Description
Grand Slammers sees a group of sporting heroes (the England Rugby World Cup Winners) enter HMP The Mount prison – home to one of the only remaining rugby pitches inside an adult male English prison – to attempt to build and train a team of inmates strong enough to compete against a formidable rival, the Australians.
The series will offer a vivid insight into the power of sport to change lives as the sporting legends open up to inmates about how rugby had a profound impact on them during formative periods and gave them a purpose in life.
The legends experience clashes, confrontations as well as offering encouragement about how the sport could make a difference for each inmate, as they show their charges the spirit of rugby and its broad appeal with all the camaraderie, intensity, emotion, buzz and laughter that comes with being part of a team focused on a common goal, beating the Aussies…