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.