Entertainment
Why King Bach Is Turning His Content Into a Sketch Show
Hey Creatorverse readers,
It seems like every day a new creator has a new deal with a different streamer. The latest is King Bach (28.4 million TikTok followers), who has signed a deal with Creator TV to create an original, poker-focused series and turn his library content into a sketch show, I reported exclusively.
“Straight King High Flush” is currently in development, and the comedy-focused “The King Bach Show” will reformat Bach’s library of videos to make a sketch series. These will be available to watch on Creator TV’s free ad-supported TV (FAST) partners, which include Plex, Sling Freestream and LiveTVx
“It doesn’t matter how many followers you have or how many views you have. There’s always somebody who hasn’t seen it,” Bach told me.
I’ve covered companies like Creator TV before. Essentially, these companies take existing creator content, pair thematically similar videos to create half-hour episodes and release these repackaged series on major streaming platforms such as Sling TV or Hulu. Creator TV handles everything to make sure these shows are ready to go for streamers, ensuring that episodes are the right length, the content fits in with general standards and practices guidelines and that the music rights have been cleared. Creators get a new revenue stream without having to shoot too much new content, and the streamers get new content that’s cheaper than originally produced programming. It’s a win-win.
“[Creators] can’t quite control the platforms or the algorithms,” Charlie Ibarra, co-founder and head of content at Sabio’s Creator TV, told me. “What we’re doing is we’re building a model that creates and offers a bit more consistency in how their content and how their stories are programmed and consumed, and this creates opportunities for them to build deeper and more durable audience relationships.”
A more reliable revenue model is especially important to creators like Bach. Not only is it incredibly labor and time intensive to make comedy, but Bach is also an actor who’s starred in Netflix’s “The Babysitter” and “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before.” This year, he’s set to star in Oran Zegman’s “Goodbye Girl,” Ilya Naishuller’s “Road House 2” and Tommy Wirkola’s “Violent Night 2.” Deals like these help give Bach a bit of financial and creative breathing room, allowing him to fully focus on whatever product he’s currently working on.
Companies like Creator TV are working smarter instead of harder to find a way to bring TV syndication into the modern age. No industry is better at profiting off of IP than Hollywood, and right now, experienced creators are seeking out new ways to profit off their library content. Check out my full interview with Bach and Ibarra to learn more about the strategy behind Creator TV.
Now onto the rest.
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What’s New
Beast Industries is being sued for alleged sexual harassment and gender-based discrimination
MrBeast’s company Beast Industries is the target of a lawsuit from a former employee. Former head of Instagram for the company Lorrayne Mavromatis filed a civil lawsuit last Tuesday against the company, accusing it of sexual harassment and gender-based discrimination, claiming that she was excluded from all-male meetings, harassed and passed over for work opportunities in favor of men. Mavromatis’ suit also alleges the company violated the federal Family and Medical Leave Act and that she was wrongfully terminated.
Representatives for Beast Industries have already denied Mavromatis’ allegations, telling Dexerto that this is a “clout-chasing complaint” and that it’s built on “deliberate misrepresentations and categorically false statements.” The company also said it has proof refuting Mavromatis’ claims.
iHeartMedia is considering a sale to SiriusXM
iHeartMedia may be sold to SiriusXM. Since iHeartMedia’s high in 2021, shares have fallen by more than 80%, so this could be the parachute the company needs. Talks are still in the preliminary stages, but if the deal were to happen, the combined company would have more than $12 billion in sales.
Speaking of SiriusXM, last week the company signed a deal to be the exclusive audio advertising representative for YouTube in the U.S. The company will handle advertising for YouTube content like podcasts, talk shows and music. Starting this fall, advertisers will be able to buy audio ad impressions against YouTube audiences through SiriusXM Media.
Sports entertainment platform DAZN will introduce a squad of 48 creators worldwide for FIFA World Cup 2026
For the first time in history, the FIFA World Cup will feature 48 nations, and sports entertainment platform DAZN is celebrating that scope in a big way. The company is partnering with 48 creators, one from each qualifying country. DAZN began its worldwide search for creators last Friday.
“By empowering creators to tell their stories, we’re delivering a richer and more personal way to experience the tournament that reflects how football is lived and felt by fans around the world,” Quim Domenech, executive vice president of global content and editorial at DAZN, said.
Platform Updates
Kevin Hart’s LOL Network and Mansa double down on verticals
LOL Network, the production company founded by Kevin Hart, will be releasing comedy verticals. Though microdramas are often known for having romantic storylines, Hartbeat President and Chief Distribution Officer Jeff Clanagan believes there’s an audience for shortform series beyond “genre monoculture.” If you need a refresher, verticals are shortform shows that live either on designated microdrama platforms like MyDrama or on shortform platforms like TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts.
