Fox hopes that making the first seven episodes of the mockumentary sitcom from Jenny Bicks and Paul Feig available on Hulu and other platforms will give it an Office-like boost. So Fox won't pay attention to Nielsen ratings over the next seven weeks. “Rarely does anything ‘open’ anymore, and comedies take longer to find an audience — docu-style comedies specifically,” Fox Entertainment president Michael Thorn tells Variety of the network's first attempt at a binge-first strategy. “We’ve been talking about trying to find the most specific types of voices that will hopefully capture a real fan base and grow from there, as opposed to trying to appeal to everyone at the same time, which doesn’t feel possible or likely anymore.”
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