Tubi and TikTok back 10 creator-led TV series from TikTok stars

Tubi and TikTok have picked the first creators for their Creatorverse Incubator, and the result is 10 original TV series in development. Variety, which ran the news as an exclusive on Oct 27, says Tubi will invest in 12 creators to turn their TikTok content into long-form shows.

Media Play News calls it the Fox-owned free streamer’s biggest investment yet in original programming with creators. The shows are exclusive to Tubi, which says it has 110 million monthly active users.

The 10 shows

The lineup mixes scripted and unscripted, across animation, horror, reality and YA, per Media Play News. Here is each series and who is behind it, as listed in the announcement.

• “Would You Survive?” (Christopher Kiely, @christopherkiely): horror series that breaks down scary movies, monsters and locations to decide if an average person could make it out alive.
• “Scare Tours” (Allie Tran, @chronicallyscary): visits the real-world locations of iconic scary movies and meets special guests.
• “Feeling Super” (Lynnell Jones Jr., @felleanimated): animated comedy about a broke young man who gets a new superpower every day.
• “Kai Picks the Guy” (Kai Cameron, @kaicameronisacelebrity): dating show where three men think they are there to date a woman, then get vetted by Kai instead.
• “The Roach Chronicles” (Kendria Bland, @kendria_bland): animated series about a dysfunctional family of cockroaches.
• “Never Have I Spent the Winter With the Romano Brothers” (Yasmine Sahid, @ladyyasmina1): comedy about a city teen who moves to small-town Alaska after losing her parents. Alex Maystrik and Pablo Hernandez (@durafest2) play the two brothers.
• “The Leasing Manager” (Madison Humphrey, @madison.humphreyy): comedy about an apartment leasing manager chasing 100% occupancy while sabotaging a rival.
• “A Great Australian Gay Sidequest” (Marc Sebastian, @MarcSebastianF): a trip through Australia’s most unusual tourist experiences.
• “Asking for a Friend” (Sabrina Brier, @sabrina.cinoman.brier): comedy where Brier and celebrity guests work through modern friendship chaos.
• “Jamie Crow” (Sebastian Krahl, @sebastiank22): adult animated series about a high school senior obsessed with serial killers.

Media Play News counts 10 selected creators, while Variety counts 12 and names Maystrik and Hernandez among the cohort.

What Tubi and TikTok said

The Incubator is where we come in as their partner, giving them the creative freedom to grow what they’ve started.— Kudzi Chikumbu, VP of creator partnerships at Tubi, per Variety

Chikumbu called these the creators’ “first TV shows.” TikTok’s Dawn Yang, global head of entertainment and microseries, said their communities “show just how much people connect with creator-led storytelling.”

Media Play News says the picks are recognized across entertainment, from award-show and film festival red carpets to TikTok’s Discover List and Showbiz List.

How we got here

1. MarchTubi and TikTok first announce the Creatorverse Incubator
2. Oct 27The first 10 series are revealed

Tubi launched its Creatorverse creator platform in June 2025. Per Media Play News, it has since added more than 35,000 episodes from more than 700 creators. It has also put that content on Fire TV and opened a Creatorverse Hub for browsing.

What happens next

No premiere dates or episode counts have been announced, so for now these are series in development.