Jordan Peele’s new sci-fi comedy anthology Weird City will find its home on YouTube Premium.
Weird City, according to TVLine, is set in the near future in the city of Weird, just like it says on the packaging. In the science fiction tradition, the show aims to tackle contemporary issues in today’s world, but Peele and Charlie Sanders, former writer on Key & Peele and co-creator of Weird City, will put a comedic twist on their stories with wit and whimsy.
Peele has high praise for his new collaborator and high hopes for his series: “Writer/creator Charlie Sanders and I collaborated on some Key & Peele sketches that took on everything from the ‘Black Republicans’ to ‘Continental Breakfasts’ to ‘Family Matters.’ Now, with YouTube we present a series of comedy-driven, twisted-ass science fiction stories that take place in a world close to ours but just a little bit off.”
Weird City will premiere on YouTube Premiere, the platform’s subscription service, in 2019.