Hey, New york! what are you doing tonight?
These bachelors and bachelorettes will be looking for their matches at bars and restaurants in NYC. Could it be you?
WHEN beautiful, successful Manhattan dermatologist Tabasum Mir told her friends and family she was going on a dating show, they were perplexed. “My friends keep asking me, ‘Well, did it work? Are you dating anyone? Are you engaged?’ ” the 34-year-old tells The Post.
But while the series debuts Aug. 12, Mir has yet to go on a single date.
Bravo’s “The Singles Project” is the first reality show of its kind. Mir and five other bachelors and bachelorettes will be dating in nearly real time. Their pool of potential suitors? The fine citizens of New York City.
We’ll see the daters out on the town, getting set up with New Yorkers who apply via social media and, if the mood should strike, maybe even locking lips with one another.
The show will film in bars and restaurants across the city from Wednesday through Saturday, then air just three days later, Tuesday nights at 10, explains Shari Levine, Bravo’s senior vice president of current production and original programming.
“I’m gasping for breath even as I think about it,” Levine says. “It’s really hard! It’s really fast; it moves quickly; you have to shoot it quickly; you edit it lightning fast. This is not about finessing every moment. It’s much more raw.”
The other wild card? Social media. The daters will interact with viewers via Twitter — taking suggestions for date locales, love advice and anything else that gets thrown their way. So, if you think two castmates would be totally adorable together and just have to try Narcissa for dinner, they might actually take your advice.
And if you’re a New Yorker who thinks you’re the perfect match for Mir or one of her castmates, you can throw your hat in the ring by tweeting @ singles_project.
Cast member Brian Trunzo, for one, is hoping the series will help get him out of his comfort zone — specifically, the social scene below 14th Street, where his Soho menswear store, Carson Street Clothiers, is located.
“My professional life has more or less become my social life,” the 29-year-old says. “I’ve talked to friends about how nice it would be to meet someone in the city whose friends I don’t know at all. It’s nice to know that maybe this [show] will bring me to someone who I have absolutely no tangential relationship to.”