Here’s what you can watch on Quibi on launch day.
Quibi, the new streamer you’ve been hearing about for months but never bothered to Google, is officially here. The mobile-only short-form video streamer debuted Monday, April 6 with an abundance, and we do mean an abundance, of video options.
No one can figure out whether this is good or bad timing for Quibi. In theory, more people are looking for streamable content than ever before, but at the same time, short and bite-sized is less of a priority than ever before.
Time will tell whether Quibi is a contender in the streaming wars, but for now, let’s focus on getting you up to speed on launch day.
What is Quibi?
Quibi, short for “quick bites” but pronounced “Qui-Bee” and not “Qui-Bye,” is a shortform video streaming platform. It’s mobile-only and subscription based, but beyond that, it’s limitless. The shows and content cover drama and comedy, unscripted and scripted, news, etc. All the shows feature episodes of 10 minutes or less and the lineup is star-studded to the extreme.
Quibi shows are designed to be watched “during pauses” — on your commute, before a meeting, in a waiting room. You have no doubt seen the endless Quibi commercials in which the company enlists celebrities to do their damndest to make “a quibi” a cool and acceptable increment of time. “How long is the wait?” “Two quibis.” You get it.
After a 90-day free trial, Quibi costs $5 a month with advertising or you can ad-free for $8 a month.
What can you watch on Quibi on launch day?
Quibi is playing the quantity game in a big way. (Over quality? Who is yet to say.) The platform will launch with three episodes of its first 50 titles and then 25 episodes (which amounts to three hours) every weekday after that. The Guardian reports it is planning to release 175 original shows in the first year.
Here are the Quibi shows you can watch on launch day:
“Movies in Chapters”
- When the Streetlights Go On
- Most Dangerous Game
- Survive
- Flipped
Unscripted and Docs
- Memory Hole
- I Promise
- Thanks A Million
- Chrissy’s Court
- Punk’d
- Murder House Flip
- Skrrt with Offset
- Nikki Fre$h
- The Sauce
- &MUSIC
- Gone Mental with Lior
- Singled Out
- Gayme Show!
- Dishmantled
- You Ain’t Got These
- Prodigy
- Fierce Queens
- Run This City
- Shape of Pasta
- NightGowns
“Daily Essentials”
- Last Night’s Late Night
- The Daily Chill
- Pop5
- The Nod with Brittany & Eric
- No Filter by TMZ: AM and No Filter by TMZ: PM
- Speedrun by Polygon
- Trailers by Fandango
- The Rachel Hollis Show
- Sports AM by TSN
- The Replay by ESPN
- All The Feels by the Dodo
- Close Up by E! News
- Fresh Daily by Rotten Tomatoes
- Sexology with Shan Boodram
- Around the World by BBC News
- Morning Report by NBC NEWS
- Evening Report by NBC NEWS
- Saturday Report by NBC NEWS
- Sunday Report by NBC NEWS
- Fashion’s A Drag
- Pulso News by Telemundo
- For the Cultura by Telemundo
- Weather Today by The Weather Channel
- NewsDay by CTV News and NewsNight by CTV News
What’s coming to Quibi?
Here’s what Quibi has planned for the rest of the year.
Scripted
- Agua Donkeys
- The Stranger
- #FreeRayshawn
- 50 States of Fright
- Dummy
- Don’t Look Deeper
- Frat Boy Genius
- The Fugitive
- Crazy Talented
- The Last American Vampire
- Untitled Guillermo del Toro projec
- El Señor de Los Cielos prequel
- Swimming With Sharks
- Wireless
- Charlemagne
- Toys
- Transmissions
- Code 8 spin-off
- CURS_R
- Dead Spots
- Just One Drink
- Heartbeats
- Royalties
- Mapleworth Murders
- The Now
- Varsity Blues
- Winos
- How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
- Last Resort
- Untitled Cara Delevingne prank show
- Kirby Jenner
- Nice One!
- Rapper Warrior Ninja
- Die Hart
- Junior High
- Skinny Dip
- Reno 911!
- Untitled Trevor Noah series
- Black Coffee
- Trill League
- Gloop World
- Immoral Compass
- Micro Mayhem
- Q Talks
- Spielberg’s After Dark
- Wolves and Villagers
- Emma
- Tomie
- Ice Cream Man
Unscripted & Docs
- Fresh Dressed
- Elba vs. Block
- Fight Like a Girl
- Let’s Roll with Tony Greenhand
- Iron Sharpens Iron
- Cup of Joe
- Floored
- Beauty
- Untitled beauty industry show
- Biggest Little Cook-Off
- Benedict Men
- Centerpiece
- Untitled music competition series
- This Day in Useless Celebrity History
- Killing Zac Efron
- Slugfest
- Blackballed
- Last Looks
- Potty Talk
- Empires of Luxury
- Life-Size Toys
- The Andy Cohen Diaries
- Legends of the Hidden Temple
- The Hot Drop
- High & Low
- Barkitecture
- Murder Unboxed
- FaZe Up
- Moving the Needle With Dr. Woo
- Pillow Talk With Demi Lovato
- Let’s Go Atsuko!
- How We Met
- Sex Next Door
- Squeaky Clean
- 48 Laws of Power
“Daily Essentials”
- Your Daily Horoscope
- Hot Off the Mic
- The Drop