The Young Turks - Spin-off Series

Spin-off Series

• In February 2010, What the Flick?! began airing on the show's website, featuring movie reviews by Alonso Duralde, Ben Mankiewicz, and regular guests Matt Atchity of Rotten Tomatoes and Christy Lemire of the Associated Press. What The Flick?! is produced by Andrew Napier, Ana Kasparian, and Cenk Uygur, and directed by Andrew Napier.
• In June 2010, TYT helped launch thetopvlog on YouTube, a vlog channel featuring a variety of liberal political vloggers posted irregularly online.
• In September 2010, TYTSports was launched, featuring Cenk Uygur, Jayar Jackson, and Ben Mankiewicz. It is currently hosted by Rick Strom.
• In March 2011, TYTUniversity, a college-centered show was launched on YouTube. Originally hosted by Ana Kasparian and Jayar Jackson, John Iadarola joined in January 2012 and now co-hosts the show with Lisa Ferguson . This segment covers everything from college life to academics, and studying to relationship drama.
• In October 2011, twenTYTwelve, a spin-off show of The Young Turks was created to focus specifically on the upcoming 2012 elections. This show is hosted by Michael Shure and is designed to focus not only on the 2012 Presidential election, but rather various elections throughout the country.
• In December 2012, NerdAlert, a spin-off show of TYT University debuted to focus on news about technology, gaming and online geek culture. It is hosted by Kim Horcher.
• In September 2012, PopCultured was launched, hosted by Samantha Schacher. The show features a number of regular contributers including Bree Essrig, Brett Erlich and Jason Horton. The show seeks to provide some intelligent conversation on otherwise mindless news from Pop Culture.
• TYT Now, a TYT spinoff hosted by columnist Tina Dupuy and Tim Mihalsky, ran from May to August 2011.
• WMB, a spinoff hosted by Ben Mankiewicz, Michael Shure and Wes Clark Jr., ran from May to June 2011.
• The Point, a current affairs panel discussion series hosted by either a Young Turks host or more frequently a guest host such as Jimmy Dore, Greg Proops or John Fugelsang, began in November 2011. It also involves video submitted by bloggers and personalities.
• Reality Bites Back, a reality-television-focused review series hosted by Jacki Bray and Misty Kingma, ran from May to July 2011.
• The Undercurrent is a show hosted by Lauren Windsor, it features a broad variety of topics that were usually covered on the main show to get a little bit deeper into it, as well as interviews with politicians, media figures and opinion makers