The Garden Harvest: The Stream Flows Both Ways
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The Stream Flows Both Ways
The typical story goes like this: something starts on digital, builds an audience, and eventually gets picked up by a streamer with bigger money and wider reach. The direction of travel has felt almost gravitational, digital to legacy, creator to institution.
Somebody Feed Phil is about to go the other way.
Phil Rosenthal, the creator behind Everybody Loves Raymond and the Emmy-nominated culinary travel series, has signed a deal with Banijay Americas that will move new episodes of Somebody Feed Phil to a dedicated YouTube channel starting in 2027. The back catalog, eight seasons worth, stays on Netflix. But going forward, YouTube becomes the primary home for new content, alongside a slate of short-form material built around the show.
The reasons Rosenthal gives are worth sitting with. He points to Everybody Loves Raymond being free to watch everywhere as something he always loved about that show, and frames the YouTube move as a return to that …
