Quibi adds original doc, gameshow

Forthcoming shortform video platform Quibi has ordered a documentary series from two Oscar-winning filmmakers plus a Japanese gameshow.

Each episode of How We Met features a couple sharing their remarkable origin story and how those events have profoundly shaped their relationship and their lives.

It comes from Oscar-winning filmmakers Dan Lindsay and TJ Martin, whose debut film, Undefeated, won the Academy Award for best documentary feature in 2012. The filmmakers are currently in post-production on a feature-length documentary on the life and career of singer Tina Turner.

How We Met will be produced by LoveChild along with All3Media America and will be executive produced by Lindsay and Martin plus Diane McArter and David Thorne of LoveChild and Tim Pastore of All3Media America. Lindsay, Martin and All3Media America are represented by CAA.

Let’s Go Atsuko, meanwhile, is produced by National Lampoon and PalmStar Media and is described as a “woke” Japanese gameshow.

It sees gamesmaster and comedian Atsuko Okatsuka lead two civilian contestants through the surreal universe inside her grandma’s fridge.

In each episode, each contestant, perhaps unwisely, tells Atsuko one thing they love and one thing they fear. These facts can and will be used against them to create tailor-made challenges that test the players’ “street smarts.”

The executive producers are Okatsuka, Ryan Harper Gray and Evan Shapiro. Producers are Tatiana Kelly, Ben Kabialis and Samee Junio. Forever Dog, an exclusive partnership with National Lampoon, is also on board.

Okatsuka is represented by Velocity Entertainment Partners and attorney Cindy Farrelly Gesner.

Quibi, led by former Walt Disney Studios chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman, launches on April 6.

The mobile-only service will go live in the US at US$4.99 per month for the ad-supported version and US$7.99 per month for the ad-free edition. It will host content designed to be viewed on the go, with episodes less than 10 minutes long.