Who will mourn the name of Quibi? He will quickly bite from the tree of sorrow and cry over all things Murder Homes tog on-Flipped? Grieving, friends: The food cannons were silenced; Chrissy’s court is closed. The golden arm has lost its luster, Excluded has the way of Excluded, en Survive simple … do not have. Quibi is dead. Quibi lost everything. En noh, it even lost its name.
That is to say: Roku, has decided to make use of the extensive Quibi library after the phone-based streaming service bit super fucking hard last year, he decided to launch his new and numerous port-major acquisitions for their revival in 2021. The various Quibi properties will soon no longer ‘bite fast’ available on the ad-supported Roku Channel will now be called ‘Roku Originals’, which can definitely solve the problem. (Having a bunch of content specifically shot to broadcast on phones on your home TV will not seem awkward.)
But while we mocked Quibi for a few things about his short life – it’s bad name it’s bad concept, his apparent belief that all his (bad) problems can be solved by throwing heaps of money cash at Jeffrey Katzenberg – the fact is that it did give a lot of people a lot of money to make their thing, and that acquiring Roku means that at least a dozen show that never even on the streaming service will not be broadcast, they will have a chance to broadcast. Plus, hey: Reno 911! Can’t say no to beloved Roku Original Reno 911!, right?