Fox plays 'Tournament'
Schlamme to develop U.S. version of Canadian skein
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Laffer will follow a youth baseball team through the course of a single season. Original CBC skein, which aired last spring on U.S. cabler Versus (nee OLN), used a mockumentary style to chronicle the adventures of an athletically challenged youth hockey team and its underdog bid to qualify for the championship tournament.
Howard Busgang, Howard Nemetz and Marty Putz -- three of the people behind the original "Tournament" -- will write and exec produce the Fox version. Schlamme will exec produce via his Warner Bros. TV-based Shoe Money Prods.
CBC has produced two seasons of "The Tournament." Fox has given a script commitment to the project.
