Showing 16 - 30 of 307 articles tagged "Quibi"

• Posted Friday 1/08/21 at 6:12AM EST

  Roku officially acquires Quibi's shows, will stream them for free on Roku Channel with ads

  As part of the deal, the licenses to Quibi shows will transfer to The Roku Channel, Roku's app, in the...

• Posted Monday 1/04/21 at 10:16AM EST

  Quibi is in talks to sell its content catalog to Roku

  The rights to the failed streaming service's shows could be acquired by Roku, reports The Wall Street Journal.

• Posted Wednesday 12/02/20 at 7:32PM EST

  Niecy Nash: Reno 911!'s unaired new season will find a new home despite Quibi's shutdown

  "We finished our last season recently, we just wrapped that up," Nash tells PopCulture.

• Posted Wednesday 12/02/20 at 7:32PM EST

  Presenting a list of short-lived networks and streaming services that "pulled a Quibi"

  Pivot TV, Seeso, Al Jazeera America and Esquire Network are among the streamers and cable networks that didn't last long.

• Posted Wednesday 12/02/20 at 2:33AM EST

  Paula Pell thanks Quibi: "You allowed us to make our batsh*t and beloved show Mapleworth Murders"

  "You couldn’t have been better to work with and we will thank you forever!" tweeted the SNL veteran as the...

• Posted Tuesday 12/01/20 at 1:21PM EST

  Quibi officially shuts down

  As promised, the shortform streaming service's app became no longer operable today less than eight months after its launch in...

• Posted Monday 11/30/20 at 9:35PM EST

  Quibi, which is about the shut down, trends on Twitter over a fake Jack Sparrow House reality show

  The shortform streaming service had said it planned to shutter "around" Dec.

• Posted Thursday 11/26/20 at 5:42AM EST

  Why Quibi failed

  Company Man, a YouTube channel devoted to explaining how companies rise and fall, tries to get to the bottom of...

• Posted Tuesday 11/03/20 at 3:58AM EST

  What happens to the people working on Quibi shows?

  Last Friday was the final day of work for Quibi employees, who will receive four months of severance, according to...

• Posted Monday 11/02/20 at 5:44PM EST

  Quibi considered pivoting to a "freemium" version and going with the name "Ijji"

  The Wall Street Journal's Ben Mullin dives into what went wrong at the shortform streaming service, and learns that founder...

• Posted Thursday 10/29/20 at 4:09PM EDT

  Lil Yachty’s Quibi dramedy Public Figures is headed to HBO Max

  In the wake of Quibi shutting down, Public Figures is moving to HBO Max for development.

• Posted Thursday 10/29/20 at 1:43PM EDT

  Peacock nears 22 million sign-ups: NBC Universal CEO calls it the "opposite of Quibi"

  NBC Universal CEO Jeff Shell cited a "deep library of familiar stuff," including Dick Wolf shows, with Peacock being "way ahead”...

• Posted Monday 10/26/20 at 7:04PM EDT

  What it's like to be a Quibi reject

  "I worried that my career would be over if people heard I couldn't even sell a show to Quibi," former...

• Posted Saturday 10/24/20 at 3:45AM EDT

  A "sincere Quibi fan" reacts to the shortform streaming service's demise

  Houston-based IT consultant Christopher Byrd was a "Day One" subscriber to Quibi, which he watched as much as YouTube during...

• Posted Friday 10/23/20 at 5:47AM EDT

  Quibi may have overvalued the star power of celebrities

  Seemingly every big-name celebrity was attached to a Quibi show, from Dwayne Johnson to Steven Spielberg to Liam Hemsworth to...