Quibi has released the official trailer for Funny or Die’s upcoming comedy series titled Flipped, starring SNL alum Will Forte and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia star Kaitlin Olson as home renovation experts who suddenly get involved with a drug cartel. The series is set to debut this coming April. Check out the video in the player below!
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Flipped follows the story of a chronically underemployed couple Jann (Forte) and Cricket Melfi (Olson), self-proclaimed home renovation “experts” who are more than confident they are television’s next great home design celebrity duo. However, things get messy when the clueless pair gets kidnap by members of a drug cartel, who they stole money from. In order to survive, the couple must renovate their kidnappers’ sprawling homes as a way of repaying their half a million debt.
The series stars Emmy-nominated comedic actor Will Forte (MacGruber, The Last Man on Earth) and Kaitlyn Olson (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Mick) along with Eva Longoria (Desperate Housewives), Oscar nominee Andy Garcia (The Godfather Part III, Ocean’s Eleven) and Arturo Castro.
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Flipped is written and created by Funny or Die’s Steve Mallory and Damon Jones. The series is directed by Ryan Case, who also serves as an executive producer along with Jones, Mallory, Joe Farrell, and Steve Burgess. It also produced by Adrien Finkel and Whitney Hodack.
Quibi, which is short for “Quick Bites” is scheduled to have its launch on April 6, 2020, with already more than a billion dollars raised from its investors. The streaming service, founded by Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman, is set to feature series that run two to four hours in length and are broken down into parts that are no longer than 10 minutes in length.
