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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,...

I Hate People, People Hate Me, a new six-episode dark comedy about two friends navigating Toronto’s queer community as outliers, will debut this November on CBC Gem.

Produced by LoCo Motion Pictures and hailing from creator and star Bobbi Summers, the series will hit the streaming service on Nov. 7, with the first two episodes set to stream globally the same day on the CBC Comedy YouTube channel. Ahead of its release, the series has also dropped a red-band trailer offering a (mature) first look at the show, which is directed by Blake Mawson and also stars Lily Kazimiera and Alden McWayne.

An exploration of queer identity as queerness has become more mainstream and commodified, the offbeat comedy is inspired tonally, in part, by films like Ghost World, Good Burger and Welcome to the Dollhouse alongside Summers’ diaries, written while in their 20s. The show follows Jovi (Summers) and Tabitha...