Based on an acclaimed vimeo web series created by katja blichfeld and ben sinclair the show chronicles the comedy and pathos of new york city living through the brief encounters of the guy, an. Based on the web series from katja blichfeld and ben sinclair, high maintenance stars sinclair as the guy, a bikeriding, weed delivery salesman with an eclectic variety of brooklyn clients. Hbo announced on monday 420, natch that it has picked up six episodes of the comedy, which features. The firstever vimeo original web series explores the lives of those using marijuana to cope, socialize and escape. It debuted as a vimeo web series the same month that washington state and colorado passed measures to legalize marijuana for recreational.
T he vimeo web series high maintenance, about a brooklyn marijuana delivery dealer and his colorful clients, is headed to television hbo announced monday that it. High maintenance may also be the first indie web series that could plausibly launch its own genre. Wordofmouth among stoners and the people who love them earned high maintenance a dedicated web audience. This quirky show is also on vimeo, where high maintenance got its start. The weed dealer conceit is used primarily as a vehicle to tell stories about different types of new yorkers. Watch the new season of high maintenance on vimeo and save. It was perhaps inevitable that high maintenancethe sensational web series about a weed dealer would make its way to hbo. The shows second hbo season premiered on january 19, 2018, and its third on january 20, 2019. Vimeo is entering the original programming game with web series. High maintenance is an american anthology comedydrama television and web series created. Depsite the subject matter, this is far from a standard stoner comedy. High maintenance creators talk jumping from streaming to hbo. Vimeo original series high maintenance to premiere new. The new season of high maintenance starts in the same spot hbos first season started.
High maintenance vimeo on demand series acquired by hbo. Katja blichfeld and ben sinclairs successful web series makes a smooth. Hbo bets big on high maintenance, vimeos pot dealer web. There wasnt much competition for quality among web series when high maintenance launched on vimeo in 2012, but the show went beyond raising the bar to invent a whole new set of. Vimeos comedic marijuana web series high maintenance is about to enter rarefied air. Katja blichfeld, a casting director on 30 rock, and her husband ben sinclair, who plays the drug dealer, created this hit web series about the. Characters include middleaged women coping with cancer to. All 19 previous episodes of high maintenance will be made available on hbo, hbo now and hbo go. Vimeo finances web series high maintenance hollywood reporter.
Hbo will produce six new episodes of the buzzy and popular web series high maintenance. Each episode, made by husbandandwife team katja blichfield and ben sinclair, is smallscale. Enter high maintenance, the cult web series that premiered its second season on vimeo yesterday. A web series on vimeo since 2012, high maintenance makes the move. High maintenance started out in 2012 as a humane, intimate web series about a brooklyn weed dealer, created by husband and wife team katja blichfeld and ben sinclair as a weekend hobby. Although high maintenance originally launched back in 2012, video streaming service vimeo has just recently chosen to produce new episodes of the cannabiscentric vignettes as an original series through its ondemand service. Were elated to be working directly with vimeo to make our series with the creative control a television. Vimeo series high maintenance shows nyc marijuana delivery life. A new web series that explores the fictionalized life of a weed dealer known only as the guy. The late show with stephen colbert ben sinclair imagines. Vimeos criticallyacclaimed web series high maintenance is making the jump to the big time. There are 19 episodes to date, roughly ten minutes each, and this past 420 it was announced that hbo has ordered six television episodes of it to air.
Vimeo hosted the shows first season and recently invested in a second as part of their original content strategy, proving once again that theyve got great taste. High maintenance, the vimeo web series that debuted in 2012 and. Brooklyns favorite pot dealer returns the new york times. Hbo orders six episodes of the potdealer series high. Amazon, hulu and netflix are finding gold in original content, and now, vimeo is getting in on the act by going green. It was created by the husbandandwife team of ben sinclair and katja blichfeld.
Now available on hbo, this series follows the misadventures of a new york weed dealer. Blichfeld and sinclair write, direct, and produce high maintenance, a web series about a nyc weed dealer. High maintenance is coming soon to hbo for 6 new episodes. Birgit huppuch and chris mckinney star alongside cocreator ben sinclair, who plays matchmaker and weed dealer to the pair. The late show with stephen colbert posted an episode of a show.
For a while now, vimeo has been noted as little more than youtubes prettier sister. There is a lot of weed and a lot of weed smoking, but thats not what the show. Hbo is new dealer for vimeos high maintenance popoptiq. High maintenance official website for the hbo series. High maintenance, a hilarious web series about a pot dealer. Created by katja blichfeld and ben sinclair, the web series has already released 19 episodes about a nameless weed dealer who resides in brooklyn, and hbo will. We also were attracted to doing something for the web. High maintenance, the vimeo on demand comedic web series, is back for its 2nd season. Viewer comments on vimeo unironically celebrated it as the best web series ive ever. The show, which can currently be seen on vimeo, centers on a marijuana dealer who travels in and out of peoples new york city apartments and lives.
