Overview
- The Stepback with Blake Griffin is scheduled to premiere on Tuesday, Oct. 20, with new episodes released every Tuesday on Prime Video and YouTube; the date was announced by Amazon and reported across outlets.
- All episodes filmed before a live studio audience began taping in June and are now in post-production, according to the producers and multiple reports.
- Griffin will host from behind a desk and generally forego guests in favor of topical monologues that examine sports issues such as gambling, NIL, taxpayer-funded stadiums, pot use, analytics, and sports journalism.
- The series is co-produced by Amazon’s Wondery and Griffin’s Mortal Media, the production company he runs with former NFL lineman Ryan Kalil, and it expands Griffin’s role beyond his NBA on Prime analyst work.
- Amazon is positioning the show inside a broader Creator Services strategy that targets streaming and online audiences, a move that tests a late-night sports-comedy format that has had mixed success in past TV efforts.