AMC decides to recreate Quibi, release The Audacity pilot in three-minute clips on TikTok

And if that sounds familiar, great news: You either watch a lot of movies and TV shows like this anyway, or you’re one of a quickly fading number of people who remember Quibi, the short-lived streaming platform entirely built around cutting longer shows into shorter chunks of vertical video. Admittedly, The Audacity‘s 21 three-minute clips are quicker bites than what the long-defunct streaming platform trafficked in, but we still feel a warmth in our heart at the idea that Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman’s dreams live on (in a place besides the depths of Roku’s content libraries). Marketing executives for AMC noted that the hope is that chopping and screwing the Jonathan Glatzer series “Will help us bring in a younger audience.” The undercurrent—emphasized by the fact that the show has already been greenlit for a second season before the Reels have even had a chance to roll—is that AMC would really, really like this one to be a hit.

Amazingly, this is not the Audacity launch strategy that feels least likely to succeed; the series will also simulcast on Samsung TV Plus, a streaming offering we dare you to answer, off the top of your head, whether you have access to right now. (It’ll also stream in a more normal way on AMC+, and debut on the actual AMC network on April 12.)