Netflix has given a popular YouTube star the green light to bring her scripted series to its platform.
Titled Haters Back Off, the show will be the first scripted series to debut on Netflix that is created by a YouTube personality. The eight-episode series will feature the YouTube persona Miranda Sings played by creator Colleen Ballinger-Evans.
Sings can best be described as an overconfident singer who wears way too much lipstick and is outspoken about just about every aspect of life. The persona is known for covering popular songs poorly alongside famous guests (her inspirations are Britney Spears, the Spice Girls and Josh Groban), and is made to be a parody of self-centered artists who have little talent and large egos.
Ballinger-Evans' Miranda Sings YouTube channel has more than 5.7 million subscribers, with her videos gaining more than 800 million video views.
Haters Back Off is reported to follow the "the oddball family life of Miranda Sings, an incredibly confident, totally untalented star on the rise who continues to fail upward by the power of her belief that she was born famous — it's just no one knows it yet."
Ballinger-Evans announced the Netflix news in a new video as Sings, where she describes the show as her baby and compares the developmental process thus far to pregnancy.
The series was created by Ballinger-Evans alongside executive producers Chris Ballinger, Perry Rein and Gigi McCreery. Rein and McCreery, the writing and producing team known for Friends and Wizards of Waverly Place, will also serve as co-showrunners. Jeff Kwatinetz and Josh Barry will also be on board as executive producers.
It is still unknown when the series will premiere.
Source: Variety