Hart isn’t the only one expanding his vertical slate. Mansa, the first microdrama platform focused solely on Black stories, will release 10 original series this summer. The series will be produced through the company’s in-house studio, Mansa Studios, and Mansa plans to license and co-finance approximately 30% of the projects.
YouTube is the only platform that’s seen a notable increase in children’s viewing over the past five years
Over the past five years, YouTube is the only platform that’s seen a notable increase when it comes to children’s viewership. That’s what a new report from media cartographer Evan Shapiro and Common Sense Media found. Last year, viewership from children aged two to 11 years old accounted for 12.3% of YouTube viewing compared to the 9.1% the platform saw in 2022. The report also found that demand for children’s entertainment is up even though TV production for kids’ series has dropped 25% since 2019.
TikTok’s Add to Music App option has led to users saving over 6 billion songs
Over the past year, TikTok users have used the platform’s “Add to Music App” option to save more than 6 billion songs to the music platform of their choice. Currently, the offering works with Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon Music. But this is a remarkable stat as TikTok has become vital to modern music discovery and fan engagement.
Movers and Shakers
Keith Lee, Bob The Drag Queen, CelinaSpookyBoo and more are coming to Tubi
As previously mentioned, Tubi is increasing its creator slate yet again. On Tuesday, the streamer announced that it will be releasing exclusive digital-first creator series from 10 creators including:
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: No one is investing in creators like Tubi.
Podcaster Bobbi Althoff will be part of the cast of “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County”
Even if you don’t think you know Bobbi Althoff, you probably do. The TikTok star (8.3 million followers) and podcast host who went viral for her interviews with Drake, Lil Yachty and Offset has joined the cast of “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County.” No, Althoff is not Mormon; she is Christian. She will star alongside other creators like Aspyn Ovard (2.3 million Instagram followers), Avery Woods (2.6 million TikTok followers) and Salomé Andrea (1.6 million TikTok followers).
Curry Barker will direct “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” reimagining at A24
Curry Barker, known for being part of the comedy collective That’s a Bad Idea (1.3 million TikTok followers), will be directing a reimagining of “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” with A24. Little is known about what direction Barker plans to take, but this isn’t the first time the comedy creator has tried his hand at horror. He also directed, wrote and edited the supernatural movie “Obsession,” which is set to have a theatrical release on May 15.
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Who to Watch
Colin Stanley
Watching Colin Stanley’s littlevictorianboy account (432,000 TikTok followers) is a bit like watching Adult Swim at 2 in the morning. You have no idea what’s going to happen at any given moment, but you can’t look away. Stanley’s sketches often mirror TikTok’s feed itself, creating a stream of reaction videos to topics as bizarre as a man who wants to turn women into cubes or activating crab mode to scare away rival hikers. It’s pure madness but in the best possible way.
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In a year in which the Best International Feature category has become even more expansive, a new country is submitting their first film for consideration in the prestigious Oscar category.
IndieWire can exclusively reveal that Cyprus is submitting Myrsini Aristidou’s “Hold Onto Me,” an award winner at Sundance 2026, as the inaugural film to represent the small Mediterranean island in Best International Feature at the 99th Academy Awards.
Aristidou’s feature debut premiered in the World Cinema Dramatic competition at the Sundance Film Festival this year; it tells the story of a young girl named Iris who comes back into contact with her estranged father Aris shortly after running amok in her hometown, alongside her older friend Danae.
“From winning the World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award at Sundance to becoming Cyprus’s historic first official entry for the Academy Awards, this film has truly persevered against all odds,” said Aristidou via statement. “While the picture follows a young girl seeking out a father figure, its heartbeat is a universal reminder that in an increasingly fractured world, we ought to remember to hold onto each other.”
Prior to “Hold Onto Me,” Aristidou directed the short “Semele,” which won the Special Jury Prize at the 2016 Berlin International Film Festival, and “Aria,” which was made with the support of Oscar-winning filmmaker Spike Lee, and premiered at the 2017 Venice Film Festival. The Cypriot director is also an alum of programs like the Cannes Cinéfondation Residence and the TIFF Talent Lab, and won the Spiegel Lab’s Emerging Filmmaker Prize.
Aristidou added, “I am deeply grateful and honored to represent my country with such an intimate story, a debut feature that took many years to realize. We know we enter this race as an underdog, but we have made it this far because of the profound connection and warmth we’ve received from international audiences. We will keep aiming high, giving it all we’ve got, and trusting the film to continue finding its way into people’s hearts.”
Countries have until Wednesday, September 30, 2026 to make their submissions for Best International Feature. Preliminary voting for the 10 shortlisted Oscars categories will occur from December 7 through 11. The following week, on Tuesday, December 15, the Academy will announce its Oscars shortlists, and voters will later choose the five Best International Feature nominees from a list of the 15 submissions that received the most votes.
