Luke Littler's 'nonchalance' speaks volumes in revealing darts documentary series
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Darts fans have been able to feast on a brand new documentary series that shines a fresh light on the sport. Filming for ‘Game of Throws’, a three-part series now available to watch on Sky, took place in the build-up to the 2023/24 World Championship. Numerous top players, plus their families, feature, including Luke Humphries, Michael van Gerwen, Michael Smith, James Wade and a certain Luke Littler. Meanwhile, Sky Sports darts presenter Emma Paton is on hand to guide casual fans through the sport's quirks.
In terms of timing, it could not have panned out any better for the show’s makers, Dorothy St Pictures, who have produced various non-sporting documentaries for Netflix, Prime Video and Disney Plus. The first episode starts with Littler, then 16, and his dad digging out junior medals from under his bed a few weeks before the Worlds. The rest, as they say, is history.
“Every journalist and every documentary maker wants to be there first,” says Melanie Archer, the show’s executive producer and VP of documentaries and non-scripted series at Dorothy St Pictures. “And we were thanks to the team at Dorothy St and also the PDC. We filmed with Luke Littler three weeks before the World Championship when no one outside the world of darts knew who he was.
“It opens in his bedroom, a typical teenager’s bedroom, with his father pulling medals out from under the bed in a way every parent would do for their children. “The pride of his dad juxtaposed with Luke’s nonchalance - ‘Yeah, I’ll do my best and see what happens’ - is just perfect. You see the fearlessness of a teenager who thinks it would be awesome if he won just one game.”.
