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, BuzzFeeds 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 wont follow Netflixs 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 Medias 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 its also pitching cable networks on a nightly news show.