‘Weight To Date’ Series Set At Netflix; Marks IPC’s First Sale Since Founders Left Sony Pictures TV

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is exploring the world of dating following extreme weight loss in its latest non-scripted order.

Deadline understands the streamer has greenlit from The Intellectual Property Corporation (IPC).

The deal came only a few weeks after Eli Holzman and Aaron Saidman, who are now co-CEOs of the company, exited Sony Pictures Television, where they were President and Co-President of the studio’s nonfiction arm. It marks the pair’s first sale since going independent.

Weight To Date is a “dating format that follows singles during and after extreme weight loss as they navigate dating, identity, and the search for lasting love”.

The project is more in the soft format space, more akin to Indian Matchmaking, the IPC-produced series that ran for three seasons on Netflix, which followed Sima Taparia, a marriage consultant from Mumbai.

It is essentially a docu-format, which will follow around ten to twelve people, some of whom have lost an extraordinary amount of weight and after re-examining their own identity are looking for love and are back on the dating scene. In that regard, it has similarities to Love on the Spectrum, the Netflix series that has won seven Emmys, including the award for Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program, twice.

The topic is clearly in the zeitgeist and has been explored across a number of TikTok videos, particularly relevant since the growth of GLP1s.

Holzman and Saidman exec produce the series alongside Jeanne Begley.

It also marks the latest non-scripted series for Netflix, which has been on something on a buying spree lately. Deadline broke the news of The Leftovers, from Jersey Shore producer SallyAnn Salsano, which follows a group of friends from the Garden State, and Arizona Hot, from Banijay’s Brightspot Content, which follows friends from the Grand Canyon State.