Kevin Hart is giving the "fake" high school football team that scammed ESPN the docudrama treatment

Deadline

Five days after the apparently fake Bishop Sycamore High School football team in Ohio became the year's wildest sports story amid a 58-0 blowout on the national showcase of ESPN, Hart has announced plans to produce a definitive docuseries on the still-developing story. “As soon as I started following this story, I was immediately drawn to it and knew it was something that myself and my team at HartBeat had to dive into. HBP thrives in the doc-series space,” Hart said. “We understand how to break down stories and capture the most interesting and honest moments in a narrative. We know this con comes with a robust backstory and cannot wait to share it with the world.” As Deadline notes, "on the heels of tricking ESPN into airing one of its games, the alleged 'fake' high school from Columbus, Ohio, quickly rose to global attention after becoming embroiled in a litany of controversies including age concerns, arrest records, questions around the origins of the school itself and other dark secrets. The Bishop Sycamore High School team took a 58-0 whipping at the hands of the elite IMG Academy, a place where many NFL careers are born, whose organizers were told by Bishop Sycamore that they were in for a competitive contest. The game was televised Sunday on ESPN, and fast became such a one-sided affair that the broadcast team spent less time on play by play and more on expressing wonder in why Bishop Sycamore was on the same field as IMG, why the broadcasters themselves were there describing the slaughter, and expressing real concern that the Bishop Sycamore players would get hurt in the rout."