Irony Point Chiefs on ‘I Think You Should Leave’ Season 3 Plans

Irony Point is a production company that may not be widely known by name, but whose projects, critically acclaimed Netflix “I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson”; Paramount Plus’ revival of “Inside Amy Schumer” and Hulu’s recently revamped drama “Life & Beth”; Lorne Michaels’ HBO Max show “That Damn Michael Che,” and Marvel’s new podcast “Squirrel Girl,” it certainly is.

The banner, which entered one year into a three-year deal at Netflix, is chaired by co-chairs Alex Bach and Daniel Powell. And their fast-growing company is one that studios and talent will regret not having entered the business five years ago.

“Our partnership with Endeavor Content at Life & Beth are two giants and operate in a budget space we’ve never come close to before,” Powell says. diverse. “Being partnered with them as the studio has really allowed us to get our first experience in what I would say is a different league, but we hope to continue it.”

Powell and Bach say the same goes for the Irony Point team with Broadway Video on Che’s HBO Max that “really helped create this amazing relationship with NBCUniversal that we didn’t have before.”

The duo also teamed up with “Black Mirror” bosses Charlie Brooker and Annabelle Jones’s production company Broke And Bones on the Netflix special “Death to 2021,” for which Irony Point took over the production services. Powell says Irony Point is engaged in “active development talks about potential future specials later this year” with Broke And Bones.

For now, Irony Point is looking to grow through “strategic partnerships” like these, rather than merger and acquisition opportunities, like fellow “Inside Amy Schumer” producers Jax Media found in the Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment acquisitions.

“We would never want to do anything that would make us unattractive to the kind of talent we want to work with,” Bach said. “We really respect companies like Jax and what they’ve done with Imagine… It’s really nice that they have their own model of one path we can take. Having said that, I think we’re very different, in our own way, and that’s not necessarily our path.”

“Right now, we’re just trying to keep our eyes on continuing to make quality stuff with great talent and making sure we have the confidence of the talent we’re working with,” Powell added.

This includes expanding Irony Point’s reach into audio broadcasting, something the company has been doing since 2019 with its Radio Point banner, which was launched in partnership with Smartless Media president Rich Corson and audio producer Houston Snyder. Like diverse Exclusively reported earlier this week, Point Radio’s Irony Point producing Marvel’s newly launched SiriusXM podcast series “Marvel’s Squirrel Girl: The Unbeatable Radio Show,” based on Ryan North’s “Squirrel Girl” comics.

“We’re seeing huge growth in the business on the podcast side,” Bach said. We have a project now with Big Money Players Network, Will Ferrell’s company, which iHeart Radio will distribute. We just launched our first children’s and family show based on the popular ‘Who Was?’ book series with the Penguin. We have a narrative show with Spotify that we’re writing right now. On the podcast side, we’re just seeing a lot of growth, and being able to work with Marvel is definitely very exciting for us.”

Powell said it all started as “almost a development experience” out of Irony Point’s Great City Post, a full-service audio facility in Manhattan.

“We have this sound infrastructure and we have sound engineers and mixers and artists who have done feature films. We can easily produce something in high quality from a sound design perspective. So why not use that in the development incubator? That led to our first project,” Powell said. “But since then Radio Point has really become comparable to Irony Point in the sense that because of our sound infrastructure, we’ve been able to bring production services to Marvel and iHeart and in a way that we do creative development — but we’ve also been brought in to handle soup production services for podcasts, Plus the TV.”

Despite significant growth looming, it’s hard not to return to Irony Point’s currently most popular series: a whimsical Netflix graphic comedy I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson, which she is co-producing with Party Over Here’s Akiva Schaffer and Ali Bell. The series has yet to be renewed for a third season, with a second release in July 2021 and the first in April 2018, but Bach assures us that doesn’t mean there won’t be a season 3.

“The thing about ‘I think you should leave,’ more than anything, is that Tim Robinson and Zach Kanin write every script themselves,” Bach said. “Very much, the vast majority of the writing process is the two of them. And they’re just waiting for the graphics to get to them. It’s just about really writing what they want it to be and that kind of delays everything. No Delay, But that’s why we extend time periods between seasons. And they have other things going on, too. They don’t come out with graphics the way they might have done on SNL. They just won their second WGA Award for Season 2, so it’s working. And so we like, if it ain’t broken, don’t fix it.”