INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Netflix and BuzzFeed News are teaming up for a 20-episode documentary series called Follow This.According to Variety, the show will be less
focused on breaking news and more on taking us behind the scenes to show how BuzzFeed News reporters put together specific stories
For example, in the clip below, BuzzFeed’s Scaachi Koul talks about her reporting around ASMR.Follow This will be produced by BuzzFeed
News, with Jessica Harrop serving as showrunner and one of its executive producers
When it premieres on July 9, it won’t follow Netflix’s standard release strategy
Instead, a new 15-minute episode will come out every week.Netflix executives have been emphatic about wanting to stay out of the live news
business, but the streaming service has introduced more news- and reality-based programming over the past few years, including documentaries
(like an upcoming film from Vice Media’s Motherboard) and talkshows.BuzzFeed, meanwhile, has been creating video series for a variety of
channels, including its AM to DM series for Twitter
The company told Variety it’s also pitching cable networks on a nightly news show.
