Drag Queens Trixie Mattel, Katya Zamolodchikova Launch Viceland TV Show Based Off Hit Web Series ‘UNHhhh’

Two of the drag community’s sassiest queens are bringing their shtick to television. Trixie Mattel (real name Brian Firkus) and Katya Zamolodchikova (real name Brian McCook) are the stars of The Trixie & Katya Show, a program on the Viceland TV channel that is the successor to their hit web series UNHhhh.

In The Trixie & Katya Show, the titular queens dish on a multitude of subjects in a stream of consciousness style. As they do, their dialgoues are punctuated with campy green-screen effects and colorful blocks of text. Man-on-the-street segments and question-and-answer sessions add variety to the 22-minute program. In the premiere, which was made available on YouTube 12 days before its premiere on television, Trixie & Katya share their thoughts on hookups:

The Trixie & Katya Show is stylistically similar to UNHhhh. The queens’ web series spanned 68 episodes on WOWPresents, the YouTube channel run by RuPaul’s Drag Race producer World of Wonder. Along the way, its individual installments regularly rolled up seven-digit view counts

, and it earned a Show of the Year nomination at the 7th annual Streamy Awards, during which Katya presented a segment.

Both hosts of The Trixie & Katya Show gained fame as cast members on the seventh season of Drag Race, which airs on Logo. Their new series is a co-production between World of Wonder and Vice, the latter of which launched Viceland in 2016.

“As drag queens and as comic people, we listen to our own artistic compass all the time,” Trixie Mattel told Fast Company. “That was our biggest concern, when Viceland was like, ‘Yes!’ we were like ‘Have you seen [UNHhhh]? Do you know what we think is funny?’ We got a resounding 1,000% supportive yes. There was no questioning. For actual famous celebrities who are real people and who are gorgeous, that never happens.”

The first episode of The Trixie & Katya Show premieres at 10 PM EST on November 15.