#HULU QUICKDRAW HOW TO#
We sort of learned how to create this style that was very different from anything else that was going on at the time. And when people found out it was all improvised, they were just like, “What? Sure!” and loved it. Quick Draw had a real underground following, a real dedicated fan base. When did you realize Quick Draw was a hit? There’s all these tricks that I’ve learned over the years, and now a lot of what I do is coaching other people about pitching which has been really fun. I was like, “Holy shit, I’m not an artist, I’m in sales.” Because you come in, it’s just a PowerPoint, or sometimes you show visuals or videos– sometimes we go old school with cards with things glued on– and we’d rehearse it. It dawned on me after doing it for a few years. From our point of view, from the creator side, it’s essentially a sales presentation. What has that been like on your end? Was there any change in the pitch and creation process for you? Is it any different producing for a streaming service versus a network? So you did 10 Things on TBS, and then Quick Draw goes to Hulu. They bought it and we ended up doing three seasons of 10 Items Or Less on TBS. They gave us the money to shoot a pilot, and then shipped the pilot over to TBS. So we pitched a show called 10 Items Or Less, to Sony, who bought it in the room. But Nancy was one who said, “Why don’t we do a show in a grocery store?” And we were both like, “Yeah! Why hasn’t a show been done in a grocery store?” And, you know as soon as you ask that question, you’re onto something. We pitched this show– we knew we wanted to do TV, and there was a big grocery store strike happening at the time in LA so it was on our minds.
And that kind of gave us enough credibility to go in and pitch. Nancy directed, and I was in it, and it won Slamdance.
#HULU QUICKDRAW MOVIE#
And we shot that together and loved working in this style– the movie was all improv. It was called Memron, and it makes fun of the Enron scandal, which was that corporate scandal in the 80s. Well, Nancy and I met working on an independent movie.
#HULU QUICKDRAW TV#
Quick Draw’s co-creator Nancy Hower, and your production company Howler TV – how’d you two get connected? Like, “When is the third season coming out?” And I had to be like, “Ah, well…” That’s been happening a lot! During the pandemic, I started getting lots of people reaching out who had never seen it before. To start off, I’m a Quick Draw fan but I only found it like two years ago, mid-pandemic. We spoke with Lehr about improv, the streaming age, and which of the cast looked best in a dress. Now, almost ten years later, the show is just as popular as ever, with new pandemic fans popping up out of the saloon woodwork to rope and ride with the gang. The show followed Harvard graduate Sheriff John Henry Hoyle, played by the show’s co-creator John Lehr, as he attempted to use forensic science to protect the people of Great Bend, Kansas, and tame the wild, wild West. The reason? This comedy-sketch-Western, created by Howler Monkey Productions, was entirely improvised. Although it only lasted two seasons, one of these, Quick Draw, became an underground sensation. Way back in 2013, Hulu was just getting off the ground, and experimenting with their first few original shows.
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