Vimeo gets into the original content game after funding six new ‘High Maintenance’ episodes

Taking a page from the Netflix playbook, Vimeo has invested in its first original TV show. The company is funding a further six episodes of the Web series High Maintenance, which has already released 13 episodes and a couple of video extras on the platform. The show was created by Katja Blichfield, a casting director for 30 Rock with an Emmy Award to her name, and husband Ben Sinclair, who plays the lead character in High Maintenance and is also the show’s director, writer and producer. High Maintenance follows a nameless cannabis dealer in good ol’ New York. Each episode...



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