Nine tests the waters with new micro-drama Flex

Nine has launched what it is claiming to be “Australia’s first micro-reality series” Flex, which will be released onto social media in a weekly stream of one-to-two-minute episodes.

Flex is a reality TV series that follows the lives of seven “young, good-looking strivers” trying to make it in Bondi.

The show is being pitched as “a social-first vertical series”, with episodes released weekly onto Instagram and Tiktok from April 24. However, unlike other popular microdramas, which exist only as snack-sized phone-friendly episodes, heavy on exposition and cliff hangers, the main game for Flex is 9Now, where 22-25 minute weekly episodes wrap the plot into something more resembling a traditional television show.

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