Before the first pitch is ever thrown, there is a vision. Building the Coconuts is an unscripted documentary series that follows the founding of the Bohol Coconuts Baseball and Softball Club from the very beginning, capturing the planning, the people, the setbacks, and the breakthroughs that define what it means to build something from nothing.
What Is Building the Coconuts?
Building the Coconuts is a character-driven docuseries set on the island of Bohol in the Philippines. The show documents the founding of a baseball and softball club at every stage of its development, from the earliest conversations about vision and purpose to the brick-and-mortar reality of constructing a dedicated sports facility on a tropical island where baseball is anything but ordinary.
This is not a sports highlight reel. It is a story about people, community, ambition, and the complicated, rewarding work of turning an idea into something real. Viewers will spend time with the founders, the sports and media team, local stakeholders, and the broader Bohol community as they all navigate what it truly takes to launch an organization from scratch in one of the most beautiful, and most logistically challenging, settings imaginable.
The series is produced by the Bohol Coconuts organization and will be released ahead of the club’s formal launch in the summer of 2025. Each episode is designed to stand alone while building a cumulative portrait of an organization in the making.
Why Bohol?
Bohol is known throughout the Philippines for its dramatic landscapes, its warm communities, and a pace of life that still leaves room for something new. It is not a place typically associated with baseball. That is precisely the point.
The founders of the Bohol Coconuts chose this island not in spite of its challenges but because of the opportunity those challenges represent. Building a baseball and softball club here means building infrastructure, awareness, and enthusiasm simultaneously. It means earning trust from a community that will be learning the sport alongside an organization that is still learning how to be one.
Bohol also carries a quality that is genuinely difficult to manufacture: a sense of place. The island has character, history, and people whose investment in their home runs deep. Building the Coconuts treats Bohol not as a backdrop but as an active part of the story, a setting that shapes every decision the organization makes.
The island of Bohol, home of the Bohol Coconuts Baseball and Softball Club.
What Viewers Will See
Building the Coconuts does not follow a script. What viewers will find is honest, unfiltered documentary storytelling that embraces the uncertainty of the founding process. Some episodes will move quickly, full of momentum and forward progress. Others will sit with difficulty, with decisions that have no clean answers, and with the reality that building something meaningful is rarely tidy.
Viewers can expect access to conversations that most organizations never share publicly: discussions about funding, facility design, community outreach, staffing, and the personal motivations that drive people to invest years of their lives in a sports club on a Philippine island. They can also expect Bohol itself to be a consistent presence, its landscape, its people, and its spirit woven throughout every episode.
The tone is candid. The pacing is deliberate. And the central question running through every episode is one that anyone who has ever tried to build something from nothing will recognize immediately: is this actually going to work?
Production Timeline and Episode Themes
The series is currently in pre-production. Filming will take place across multiple phases as the Bohol Coconuts organization develops. The following themes reflect the planned arc of the series, subject to change as the real story unfolds.
The Vision
Who had the idea, why Bohol, and what the founders actually believe they are building.
The Island
An introduction to Bohol and the community the club hopes to become a part of.
Breaking Ground
The early stages of facility planning and the realities of building on an island.
The Team Behind the Team
Meet the people working behind the scenes to make the Coconuts a reality.
Community First
How the club is working to earn its place in the Bohol community before a single game is played.
Almost Ready
The final push before launch, and everything that still has to go right.
Behind-the-Scenes Philosophy
The production philosophy behind Building the Coconuts comes down to one commitment: show what is real. There is no interest in manufacturing drama or presenting a version of events designed to make the founders look heroic. The Bohol Coconuts believe that the honest story of building something is more compelling than any polished version of it could be.
If something goes sideways, the cameras stay on. If someone changes their mind, we follow that change. The only story worth telling is the one that actually happened.
Merv Moore, the club’s Sports and Media Director, is overseeing the series alongside the production team. The goal is to build a body of documentary work that serves as both a record of the organization’s founding and a genuinely watchable series that stands on its own terms for anyone interested in sports, the Philippines, community building, or what it looks like when people commit to something larger than themselves.
The production team is composed of people based in and connected to the Philippines, with a commitment to showcasing Filipino talent, perspective, and storytelling throughout the series.
When to Watch
Building the Coconuts is set to launch on June 23, 2026, in alignment with the Bohol Coconuts club’s operational debut. The following timeline reflects current planning.
| Early 2026 | Pre-production, story development, and early filming of founding conversations |
| Spring 2026 | Active production phase covering facility planning, community outreach, and team formation |
| June 23, 2026 | Series premiere coinciding with the Bohol Coconuts club’s operational launch |
| Summer 2026 | Remaining episodes released as the club’s inaugural season takes shape |
Updates on the release schedule will be posted at bohol-coconuts.com and across the club’s social media channels. Viewers can follow the Bohol Coconuts online to receive notifications when new episodes become available.