Vimeo launches original web series about a weed dealer in nyc. New web series looks into the life of a dealer cannabis now. This month, the qualityfocused, videosharing site stepped. Vimeo finances web series high maintenance hollywood. Ben sinclair in high maintenance vimeo the subtle class politics of high maintenance. Katja blichfeld and ben sinclair executive produced by. Hbo just bought a new web series with pick up of vimeos high. High maintenance originally premiered as a web series on vimeo on november 11, 2012 and began airing as a television series on hbo on september 16, 2016. Vimeo takes a bet on high maintenance as its first. Meet high maintenance, a game changer in the world of both web series and vimeo.
Katja blichfeld, russell gregory, ben sinclair for high maintenance olivia on vimeo. Vimeo releases three new episodes of the heralded web series high maintenance available now exclusively on vimeo on demand. Vimeos web comedy series high maintenance is crossing over to tv with a sixepisode order by hbo. Ben sinclair, who plays a weed dealer in hbos high maintenance, says theres someone who could really use that product. If high maintenance, the glorious web series turned hbo show about a weed dealer and his petitbourgeois clientele, were a person, i would hide from it. But the streaming service is taking things up a notch by investing in paid programs like the critically acclaimed web series high maintenance.
Pot web comedy high maintenance moves to hbo with series. High maintenance is a very popular series on the other side of the pond. The best web series about stoners just got picked up by hbo. High maintenance web series on marijuana deliveryman draws. Why vimeo funded a show about a weed dealer few markers of success are as universally agreed upon as getting your likeness plastered on the side of a new york city bus. The premise is the same a weed dealer known only as the guy. Hbo announced monday the webonly comedy series high maintenance, which follows a new york marijuana dealer and his crazy diverse group of clients, is coming to television from video sharing site vimeo for six new episodes, according to deadline.
Katja blichfeld, a casting director on 30 rock, and her husband ben sinclair, who plays the drug dealer, created this hit web series about the notsoseedy underbelly of big apple stoners. The story behind the webs buzziest weed series high maintenance how two married writers turned an online series about a new york pot dealer into a vimeosponsored mustsee hit. The announcement came on april 20, affectionately known to stoners as national weed day. Follow your favorite weed dealer as he casually drops in on the dramatic and varied lives of his customers, new york smokers. The increasingly popular series was created by husbandandwife team, ben sinclair and katja blichfeld. Ben sinclair and katja blichfelds weed web series marks vimeos first foray into original content. Despite the dope, high maintenance is about more than potheads vimeos first foray into original web tv follows a nameless pot delivery dude. Sinclair and blichfeld began posting episodes of the serial, which stars sinclair as a pot dealer who. Vimeo serves up another hit of high maintenance new. The popular vimeo web series, high maintenance, now has a new home on hbo. Katja blichfelds wonderful web series high maintenance. Vimeo launches original web series about a weed dealer in. Luckily there are a ton of great web series that will scratch that hm itch. Ben sinclair, the cocreator of the web series appears as the guy, a marijuana delivery courier his.
Recommended by jenji kohan during her latest thr roundtable, which is how i was made aware of its existence, high maintenance is comprised of episodes following the life of various weed consumers all over new york city, who are all linked by one person. Deadline reports that hbo has snapped up the show, making it only the second online production to ever be promoted to premium cable, joining showtimes web therapy. On march 19, 2019, hbo renewed the series for a fourth season which premiered on february 7, 2020. Heres why you and everyone you know will be watching high maintenance this fall. The online comedy gained notoriety as the firstever vimeo original series when the streaming video site partnered. This series began life as a web series, lasting between 5 and 11 minutes, totalling 19 episodes up. Vimeo is known throughout the web as the upscale youtube. Watch high maintenance the web series soon to become. This move is now being seen as an attempt to enter. Hbo picked national weed day to announce that it was picking up a web series about a pot dealer. Created by katja blichfeld and ben sinclair, this web series that inspired the hbo comedy explores the intriguing, often eccentric private lives of dozens of new yorkers with one connection.
How high maintenance became the buzziest weed web series. I f youd never seen the online show high maintenance and only heard the premise, you might think it was a romp designed for bluntsmoking hipsters. High maintenance originally premiered as a web series on vimeo on. When video game high school, a popular web series that runs on youtube, began putting out individual episodes of their next season, they launched the.
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