US Asian-American cablenet Myx TV has ordered a reality travelogue series featuring a tech millionaire who sold his business to Snapchat for US$54m in 2014.
The first season of Discovering Routes will be made up of eight 22-minute broadcast episodes and 20 eight-minute webisodes.
It will follow tech millionaire Garrett Gee and his sister Miristi as they travel to the Philippines, the land of their ancestry, for the first time.
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Asian American-targeted cable net Myx TV has marked mid-September for the premiere of its reality travelogue series Discovering Routes.
Produced by ABS-CBN Global Studios in association with Go Button Media, the 8 x 22-minute program will follow “The Bucket List Family” blogger Garrett Gee (pictured, right) and his sister Miristi Gee (left) as they travel to the Philippines to explore their heritage.
The series will follow the Gee siblings to the sovereign island nation to experience local Filipino traditions and exotic tropical locales, including swimming in the Calamian Islands, harvesting rice in the Chocolate Hills of Bohol, and crafting guitars at the Alegre Guitar Factory on Cebu Island.
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Produced by Go Button Media, Mom vs. Matchmaker pits professional matchmaker Carmelia Ray against opinionated mothers in a competition to see who can find the best match for the mom’s single children.
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Matchmaker Carmelia Ray goes head to head with feisty moms to find a winning match for their child. Mom vs Matchmaker premieres March 14 at 8 p.m. ET/PT and is produced by Daniel Oron and Natasha Ryan for Go Button Media and Miguel Santos for Myx TV.
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Mom vs. Matchmaker is a series focused on finding the perfect match for millennials. Matchmaking professional Carmelia Ray challenges the mothers of the contestants in finding a suitable date for their kid. Each will set up a date in the hopes that their pick will be chosen. The singles find out at the end of the episode who prepared which date.
On the season two premiere, music producer Justin is ready for love. He prefers a creative, big-eyed girl with a “booty.” His mother claims he wants someone who resembles her. In the episode, his mom tries to find a nice girl who loves cooking, while Ray also looks for his perfect match.
Mom vs. Matchmaker is produced by Daniel Oron and Natasha Ryan for Go Button Media and Miguel Santos for Myx TV.
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Post-production is underway on Toronto-based Go Button Media’s first commissioned project, Mom Vs. Matchmaker, an unscripted series backed by a dating service brand partner the producers hope will be ripe for co-viewing.
The first season of the series includes six, half-hour episodes that will bow on U.S. channel Myx TV on May 3. Mom Vs. Matchmaker has also been picked up by Toronto-based Stornoway Communications, which operates digital specialty networks ichannel and The Pet Network, although an air date for the series in Canada has not yet been set. Myx TV, an Asian-American entertainment-focused channel carried by Comcast, Time Warner and DIRECTTV, is the commissioning broadcaster on the series. The series is executive produced by Go Button Media’s Daniel Oron, Natasha Ryan and Miguel Santos, general manager of Myx TV.
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