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Tubi Revives AMC’s Shelved Sci-Fi Comedy Demascus for August 7 Premiere

The deal brokered by Tubi’s Benin Mtume with AMC’s Mark Dee-Shapland underscores the streamer’s strategy of giving new life to completed yet unaired projects

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Overview

  • Tubi has acquired the six-episode series and will premiere Demascus on August 7 as a Tubi Original.
  • The deal underscores a growing trend of free streamers enhancing their lineups by rescuing completed yet unaired projects from established networks.
  • AMC Networks canceled Demascus in January 2023 after production wrapped in late 2022 as part of a broader cost-cutting initiative.
  • The series was developed under AMC’s scripts-to-series program by Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm with Kirk A. Moore serving as co-showrunner.
  • The sci-fi comedy follows a 33-year-old Black man on a self-discovery journey using experimental reality-bending technology and stars Okieriete Onaodowan alongside Janet Hubert, Caleb Eberhardt, Shakira Ja’nai Paye and Martin Lawrence.