Chick-Fil-A Reportedly Planning to Launch a Actuality TV Streaming Service

An organization recognized primarily for fried hen sandwiches and homophobia is now transferring into the leisure trade. Chick-fil-A, which admittedly sells among the most scrumptious sandwiches ever produced on planet earth, is planning to launch its personal streaming service, which is able to reportedly be populated by unique content material, together with actuality TV reveals.

Per a report from Deadline, Chick-fil-A has been “working with plenty of main manufacturing corporations” in an effort to conjure up “family-friendly reveals,” with a particular give attention to “unscripted” content material. The funds for some unscripted content material might run as excessive as $400k per half-hour episode, the report says. Whereas particulars are in any other case scant, Deadline notes that the corporate has already developed a “family-friendly gameshow,” which is able to contain ten episodes. Along with such content material, the corporate can be considering “scripted tasks and animation,” the report notes. The undertaking is being led by Brian Gibson, a TV veteran who has been concerned with different high-level actuality TV, like High Gear.

Gizmodo reached out to Chick-fil-A for extra data and can replace this story after we obtain a response.

Deadline notes that giant manufacturers launching their very own video content material is one thing of an trade pattern nowadays (and an odious one, at that). Usually, corporations will fund programming that promotes their merchandise in a cheerful or goofy gentle. Deadline notes that each Lyft and Airbnb have produced applications that includes their very own merchandise, however there’s additionally Ring Nation, a collection developed by Amazon that featured humorous movies allegedly taken by the corporate’s house surveillance techniques. It stays to be seen whether or not the “recreation present” the corporate has backed will contain quizzes about Chick-fil-A condiments.

In years previous, Chick-fil-A stirred the ire of GLAAD and different LGBTQ organizations by donating money to anti-gay groups. Ultimately, the corporate stopped doing this. Then, extra just lately, the restaurant chain stirred the ire of MAGA varieties, who accused the corporate of going “woke” when it decided to roll out a DEI program. The corporate’s pivot in the direction of actuality TV—a notably culture-war-free zone—might be a wise alternative.