A Whole New Ballgame

22min

Comedy

Milwaukee Brewers player Brett Sooner takes a job as a sportscaster at TV station WPLP after being sidelined due to the 1994–95 Major League Baseball (MLB) strike. Egotistical and immature, his playboy ways and reckless antics clash with the rest of the news room.

Episodes

Cast

Opening Day

1. Opening Day

22min

9th Jan 1995

Ratings soar when a TV station owner hires Brett Sooner, a striking ballplayer, as sportscaster over the protests of the fiery producer Meg O'Donnell.

They Say It's Yer Birthday

2. They Say It's Yer Birthday

22min

16th Jan 1995

Meg doesn't want it known that it's her birthday, but it becomes public knowledge after Brett broadcasts it to all of Milwaukee.

You are What You Date

3. You are What You Date

30min

23rd Jan 1995

Brett's Beef

4. Brett's Beef

30min

13th Feb 1995

A boxer goes on the air to counter Brett's demeaning jabs about female pugilists, and challenges him to mix it up in the ring.

Horace Morgan is Dead and Living in Milwaukee

5. Horace Morgan is Dead and Living in Milwaukee

30min

20th Feb 1995

Brett tries technical trickery to make it appear on TV that he's at a retirement celebration for a venerable stadium organist, when actually he's in a darts tournament.

With Brett You Get Eggroll

6. With Brett You Get Eggroll

30min

27th Feb 1995

After Meg devastates Glen by turning down his marriage proposal, Brett offers him the use of his Malibu beach house, then gives Meg a shoulder to cry on.

Twisted

7. Twisted

30min

13th Mar 1995

The Make Out Movie

8. The Make Out Movie

30min

The Jumper

9. The Jumper

30min

The Sexual Superheroine

10. The Sexual Superheroine

30min

Trouble Down Under

11. Trouble Down Under

30min

First air date

9th Jan 1995

Last air date

13th Mar 1995

Status

Canceled

Type

Scripted

Original language

en

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