FX has ordered two seasons of a new docuseries about actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney purchasing and running one of the world’s oldest professional soccer clubs, Welsh football team Wrexham AFC, the cable channel said Tuesday.
Titled “Welcome to Wrexham,” the show will track “the dreams and people of Wrexham, a working-class town in North Wales, UK, as two Hollywood stars take ownership of the town’s historic yet struggling football club.”
Per FX, “Founded in 1864, the ‘Red Dragons’ are one of the oldest football teams in the world and currently compete in the National League, the fifth tier of the English football league system.”
In 2020, “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” creator and star McElhenney and “Deadpool” star Reynolds “teamed up to purchase the team in the hopes of turning the club into an underdog story the whole world could root for,” the cable channel said. “The worry?...
Titled “Welcome to Wrexham,” the show will track “the dreams and people of Wrexham, a working-class town in North Wales, UK, as two Hollywood stars take ownership of the town’s historic yet struggling football club.”
Per FX, “Founded in 1864, the ‘Red Dragons’ are one of the oldest football teams in the world and currently compete in the National League, the fifth tier of the English football league system.”
In 2020, “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” creator and star McElhenney and “Deadpool” star Reynolds “teamed up to purchase the team in the hopes of turning the club into an underdog story the whole world could root for,” the cable channel said. “The worry?...
- 5/18/2021
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
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