Now What with Ryan Duffy

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Now What with Ryan Duffy is an online docuseries fronted by former Vice correspondent Ryan Duffy, focused on global problems and their innovative solutions;{{cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/ryan-duffy/now-what-the-worlds-biggest-problems_b_8306036.html|title=Now What: The World's Biggest Problems, Humanity's Most Creative Solutions|date=15 October 2015|work=The Huffington Post}} the show premiered online on 15 October 2015, with an initial run of 10 episodes.{{cite web|url=https://www.thewrap.com/new-huffpost-series-now-what-with-ryan-duffy-explores-illegal-gold-mining-in-amazon-rainforest-exclusive-video/|title=New HuffPost Series 'Now What With Ryan Duffy' Explores Illegal Gold Mining in Amazon Rainforest (Exclusive Video)|author=Joe Otterson|date=14 October 2015|work=TheWrap}}{{cite web|url=https://www.yahoo.com/tv/s/huffpost-series-now-ryan-duffy-explores-illegal-gold-230736187.html|title=New HuffPost Series 'Now What With Ryan Duffy' Explores Illegal Gold Mining in Amazon Rainforest (Exclusive Video)|date=14 October 2015|publisher=Yahoo.com}}

The show was one of a slate of 12 new shows added by The Huffington Post in 2015 as part of their strategy of video expansion under AOL New Front; site founder Arianna Huffington cited the riots in Baltimore following the death of Freddie Gray as an example of the kinds of solution-based situations Duffy's program would address, criticizing existing coverage as creating "copycat crimes instead of copycat solutions."{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/newfronts-arianna-huffington-explains-why-792206|title=NewFronts: Arianna Huffington Explains Why Video Strategy Is Key for HuffPost|author=Natalie Jarvey|date=28 April 2015|work=The Hollywood Reporter}} Duffy describes the show as having a two-act structure, first exploring a global problem, then a second act exploring the solution and a character-driven depiction of the people working on the solution.{{cite web|url=http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/media/2015/10/8579954/60-second-interview-ryan-duffy-former-vice-correspondent-and-host-now-|title=The 60-second interview: Ryan Duffy, former Vice correspondent and host of 'Now What with Ryan Duffy' at the Huffington Post|publisher=Capital New York}}

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  • {{cite web|url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/news/now-what-host-ryan-duffy-live/vi-BBndE2i|title='Now What' Host Ryan Duffy LIVE|publisher=MSN.com}}
  • {{cite web|url=http://www.aol.co.uk/video/ryan-duffy-on--now-what-with-ryan-duffy--519265640|title= Ryan Duffy On Now What with Ryan Duff|author=AOL|work=AOL.co.uk}}

Category:Documentary web series

Category:Documentary television series about science

Category:2015 web series debuts

Category:HuffPost

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