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October 30, 2020 12:26 am
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Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/29/21540895/quibi-shutdown-lil-yachty-series-selling-content-hbo-max
Lil Yachtys Quibi show is the first to find a life raft
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Remember Quibi, short-lived media company and purveyor of bizarre shows like Murder House Flip and a horror anthology featuring a golden arm? It’s only been a little over a week since the mobile-first, shortform streamer announced it was shuttering, but already the first of its unreleased shows has found a new home: Lil Yachty’s dramedy, Public Figures, is headed to HBO Max. It seems pieces of Quibi might live on — whether you watched it or not.
Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman’s efforts to sell Quibi outright to big companies like Apple and WarnerMedia was one of the first indications that things were about to go bottoms up at the young company. The attempts that followed to sell off Quibi’s unreleased content all but confirmed the...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/29/21540895/quibi-shutdown-lil-yachty-series-selling-content-hbo-max
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