EXCLUSIVE: Wow Presents Plus is pushing into the scripted game.
RuPaul's Drag Race producer World of Wonder has acquired queer Canadian comedy I Hate People, People Hate Me for its SVoD. The six-part dark comedy series created by and starring Canadian comic Bobbi Summers will premiere globally on Wow Presents Plus in 2025.
I Hate People, People Hate Me from LoCo Motion Pictures follows two friends - Jovi (Summers) and Tabitha (Lily Kazimiera) - as they navigate the local queer community of their hometown, Toronto, as despairing outsiders as they explore their identities from the sidelines of a world that feels to them increasingly mainstream and commodified.
Wow Presents Plus has a wealth of Drag Race series in its back catalog along with docs and stand up, but this is its first scripted series and represents a big moment for the platform.
Randy Barbato & Fenton Bailey, Co-founders of World of Wonder and Executive Producers, said: "Bobbi Summers' voice and vision is so hilariously unique, when we saw the series we knew we had to bring it to audiences worldwide. Bobbi's singular talent along with a magnificent supporting cast and some of the most raw and raucous jokes we've seen is a recipe for an instant WOW Presents Plus fan favorite and camp classic."
Speaking to Deadline earlier this year, Bailey and Barbato said they are serving an audience with Wow Presents Plus that "wasn't being served."
Executive Produced by Lauren Corber (How to Buy a Baby, My Dead Mom, Detention Adventure), Evan Dell'Aquila (A Kid From Somewhere, Hacker) and Lisa Filipelli (The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, Zac & Mia, Snervous), I Hate People first aired on CBC Gem, earning four Canadian Screen Award nominations and screening at Tribeca, NewFest, and Just for Laughs. The series was funded with the participation of the Independent Production Fund, Ontario Creates, The Bell Fund, and CBC.
Corber, Dell'Aquila and Filipelli said: "It's been a wonderful ride to work alongside Bobbi, along with our incredible cast and crew, to bring his singular vision to life. Bobbi has a way of making a joke feel like a form of rebellion. We trust WOW Presents Plus audiences globally will resonate with that same wicked and cathartic humor."