Netflix orders series based on YouTube star, and you won’t believe what happens next
Variety is reporting that Netflix has signed a deal for an eight-episode scripted series with online comedian Colleen Ballinger-Evans, the mind behind popular YouTube series Miranda Sings. The 5 million-subscriber-strong comedy show features Ballinger-Evans as the titular character, a fame-seeking, shrill-voiced would-be starlet clad in her signature over-applied lipstick. The YouTube series largely involves Miranda talking into the camera in a voice just this side of suicide-inducing, although she also sometimes edits herself into music videos, like Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off.”