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Kids and Sports - it's an unbeatable combination, as American as apple pie. Virtually every Major League Baseball team has a spin-off TV show that offers instruction and advice to children from players and coaches. And the New Jersey Bombers are no exception: their instructional show "Curveballs" is great family viewing, great P.R. (humanizes the players) and great for ratings. But behind the scenes, it's not all home runs and lollipops. Trying to draw all the elements of a children's sports show - the obnoxious out-of-control kids, the cute but clueless host, the oversexed narcissistic ballplayers, the bored and mutinous crew - into a coherent whole is a job for a superwoman. CHRISTINA LAWRENCE (Jennifer Jiles), the producer of "Curveballs", tries her best. She deals with all of the above, plus tight budgets, dopey scripts, impossible deadlines, meddling executives, hostile coaches, overbearing parents, etc., while trying desperately to hold onto her sanity. Right now she's losing. Beyond the craziness, Christina finds herself at the cultural flashpoint where old-school traditional sports is colliding headlong with the modern enlightened #MeToo sensibility. The entrenched ethos of male dominance, power games, and cheerful fanny-slapping is on the way out, but nobody's told the boys in the locker room and the front office. Christina finds herself trying to single-handedly drag the sexist sports culture into the bright light of the 21st century, but it's a struggle every step of the way. Christina's immediate boss, MICK BOSWELL (Adam Ferrara), the network executive of the sports network, should be her biggest ally but is often the biggest pain in the butt. Mick is a former minor-league baseball player, and he and Christina have a "30-Rock" Jack-and-Liz type relationship - he creates problems, she tries to solve them, and then he takes the credit. The host of the show, DASHA PLUMB (Nadia Gan), is very pretty and always on the lookout for a new gig. Her knowledge of sports is zero, but she looks great in a skin-tight uniform, and the dad viewers love her. So do the BALLPLAYERS who appear on the show. When they're not showing off their baseball moves, they're putting the moves on Dasha. Christina spends half her time trying to break up romances, and the other half wrangling kids and dealing with front-office jerks and know-it-alls. The biggest know-it-all of all is the owner of the network, ALTON GARVEY, a brash, blustering Trump-like billionaire who runs roughshod over his executive board and is always looking for ways to expand his power. All these characters whirl through Christina's topsy-turvy universe, as she tries to impose modern values on an out-dated system that seems to work fine just the way it is. Created by Frederick Stroppel and Jennifer Jiles -who knows the territory well, having been herself the Emmy-winning host of "DYNAMETS!", a kids show produced for the New York Mets - "CURVEBALLS" is a half-hour single cam original series that provides a genuine inside look into the wild, raunchy world behind the wholesome façade of a kids sports show.

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