# Ted McGinley Tapped to Narrate Volleyball Documentary ‘Kings of the Beach’

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/ted-mcginley-tapped-to-narrate-volleyball-documentary-kings-of-the-beach/
- Published: 2026-10-23T16:30:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-23T17:40:54+00:00
- Original publisher: The Hollywood Reporter
- Original article: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/beach-volleyball-documentary-kings-of-the-beach-ted-mcginley-1236738619/
- Topics: Film

## Key points

- Ted McGinley narrates a documentary on beach volleyball’s rise and decline.
- The film follows the sport from the 1980s through the next decade.
- Players’ ambitions and disputes over governance feature in the story.

## Summary

Ted McGinley will narrate *Kings of the Beach*, a documentary tracing beach volleyball’s rise and decline. His ties to Newport Beach and the sport’s heyday make him a fitting guide to a story about how the game became popular and why it later struggled.

The film spans the early 1980s through the following decade, drawing on archival footage, photographs and accounts from players including Sinjin Smith, Karch Kiraly, Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh Jennings. It explores the sport’s growth under sponsorship deals and later conflicts over egos, ambition and control of its governing body, the Association of Volleyball Professionals. The documentary is due to debut for rental or purchase on 3 November across several video platforms.

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