Ever ask yourself what's on channel 23? Ask no more: channel 23 is actually home to our very own Tufts cable TV station, TUTV.
The TUTV studio is located upstairs in Curtis Hall above Brown and Brew. Here shows are editing and there is an on-air studio.
Filmed here is "Jumbo Love Match," a 13-year Tufts tradition and perennial favorite. This dating show is funny and a little rowdy. A racy take on the dating shows of the '60s, "Jumbo Love Match" features your classmates making fools of themselves (and each other) all in the name of romance. Another returning show is "Haters," a satirical look at campus life started by three students last year.
The unquestioned star of the TUTV lineup is "Anything Eni" - the "Seinfeld"-like comedy which follows the college adventures of Albanian-student Eni Cani. The show was one of 26 pilots selected for the New York Television Festival. Creators Neil Padover, Dan Patack and Eni Cani - all juniors - went to New York for the first weekend of October to join in the festival activities.
The creators of "Anything Eni" will be invited back next year to talk about their experience of producing a television show. They will be informed via e-mail on the results of the festival. The boys have already written the show's third episode.
"We will be doing another episode for next semester and one huge one for senior year," Cani said.
TUTV also has new shows lined up for this semester. "Ghetto Gourmet" is a cooking show, created by seniors Julia Wolfson, Cathy Lu and Yeu Jin Yoon, where chefs prepare food from what students already have in their suites and apartments. Participants receive prizes for the best concoctions.
Another new show is "What Would Haze Do?," a continuation of a project freshman Chris Hazenbush began in high school. The premise of the show is to portray how Haze reacts to certain everyday (and extraordinary) situations. In high school, Hazenbush made episodes that poked fun at school bathrooms, a rowdy Spanish class and hitting a pedestrian with his car.
At Tufts, Hazenbush's first episode is about a freshman forced triple. It shows the difficulties of sleeping and relaxing when Haze doesn't even have room to push back his desk chair. Some of his ideas for the future include organizing a campus-wide laser tag game and finding his drunken roommate passed out.
The filming is already underway for some shows; an episode of "Jumbo Love Match" was taped last week and will air within the next month.
TUTV also airs feature films, films for social change and on-campus events.
