Barbershop returns as a series, and the comments ask where Ice Cube is

The first teaser for the 2027 show sets a February 10 opening, and its comment section filled in hours with memories of the films and of an earlier TV version.

Channel: Prime VideoStory of October 4, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 184,201 views a day, 10 times a normal first day on this channel (18,145).

Barbershop - Official Teaser | Prime Video

Calvin's shop is opening its doors again, this time as a television series. Prime Video posted the first teaser for "Barbershop" on Saturday, and twelve hours later it had passed 120,000 views. For a channel whose new clips usually finish their first day far below that, it is an unusually fast start.

The description stays in barber talk: fresh cuts on February 10, walk-ins welcome, with the series arriving in 2027. The tags reach back to where it all began. The 2002 film put Ice Cube behind the chair and Cedric the Entertainer beside him in a shop on Chicago's South Side. The tags also list Jermaine Fowler, Brett Gray and Travis Walker. Viewers clearly recognize Fowler, and several mention his part in Coming 2 America, another sequel to a beloved comedy.

The new show has a natural home on Prime Video. The original films were MGM releases, and Amazon bought MGM in 2022.

The comments came in faster than anything the channel's shorts usually see. Nearly 350 arrived in twelve hours, where a clip here typically gathers fewer than ten in a whole day. The most liked ones ask the same question: where is Ice Cube? Others point out that Barbershop has been on television before. Showtime ran Barbershop: The Series in 2005, with Omar Gooding taking over Calvin's shop. A few viewers want to know why the teaser bleeps its language.

The same weekend, a Hazbin Hotel short of Alastor posted for World Smile Day also ran well ahead of a usual first day. Under the Barbershop teaser, though, the talk stays in the shop, down to one viewer who thinks its storefront looks like the Willy Wonka of barbershops.

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The numbers

Barely half a day old, the teaser is running far ahead of how a new Prime Video clip usually starts, and its comment section is busier still.

the video's first day

usual first day here

18,145

this video

184,201

subscribers

9,800,000

▲ 20,000 in the last 7 days

total views

7,097,003,893

views per day

3,889,186

typical day: 5,670,537

the video

views

123,555

likes

2,739

comments

348

days online

1

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

Comedy Central

12,600,000

Still Watching Netflix

11,000,000

Prime Video

9,800,000

Rooster Teeth

8,940,000

Adult Swim

8,370,000

Kitchen Nightmares

7,250,000

As of October 4, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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