Guy “Dr Disrespect” Beahm has always put a ridiculous amount of production work into his streams. From cutaways to fake car chases, to mid-match music videos, the Dr Disrespect persona Beahm has created is all about putting on a show for viewers. But, now that Beahm has signed a deal with Skybound Entertainment, the production company co-founded by The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman, he’s got the potential to take that showmanship to television.
As part of this new deal, which was initially announced by The Hollywood Reporter, Beahm and Skybound will develop a scripted narrative television series based on the Dr Disrespect character. The series would focus on “how the doctor became the doctor,” a sort of origin story for Beahm’s Twitch persona.
Beahm said to the Hollywood Reporter that the show is “pretty early in terms of creative and the direction we want to take it,” but he also noted that there have been, “some early discussions around animation.”
Before he started streaming, Beahm worked at Sledgehammer games as the community manager and later as a level designer for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. In 2015, Beahm left Sledgehammer to stream full time. His Dr Disrespect stream persona blew up around the launch of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds in 2017. While he has enjoyed phenomenal success since then, Beahm has been at the center of several controversies over the last couple of years.
In late 2017, Beahm admitted publicly to having an extramarital affair. After this Beahm took a brief break from streaming, before returning to a record-setting number of viewers. Beahm once again faced scrutiny during this year’s E3 Video Game show when, during his first IRL stream ever, he brought his still-rolling cameras into the convention center bathroom — a crime in the state of California. This stream resulted in a short ban for his streaming channel on Twitch.
Beahm isn’t the only streamer to take their persona to a medium beyond gaming though. Tyler “Ninja” Blevins has marketed his on-stream personality far beyond the world of Fortnite, and earlier this year released a narrative comic book. Something along those lines doesn’t seem outside the realm of possibility for Beahm either, as Skybound does work in comics as well.
For now, with Beahm’s Skybound show still in the early days of production, Beahm says that his focus will remain on streaming. While many content creators have moved to platforms such as YouTube, Mixer, or Facebook Gaming, Beahm will continue his stream on Twitch as he has for the last several years.
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So you get reprimanded for filming people in a public restroom, and then be given a television show. Makes sense.
By SweetTerror on 12.06.19 1:16pm
I don’t "twitch" so I have no opinion of the guy one way or the other, but I do chuckle at all the faux outrage on this dude. You could see the clothed backs of some dudes at a urinal…whoopty dooo. The state/city didn’t fine him, Twitch banned him for a week or two. I’m fine with that, because it’s Twitch’s platform, and ultimately the local government obviously decided it wasn’t worthy of going after.
By Porcupine-Tree on 12.06.19 2:54pm
It’s a massive invasion of privacy you fucking dipshit
By Gnome de Plume on 12.06.19 6:58pm
You got to be angry and call somebody name on the Internet. How does it feel? Really good? Get your endorphin rush for the day buddy? Get the say something on the Internet to somebody that you would never do in real life? Congratulations.
By JOhn1010 on 12.07.19 6:08pm
Oh, but cancel culture is destroying us!
By ThymeBandit on 12.06.19 4:33pm
I imagine it’ll be some kind of trashy reality TV, so it does make sense.
By AmiralPatate on 12.07.19 5:36pm
You mean Dr. Pissrespect right?
By bkr8712 on 12.06.19 1:23pm
I don’t know if I dislike the guy or his fake personality more.
By ObjectNull on 12.06.19 1:40pm
Yes.
By ThymeBandit on 12.06.19 4:32pm
No.
By Xitel on 12.06.19 1:43pm
It’s okay guys, he’ll screw this up before it ever reaches the screen and we’ll get to laugh about it like we do his flagrant disregard for local laws that should’ve seen him in court and fined heavily and/or permanently banned from Twitch and streaming in general.
By Luciferous on 12.06.19 2:16pm
So the moral of the story is … be a jerk to people as a fake persona, be a jerk in real and cheat on your wife, be a jerk in real life and live stream in a bath with the "potential" of exposing people in a private setting, get banned from a platform for a week, come back with more followers, more money and get a TV show.
TL:DR, just be a jerk and everything will come your way. That’s a great message.
By MilkyWhiteTooth on 12.06.19 4:02pm
All media have those kinds of persona. They eventually fade in to obscurity as society moves on.
Stern who?
By Axel Aodh on 12.06.19 7:20pm
Howard Stern makes hundreds of millions of dollars broadcasting for Sirius radio and recently had people such as former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on his show. He literally has every single celebrity and media personality lining up to come in his Studio. So not a very good example.
By JOhn1010 on 12.07.19 6:10pm
His audience hasn’t really grown. The younger generation is completely ignorant of him. Only old people who still listen to the radio think he’s relevant.
By Axel Aodh on 12.08.19 12:46pm
Gross.
By Axel Aodh on 12.06.19 7:17pm
I’m interested in seeing how this goes. Mostly because I think the character he plays is great, but he has no foil to work that character against, unless they go the Jackass route and turn him into the butt of all the jokes.
Like, his character would fit perfectly in a Pure Pwnage setting as an antagonist, but by himself he’s just not super great, since the heel needs to be the foil for the face.
By Dr. Panda on 12.06.19 8:11pm