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“Catfish: The TV Show” Producer seeks UTA Applicant By Bree Binder between human interactions where “catfish” in society are people who always keep you on your toes and always keep you guessing. I was approached by Mark Pomerville, a casting producer for the show, because he is looking for an applicant from UT-Arlington because the show is getting so many applications from Texas. Pomerville started working for “Catfish” by working for Long Pond Media, and had worked on a few other shows that had to do with unscripted television. He says, “We are hoping to feature a variety of stories this season.”
Our story begins with a documentary that got so much attention, MTV decided to make a show about it. The documentary was about a guy named Nev, the host of the show, who got in an online relationship with a girl via Facebook.
using this fake profile as a way to escape her challenging home life. The two still remain friends since this discovery and still talk regularly. After the documentary was published, people started emailing in and explaining their concerns about their own relationships, which is where the show starts.
Through searching the Internet, he realized that there was another profile with the same information on it and decided to pay her a visit. The woman he met turned out to be a fake profile and was really an older woman with a family. She was
The show got its name “Catfish” during the documentary. The woman’s husband references how when you transport fish, you put catfish in with them so that the good fish stay active and keep their muscles working. He makes the connection
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Pomerville says that if he could break one misconception that the show portrays that it would be that “not everyone who is using a fake identity is a bad person. In fact many of them are really good people who have made a bad choice and are now living the results of that and don’t know how to get out or where they should go from here.” He added: “A lot of times society labels these people as weirdos, or people who could never live or function in the real world, and in reality that is not true. It is usually just people who are very self-conscious, overweight, gay or just socially awkward. Once they’ve gone through the Catfish program, it is usually really liberating for them.”