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Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterDigital-native media platform FaZe Clan is breaking into traditional TV formats with a three-year plan for both unscripted and scripted content, including a “Saturday Night Live”-style series for the Gen Z audience that will launch on livestream service Twitch in June, Variety has learned exclusively.Titled “unFaZed,” FaZe Clan describes the weekly show as “the first-ever variety franchise born out of internet culture,” that will feature a recurring ensemble cast of internet celebrities and be hosted by rotating special guests from that same world, while also regularly bringing in celebrities from the TV, film, music and sports industries.“unFaZed” is one of two inaugural formatted series set at the esports and online entertainment giant, a media platform that is rooted in gaming and youth culture and boasts a combined social following of over 500 million. The second show is the previously announced “Big Brother”-esque “FaZe1: The Warehouse,” a competition series that will livestream 24 hours a day for 15 days straight, which will debut on FaZe Clan’s Twitch channel May 5.

Former HBO Sports, NFL and GoPro Entertaiment exec Bill McCullough is set to share director duties on Thrive, a documentary on sport athletes' traumatic brain injuries from The Workshop Content Studios. The 90-minute film will feature athletes Koby Stevens, Sidney Crosby, Owen Wright and Kevin Pearce as they recount their rollercoaster experience after sustaining a traumatic brain injury (TBI) and the groundbreaking treatments that helped their brains heal.