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Netflix is once again looking to YouTube to expand its programming slate.
I picked up the streamer Hot: excessive heatan extension of the popular YouTube talk show in which host Sean Evans asks a famous guest a series of deeply researched questions while they both eat increasingly spicy chicken wings. Extra heat It will be a series of specials streamed from Netflix’s live event locations. The first episode will air after the Home Run Derby baseball game on July 13.
The first guests are on Hot: excessive heat It will be Will Ferrell, Fortune Feimster, and Jimmy Tatro – who will star in the upcoming Netflix comedy series Falcon.
“As a student of the late-night genre, I am obsessed with the art of the interview and believe these conversations deserve a level of volume and spectacle that sometimes cannot be contained by a studio,” Evans said in a statement. “It’s exciting to partner with Netflix to continue to break new ground with this format, while maintaining the essence of what fans love Hot Strongly intact.”
Main Hot The show, which has produced more than 400 episodes since it premiered in 2015, will remain on YouTube. So will the spin-offs hot vs and Hot Ones Wing Pong. All shows in the franchise are produced by First We Feast.
“First We Feast has a decade-plus track record of delivering new interview formats and great celebrity moments,” said Chris Schoenberger, co-founder of Hot Ones and CEO of First We Feast. “It’s exciting to continue to push the boundaries with Netflix and bring the power Hot To some of the service’s biggest and most culturally impactful moments.
Evans, Chris Schoenberger, Sarah Honda, Aaron Cook and showrunner KP Anderson will executive produce Hot: excessive heat.
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