The 2027 Oscar nominations will be announced on Thursday, January 21, and the 99th Academy Awards will occur on Sunday, March 14, 2027.
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We have the first official trailer for Elsinore, starring Andrew Scott.
Simon Stone (The Dig) directs Elsinore, based on the life of Ian Charleson, written by Stephen Beresford (Pride). The official synopsis reads: Elsinore is a powerful, deeply moving, and inspiring true story of the actor Ian Charleson, who faced incredible odds while preparing to give the performance of his life in Hamlet at the National Theatre in London.
Scott stars as Charleson. He leads the film alongside Olivia Colman. Scott is also a producer on the film. The wider cast features Billie Piper, Johnny Flynn, Luke Thompson, David Dawson, Monica Dolan, Matthew Beard, Joe Locke, Georgie Glen, Sadie Soverall, Adeel Akhtar, Dickie Beau, with Juliet Stevenson and Peter Mullan.
Andrea Occhipintio of Lucky Red (Il Divo) produced the film with Gabrielle Tana of Magnolia Mae Films (The Dig), along with Pete Shilaimon and Mickey Liddell of LD Entertainment (Jackie), and Stefano Massenzi and Carolyn Marks Blackwood.
This film has received enthusiastic reviews following debut screenings at the fall festivals. Deadline’s Pete Hammond described Scott’s performance as “heartbreakingly great” and a “performance for the ages.”
Elsinore will next screen at the London Film Festival. StudioCanal will release the film in UK cinemas on January 29, 2027. Focus has the U.S. rights and will open the film on November 20.
“The movie is also a love letter to Britain’s National Theatre, a sprawling monument to the power of art and artists, an “Elsinore” unto itself,” Hammond wrote.
Check out the trailer above.
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EXCLUSIVE: James Jordan, who stars alongside Billy Bob Thornton on Paramount+’s Landman, has been tapped for a role in They Follow, David Robert Mitchell’s long-anticipated Neon sequel to his critically acclaimed 2015 horror film It Follows, sources tell Deadline.
Reps for Neon declined to comment. Character details are being kept under wraps, as is the plot of the sequel. All that’s known thus far is that it takes place a decade after the events of the original film.
Maika Monroe has returned to star alongside newcomer Naomi Ackie. The cast also includes Jackie Earle Haley, Justine Lupe, Anna Mirodin, Jayne Taini, Michael Gandolfini, Tom Pecinka, Melora Walters, Ben Krieger, Natalie Shinnick and Jan Hoag.
Mitchell has once again directed from his own script. He’s also producing alongside Harvest Hill Entertainment’s Jake Weiner, Chris Bender of Good Fear Content, Northern Light Media Ventures’ Erik Rommesmo, FirstGen Content’s Mike D’Alto and Randal Sandler, Curious Gremlin’s Scott Aharoni and Sinan Eczacıbaşı, Kaplan Morrison’s David Kaplan, Rebecca Green and Laura Smith. Mark Bennett handled casting.
Neon reps worldwide rights to They Follow and will release the film in U.S. theaters. Neon International is handling foreign sales. Deals were negotiated on behalf of the filmmakers by Hayden Goldblatt of Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz, Eugene Pikulin of Bruns Brennan Berry Pikulin Jacobs, Michael Weiss of Concentric Law, and Wifreddy Chiang of Baseline Media.
It Follows was snapped up by Radius-TWC after premiering to rave reviews at Cannes in 2014. The psychological horror film stars Monroe as Jay Height, a college student who, after a sexual encounter, becomes the target of an unstoppable supernatural entity. As the entity takes the form of random people, slowly but relentlessly stalking her and her friends through the Detroit area, she grapples with the fact that she will only be able to escape the curse she has inherited by passing it on to someone else through sex.
Regarded as one of the best horror films of the 2010s, It Follows grossed around $23M against a reported budget of a little more than a million, launching Monroe toward stardom and making a studio director of Mitchell. Pic’s cast also included Keir Gilchrist, Daniel Zovatto, Jake Weary, Olivia Luccardi and Lili Sepe.
Best known for his turn as petroleum engineer Dale Bradley, right-hand man to Thornton’s Tommy Norris, on Paramount+’s hit drama Landman heading into its third season, Jordan is a clear favorite of co-creator Taylor Sheridan, who’s cast him in everything from Yellowstone and 1883 to Mayor of Kingstown, Those Who Wish Me Dead and Wind River. Currently, Jordan also stars in his series Lioness. Upcoming, he’ll be seen in Billings, an indie healthcare drama marking the directorial debut of actor Alexander Ludwig. He is repped by Elevate Entertainment and Jamie Freed Management.
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