'Rick and Morty' co-creator is making an esports sitcom with the Game Grumps
What do you get when combine a co-creator of Rick and Morty with some of the most popular video game streamers on YouTube? An esports sitcom.
Dan Harmon -- creator of Community and Rick and Morty -- is teaming up with YouTubers Arin "Egoraptor" Hanson and Dan Avidan -- the Game Grumps -- to create a YouTube Red show. A sitcom about an esports team, specifically.
The show doesn't have a name yet, but the six-episode series will follow five esports players who create a new team and try to make it in the world of competitive gaming. The series is expected to debut in 2017 and each episode will be about 30 minutes long.
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The show will feature the two creators, Michele Morrow and Jesse Cox, and the Game Grumps, and is executive produced by Harmon, Hanson and others.
The co-creators discussed the series in a video posted shortly after the announcement:
"We're excited to be the ones finally bringing video game content to YouTube," Harmon joked in a release.
The show will be available through the Game Grumps YouTube channel to YouTube Red subscribers, which costs $9.99 a month.
