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TikTok is making TV. The popular video platform is debuting an original sketch comedy series titled Stapleview. The series will air weekly on TikTok’s live platform with its own dedicated channel and subsequent distribution. Created and executive produced by Sam Grey, Stapleview is described as “a modern take on sketch comedy and variety show formats featuring a collection of popular individual content creators,” per Deadline. Popular TikTok content creators Dylan Adler, Sydney Battle, Sarah Coffey, Gray Fagan, DaMya Gurley, Grace Reiter, and Jane Wickline make up the Stapleview cast. Collectively, they have over 7 million followers. The series will air live in multi-camera format on TikTok starting Thursday, March 3. It will include sketches, segments, musical bits, and more. Each episode will run between 40 minutes to an hour. “Our artists and writers are a talented and nimble bunch, and we are excited to come together to blaze trails as the first comedy sketch show on TikTok,...

While TikTok has long been a conduit for comedy, its live platform is getting set to debut its first fully produced sketch comedy series, the Sam Grey-backed Stapleview.

Beginning Thursday, the show will stream along with a dedicated channel on TikTok Live, with subsequent distribution across social media. The official announcement of the venture describes Stapleview as “a modern take on sketch comedy and variety show formats featuring a collection of popular individual content creators.”

Grey, who is Stapleview’s creator and executive producer, is a former manager and producer at Management 360 and Lorne Michaels’ Broadway Video. He executive produced Tina Fey feature comedy Whiskey Tango Foxtrot and the upcoming comedy Sacramento. His late father, Brad Grey, was a noted comedy manager who went on to become CEO of Paramount Pictures.

The aim of Stapleview is to offer TikTok users the best in social media and influencer comedy with segments,...