
Tristan Couvares could become a new media darling… or America’s biggest fool.
The 25-year-old former UConn student, now living in Los Angeles, is the subject of “Control TV,” a new Web reality series from “Robot Chicken” producers Seth Green and Matt Senreich.
“Control TV,” which launches Wednesday, is billing itself as a “a real life `Truman Show.’” Like the Jim Carrey movie, Couvares will have cameras following him all day long, while viewers on the Web vote to make Couvares’ decisions.
Green told the AP that “Total Control” is “part entertainment and part vicarious improvement of another human being.”
“We’re going to guide it so that none of the decisions are really detrimental to him. It could be as simple as putting him in funny clothes when he goes to a job interview or insisting that he has a hidden agenda when he speaks to a girl for the first time, or whether he’s going to eat oatmeal or an English muffin to start his day.”
Viewers, who can follow at http://controlTV.com and sign up for cellphone alerts, will get the opportunity to decide things for Couvares approximately 10-15 times a day. Voting will be for multiple choice options — A, B or C — which means Couvares won’t be forced to do anything the show’s producers haven’t already prepared.
Couvares sounded non-chalent in a Boston Globe interview:
My biggest trepidation? I don’t think I have one particular fear. I’d like to try not to cry on camera. . . . There’s anxiety about exposing yourself. Day-to-day life. When you go home, whatever you do in front of the mirror before you go to bed, pick your nose.
At first I’ll probably be conscious [of the cameras] but eventually that’s going to slide away and then I’m going to fall back to my habits of the last 25 years.’’










