Tad Low

Tad Low

Tad Low (born September 26, 1966) is an Emmy-winning creator and producer of television shows, including both the innovative and irreverent "Pop-Up Video" and "Pants-Off Dance-Off". He currently helms Spin The Bottle, a multimedia content company based in New York City and is also head of the Spin The Bottle Network, a video-on-demand channel carried by Comcast and Cox cable systems. Low’s work has been noted in the press for its ironic sensibility, and his shows simultaneously critique and celebrate popular culture in all of its banal and sublime incarnations.Dewan, Shaila. "TV's Bad Boy, Underground and Underfoot" "The New York Times", September 8, 2000] [Sanders, Adrienne. "Wise Guys" "Forbes", December 14, 1998,] [Jacobs, A.J. "Pop-Up Culture" "Entertainment Weekly", December 19, 1997] The paradoxical nature of Low's aesthetic was articulated by "New York" magazine when it dubbed "Pants-Off Dance-Off" both "brilliant and lowbrow." ["New York Magazine", "The Approval Matrix" May 29, 2006, p. 74]

Personal history

Low was born and raised in Connecticut and graduated from Yale University. [Rosman, Katherine. "Pop Goes the Revolution" Brill's Content, May 1999.] He made his first television appearance with a rubber chicken on “Marlo and the Magic Movie Machine” in the sixth grade. He has subsequently hosted and appeared on various television shows for MTV, VH1, CBS, NBC, and Fox. [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0522845/]

"Pop-Up" was nominated for ten Emmys in 1996, and in 2000 Low won a New York Emmy as host and producer of "Subway Q&A", a show that he co-created for the Metro Channel.

Low currently lives in New York City.

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Pop-Up Video. Pop-Up first aired on VH1 in October 1996. [Greist, Stephanie Eliando. "Firing on Music Videos With a Satiric Pop Gun" "New York Times", August 6, 1997.] It inserted bubbles containing trivia and snarky behind-the-scenes commentary into existing music videos. The show spawned numerous imitators and earned ten Emmy nominations. Low's inspiration for the show came from hearing a stylist friend's tales of mistreatment at the hands of a famous female pop star. As Low claims in an interview for a Canadian newspaper, "I'd be watching (this singer) being wonderful and fabulous in all these cheesy videos, while at the same time I was hearing one horrible story after another of the acts of human degradation committed by this woman." [Salem, Rob. "Long live the Pop-Up revolution" "Toronto Star", May 21, 2000.] Low's fascination with this incongruity eventually culminated in the creation of Pop-Up Video.

Video IQ. Video IQ debuted on the Fuse network in November 2004. One of the first interactive game shows, Video IQ gave viewers the chance to win prizes by deciphering and text-messaging the answers to rebus-style puzzles embedded in the images and lyrics of music videos. Video IQ was similar in temperament to the wry and biting Pop-Up Video. In one show, for example, the clue "Semi-retired blond pop tart" yielded the answer Britney Spears. [ Karif, Olga "The New Game Machine: Your TV" "Business Week Online", March 1, 2005.]

Subway Q&A. Low hosted and co-created this show on the Metro Channel along with Ronald Fried. Debuting in 2000, this show featured Low, along with a camera crew, coaxing subway commuters into disrupting their daily routines by, for example, holding an impromptu trial in a subway car in which riders were asked to be the jury, persuading subway passengers to try on a stranger's hat, and convincing a woman he had never met before to join him for a catered dinner on the subway platform in the middle of rush hour. Cajoling ordinary New York City subway commuters into exploring their inner performers, Subway Q&A reflected Low's desire, in the words of a "New York Times" reporter, to "elevate real people to celebrity."Low was awarded a New York Emmy as host and producer of Subway Q&A in 2000.

Pants-Off Dance-Off. Low is the creator and executive producer of PODO, which debuted on the Fuse network on April 18, 2006. The highest-rated show in the Fuse network’s history, [Associated Press. 'Pants-Off Dance-Off Enjoys a Popular Streak' August 14, 2006. [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14219060/ msnbc.com] ] PODO combines elements of a dance contest with a striptease. Each episode features five amateur contestants (aka “pancers”) who disrobe while dancing in front of a screen playing their favorite music videos. The show also contains an interactive element, as home viewers have the opportunity to vote for contestants in categories such as “funniest,” “most disturbing” and “best dancer” on the show's website. [ [http://fuse.tv/tv/pantsoff/index.php official website] ] According to the New York Times television critic David Itzkoff, PODO not only helped garner media attention and public exposure for the Fuse network (no pun intended), but also promoted an ethos similar to the all-encompassing philosophy of Subway Q&A: “In contrast to the unattainable standards of perfections promoted by celebrity television, ‘Pants-Off Dance-Off’ is meant to be an inclusive experience, one that has already welcomed competitors as diverse as a 58-year-old retired schoolteacher and a woman in a unicorn mask.” [Itzkoff, David. "On Fuse's 'Pants-Off Dance-Off,'Amateurs Dance and Disrobe" "New York Times",July 16, 2006.]

References

External links

* [http://www.spinthebottle.com Spin The Bottle]


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