For ‘Documentary Now!’ Creators, There’s No Such Thing as Too Niche: ‘We Always Make Them Knowing It Will Be Someone’s Favorite’ (Video)

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too niche for the network?“IFC has been an incredible partner, and for real I can’t believe that they let us keeping making it,” Meyers said with a laugh. “With that said, I think it’s very fair that they didn’t jump through the roof with excitement when we said we were doing Agnes Varda.”“It was a bit of a slower push up the hill,” added Rhys Thomas, who with Buono directs most of the episodes. “But I always felt like if we can figure out a confident take on this, that they’ll be behind us, which is a rare position to be in to know that they’re very permissive ultimately.”And Season 4 isn’t without its recognizable documentaries.

A standout episode is a take on the Oscar-winning Netflix documentary “My Octopus Teacher” called “My Monkey Grifter,” starring Jamie Demetriou (“The Afterparty”) as a filmmaker who forms a deep emotional bond with a monkey.“The most difficult part of the whole process is always just coming up with what the five or six documentaries we’re going to do are, because they have to both inspire an idea and also not bump up against previous episodes,” Meyers said. “And so I think Alex and Rhys recognize that this was a unique case where it was a movie that I feel like, because it was on Netflix, so many people saw, it was that rare case of a documentary people were talking about.

So when that came up, we realized it would be fun to do one where people would know the source material since one of the other ones is about a BBC documentary that’s only available on YouTube (laughs).”Armisen appears in “My Monkey Grifter” in a memorable role and has been a consistent onscreen presence throughout the show’s run (Bill Hader co-starred in the first couple of seasons, and remains an EP and writer, but his.