A YouTube Star Explains Why Most of His Peers Can’t Make the Jump to TV

Olan Rogers said collaboration was the key to getting his own TBS animated comedy, Final Space

For the past couple years, several media companies have snatched up many of YouTube’s most popular personalities to create content for their own linear and/or digital properties in an effort to attract their rabid millennial and Generation Z fans to their own platforms. However, only a fraction of those YouTube stars have been able to successfully transition to TV.

One of them is Olan Rogers, the creator of TBS’ upcoming animated sci-fi comedy Final Space—executive produced by Conan O’Brien—which will premiere Monday, Feb.

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