Hot Ones is headed to Netflix.
Well, kind of.
As its latest pluck from the YouTube farm league, Netflix has slated a spinoff of First We Feast‘s popular celebrity suffering/talk show. Called Hot Ones: Extra Heat, it’s specifically designed to tie into Netflix’s live events–an area the streamer has been pushing, both with IRL activations related to its IPs, with real-time programming like radio shows and daily podcasts, and with live sports.
Like the original, Extra Heat will be hosted by Sean Evans, and will still feature him grilling celebs while they choke down increasingly spicy chicken wings. The core difference is filming location.
“As a student of the late-night genre, I’m obsessed with the art of the interview and believe that these conversations warrant a level of scale and spectacle that sometimes can’t be contained by a studio,” Evans said in a statement. “It’s exciting to partner with Netflix to continue to break new ground with the format, while keeping the core of what fans love about Hot Ones firmly intact.”
“First We Feast has a decade-plus track record of delivering fresh interview formats and break-through moments with celebrities,” Chris Schonberger, Hot Ones‘ co-creator and First We Feast’s CEO, added. “It’s a thrill to continue to push the envelope with Netflix and bring the power of Hot Ones to some of the biggest, most culturally impactful moments on the service.”
Extra Heat’s first guests are Will Ferrell, Fortune Feimster, and Jimmy Tatro, all of whom star in Netflix’s upcoming golf comedy series The Hawk.
Episode #1 drops July 13, after the MLB‘s annual Home Run Derby. As you may have guessed, Netflix is the Derby’s official host for 2026, its first time in that position.
With YouTube as the unchallenged king of watch time in the U.S. (and, increasingly, around the world), Netflix has tapped talent like Salish Matter, Ms. Rachel, and Mark Rober in hopes of boosting its own viewership. With Hot Ones–which counts over 400 episodes and has earned multiple Emmy nominations–it’s taking things even further by clipping itself an exclusive branch of a top YouTube IP.
As always, we’re curious to see how the view counts and watch time shake out between YouTube and Netflix, but we doubt we’ll ever get to see that data. All we’ll have to go on is whether Netflix continues to invest in creator IPs…and perhaps whether it greenlights Extra Heat for more than two seasons.
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