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Exclusive: 20th Television has closed a first-look deal with Peyton Manning’s Omaha Productions to develop and executive produce scripted comedy, drama, adult animation and limited series for linear networks and streamers with an emphasis on content for Disney Entertainment Television platforms.

Omaha already is doing that with Chad Powers, the upcoming 20th TV comedy series starring Glen Powell for Hulu, which the company is producing. The first-look pact with 20th TV, part of Disney TV Studios, expands on that collaboration as well as Manning’s larger relationship with The Disney Company. Omaha has a first-look deal with ESPN for sports-related content. Chad Powers originated as a sketch produced by NFL Films and Omaha that ran on ESPN+ as part of the Eli’s Places series.

“Working with the incredible team at Omaha Productions while developing and filming Chad Powers has been pure joy,” said Karey Burke, President of 20th Television.

Season 15 of HBO’s “Hard Knocks” didn’t require directors Tim Rumpff and Shannon Furman to completely rewrite the book on how to film the acclaimed NFL training camp docuseries, but Covid-19 did require them to rewrite several chapters. “We knew things would be different since we were covering two teams instead of one,” Furman, who oversaw filming at the Los Angeles Chargers training camp in Costa Mesa while Rumpff led filming of the L.A. Rams training camp in Thousand Oaks, told TheWrap. “Then Covid-19 came and we had to change even further. We were under the same NFL safety protocols as the players and coaches and we had to make changes to where we positioned our cameras to keep our distance. We ended up relying a lot on Zoom meetings and cameras we had set up in the offices.” But beyond just the logistics of filming during the pandemic,...