{"id":460102,"date":"2026-06-04T05:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T05:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/460102\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T05:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T05:47:08","slug":"fox-cuts-season-of-reality-dating-show-into-101-chunks-to-feed-to-microdrama-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/460102\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox cuts season of reality dating show into 101 chunks to feed to microdrama people"},"content":{"rendered":"

America\u2019s ongoing war with its own attention spans continued apace today, as Fox announced (per Variety<\/a>) that it was taking the recently aired third-season of its reality series Farmer Wants A Wife\u2014the dating show about farmers, and the wives they want\u2014and chopping it into 101 2-minute episodes that will then be fed into My Drama<\/a>, one of several apps that cater to fans of what\u2019s been referred to as vertical or microdramas<\/a>. There, the series will live alongside such major hits as\u00a0Alpha King\u2019s Hated Princess,\u00a0The Alpha\u2019s Cursed Luna, and, of course,\u00a0My Blind Husband Is A Billionaire, all apparently popular picks on the service, which charges its users $50 per month (after introductory offers) to watch various flavors of \u201ctitle culled from the cheap parts of the Kindle Store\u201d romantic dramas in this chopped-and-screwed presentation. (Alternatively, you can interact with the grotesque microtransaction scheme the services uses for its app, where you buy Horny Robux coins that can be spent to unlock individual clips of shows, divorcing users from a sense of how much they\u2019re actually spending to watch.)<\/p>\n

All of which, Fox\u2014which rebooted\u00a0Farmer Wants A Wife\u00a0a few years back, after it had a short run on The CW in the 2000s\u2014decided it absolutely wants to experiment with getting into bed with, even though, from our quick perusal, getting in bed with anybody\u00a0on My Drama runs a serious chance of a werewolf\/mafia\/horny college professor encounter. The network will not only be putting the season of the reality dating show (which aired last year) onto the service, but will run ads promoting it during the show\u2019s upcoming fourth season finale next Tuesday, including a promo giving users enough coins to unlock all 101 chunks of the season in full. This, despite the fact that you can literally stream that whole season right now on Hulu for significantly less than a My Drama subscription costs you, and without having to swipe to the next vertically cut video every 120 seconds.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s nothing wrong with wanting to watch TV shows about horny lycanthropic college professors who may or may not ties to organized crime, of course. (Although you could probably find some made with more care than the average My Drama offering.) But these vertical drama\/microdrama sites do\u00a0often seem like they\u2019re engaging in predatory behaviors, trying to hook their viewers on salacious moments before tightening the financial noose. (You can get a much more in-depth exploration of the issues with the model right here<\/a>.) We get that TV networks are pretty damn desperate at this point to meet their viewers where they actually are\u2014i.e., their phones\u2014 at this point, but there\u2019s still something very odd about taking an existing show, cutting and editing it down for vertical consumption, and then feeding it to a site like this. Don\u2019t the Farmers deserve better than this? And what, praytell, of the Wives?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"America\u2019s ongoing war with its own attention spans continued apace today, as Fox announced (per Variety) that it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-460102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}