Tuesday, June 11, 2019

Steven Spielberg working on a new series, Spielberg After Dark, that viewers will only be able to watch when it's dark.


Taking advantage of some of the newly afforded options of producing TV content in a video streaming world, the legendary filmmaker and director Steven Spielberg is working on a new series that viewers will only be able to watch when it's dark.

With the working title of Spielberg After Dark, the series that Steven Spielberg is creating as "a super scary story" for yet another upcoming new streaming called Quibi that will be launched in April 2020 by Jeffrey Katzenberg, will only work and play on people's digital devices during night time.

The in-built clocks on mobile devices will allow Spielberg After Dark to play or not.

The series - essentially one long movie - like other content on Quibi - will be released in 10-minute mini-sodes.

"He's writing it himself," Jeffrey Katzenberg said of the show at a press conference on Sunday at the Banff World Media Festival in Canada. "He hasn't written anything in a while so getting him to write something is fantastic."