YouTube is expected to announce new projects at the Brandcast online presentation for marketers on Thursday. YouTube Originals has shifted to unscripted projects - with everything available to watch on the free, ad-supported side of the service - centered on personalities, learning content, music and special coronavirus-related programming.
ESCAPE THE NIGHT SERIES
Other scripted series that YouTube has been unable to find new homes for have shut down.
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That came after Starz stepped in to acquire the series version of “Step Up,” based on Lionsgate’s film franchise of the same name. Earlier this week, it was announced that Netflix would pick up YouTube Originals’ hit show “Cobra Kai” for Season 3. Word of YouTube’s cancellation of “Escape the Night” comes as the video giant has wound down virtually its entire scripted slate. While YouTube has opted to not renew Graceffa’s “Escape the Night,” the platform’s originals team is exploring working with the YouTuber on a different project, a source familiar with the discussions said. Graceffa is producing the interactive offshoot of “Escape the Night” in collaboration with Studio71, the digital network he signed with last year. Something is coming….? #EscapeTheNight Sign up for the official invitation coming soon: /D6FglF5Rt9 Choose your fellow players carefully if you want to escape the night!” “It will require all your skill and strategy to make it out alive before sunrise. To a house… a house of EVIL!” says an email from Graceffa to fans who signed up for the new project. “You are invited to take a journey back in time to 1920.
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So far, the “Escape the Night” group on Discord has more than 22,000 members.
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Those who enrolled were then directed to a group on game-chat service Discord. Graceffa pointed fans to a signup page on the Backerkit website for the project. “I get so many comments of, like, ‘You should do a fan season of “Escape the Night”‘ and, like, ‘It would be so fun to be able to play “Escape the Night,”‘” he said. In lieu of a new season, Graceffa teased a new interactive fan version of “Escape the Night” that he said he has been working on for the past year.