{"id":6133,"date":"2015-01-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/2015\/01\/22\/new-hulu-original-from-youtubea%c2%80%c2%99s-freddie-wong-rocketjump-lionsgate\/"},"modified":"2015-01-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T00:00:00","slug":"new-hulu-original-from-youtubea%c2%80%c2%99s-freddie-wong-rocketjump-lionsgate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/new-hulu-original-from-youtubea%c2%80%c2%99s-freddie-wong-rocketjump-lionsgate\/","title":{"rendered":"New Hulu Original from YouTube\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Freddie Wong, RocketJump &amp; Lionsgate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tLOS ANGELES: The latest original series to join Hulu&rsquo;s roster is a half-hour comedy from Freddie Wong and RocketJump, the team behind the YouTube series <em>Video Game High School<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe project is being produced in partnership with Lionsgate Television. It&rsquo;s the third original series that Hulu has ordered from the studio, following&nbsp;<em>Deadbeat <\/em>and <em>Casual<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe show also marks RocketJump&rsquo;s first long-form series and the first to premiere exclusively off the YouTube network. RocketJump has around 7 million subscribers and has generated nearly 1 billion streams on YouTube. Wong and RocketJump are best known for the breakout action-comedy YouTube series <em>Video Game High<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tNew episodes of the upcoming comedy will be released weekly; each will chronicle the filmmaking behind RocketJump&rsquo;s newest short. The eight episodes will be released exclusively on Hulu, along with the newly created shorts.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;We are so excited to bring RocketJump and their incredible fan following to Hulu,&rdquo; said Beatrice Springborn, Hulu&rsquo;s head of originals. &ldquo;With so many great content creators in the media landscape today and so many new platforms to find them on&mdash;from film to television to YouTube&mdash;Freddie Wong and the RocketJump team undoubtedly bring their own brand of creativity and a new wave of talent to Hulu.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES: The latest original series to join Hulu&rsquo;s roster is a half-hour comedy from Freddie Wong and RocketJump, the team behind the YouTube series Video Game High School. The project is being produced in partnership with Lionsgate Television. It&rsquo;s the third original series that Hulu has ordered from the studio, following&nbsp;Deadbeat and Casual. 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