Fallen Media Won't Stop Making Short Form Shows
No matter what Kareem says...
NYC is thawing out and Q2 releases are coming in. Here’s a new segment we are trying out + The Comment Section!
Do You Even Care is getting people sweaty. Hosted by Esteban Gast and produced by Adam McKay’s climate media company Yellow Dot Studios, the LA-filmed show brings Hollywood and internet personalities into a sauna to ask them what they actually care about. Past guests include Colin Rosenblum, Reggie Watts, Adam Conover, and The Try Guys.
Match My Angel is the Revival of The Fittest spinoff I didn’t know I needed. Host Erma Camporese brings a new guest each episode to see if they’re a romantic match for cult leader William Banks. Campy, raw, and somehow free.
Junk Justice is community service as entertainment. Produced by Meag Cherry and hosted by Erik Martini, guests confess to something weighing on their conscience and are assigned a trash pickup quota as punishment. Flat Iron has reportedly seen a 75% decrease in litter since episode one aired.
Meag Cherry also launched Picture This this week. A photographer trades headshots for early career artists’ stories. Friend of the newsletter Hope Glassel is featured in the first episode.
Humbled is Reddit's r/dating_advice as a show. Bowlmates host and standup comedian Daniela Mora shares cringe-worthy dating stories in her new independent IG/YouTube show.
Borrow A Boyfriend is Fallen Media's latest hit and it's exactly what it sounds like. Hosted by comedian Megan Bitchell, suitors borrow a boyfriend to complete any task they'd like, then decide if he's actually boyfriend material. The pilot dropped four weeks ago and is already popping.
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Romantical‘s Jonah Finegold directed a film. Busboys, starring Theo Vonn, is coming to theaters April 17. Trailer here.
Very Online Agency’s new show made me buy a new suitcase. Travel Companions, produced for Samsonite, has a host rifling through guests’ luggage to determine if they’re compatible travel partners.
Kareem Rahma wants new social show producers to try harder. The Subway Takes host took to Substack to beg people not to launch a new short-form unscripted vertical video show. Pandora’s box has long been open, my friend.
Tubi inked a creator development deal with TikTok. The Fox-owned streamer will partner with TikTok to identify a cohort of creators and give them a pathway to develop longer-form series. 100 million monthly active users and counting.
Adam Faze is looking for a colorist for one of Gymnasium’s properties. DM their account if that’s you.
Disney+ is going vertical. Starting this week, the streamer is rolling out “Verts,” a swipeable short-form feed pulling clips from its movies and shows. Users can add titles to their Watchlist or jump straight into playback.
Street Hearts took the Actor Awards red carpet and turned it into a dating advice pit stop. Attendees were asked to draw a heart from a bowl and answer the dating prompt.
–Rommel
As we mentioned in our first issue, we work on an app for showrunners called Typo*. If you’re tired of duct-taping together iMessage, Slack, Frame, Dropbox and Asana to run your show, we’d love for you to be a design partner. Reach out to Sahil at sahil@typo.inc.
*design partner (n.) — a person or team who gets early access to a product and gives their unfiltered thoughts on it.
* typo (n.) — a messenger that runs your show for you. It knows what’s due, who’s late, where the files are, and what the notes were.