstairs-downstairs soap that gives a behind-the-scenes look at a fictional wrestling promotion and the unforgettable characters that populate it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Much is still to be determined surrounding the drama. NBC Universal has not announced, as yet, which network the drama will be aired on. Of course, one viable and natural choice would be its streaming service, Peacock, which hosts the WWE Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n

WWE Pinned Announced<\/h2>\n

\u201cPinned\u201d is not WWE\u2019s only ongoing scripted dramatic project. In July 2021, WWE announced the scripted drama \u201cThe United States vs. Vince McMahon\u201d<\/a>. Co-produced alongside Blumhouse television, the series is a \u00a0fictionalized portrayal of Vince McMahon\u2019s 1994 trial in the wake of Dr. George Zahorian\u2019s 1991 indictment for providing steroids to pro wrestlers.<\/p>\n

With both dramas, WWE is utilizing its uniquely preeminent place in the canon of pro wrestling, and its storied and sometimes controversial history, as fodder for fictional televised stories.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, under its WWE Studios, and formerly WWE Films, brand WWE has focused on producing a variety of mostly family-friendly and action-adventure projects in the past. Recent co-productions include the Netflix collaboration \u201cEscape the Undertaker\u201d<\/a>, an interactive comedic horror film in which The New Day <\/strong>must escape \u201cThe Dead Man\u201d\u2019s clutches. WWE Studios also collaborated with Netflix in 2020 on the film \u201cThe Main Event\u201d, in which a tween receives prodigious in-ring talent upon finding a magical wrestling mask. It features WWE talent such as The Miz. <\/strong>Another streaming release, on streamer Paramount+, was 2021\u2019s Rumble.<\/em> The digitally animated family film stars WWE superstars Roman Reigns<\/strong> and Becky Lynch<\/strong> as voice talents for two of the ensemble cast\u2019s animated characters.<\/p>\n

While these projects drew on the personas of WWE\u2019s superstars or had a family-friendly pro wrestling theme, if \u201cPinned\u201d and \u201cThe United States vs. Vince McMahon\u201d are any indication WWE now seems to be pivoting towards a dramatic shift in tone for scripted co-productions.<\/p>\n

Stay tuned to the\u00a0Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a>\u00a0for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world. You can check out an almost unlimited array of WWE content on the\u00a0WWE Network<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Peacock<\/a>.<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On March 31 Variety reported NBC Universal\u2019s announcement that it is launching a scripted drama about the world of pro wrestling. The WWE series, \u201cPinned\u201d is set to be produced by Universal Content Productions and World Wrestling Entertainment. As per Variety, NBC describes the drama as, \u201cAn adrenalized upstairs-downstairs soap that gives a behind-the-scenes look […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4152,"featured_media":74533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4],"tags":[163,4615,77,55,223,297,241],"class_list":["post-112254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-wwe","tag-becky-lynch","tag-netflix","tag-roman-reigns","tag-the-miz","tag-the-new-day","tag-the-undertaker","tag-vince-mcmahon"],"modified_by":"Dominic Padula","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}