Seth Green promises his new Web series “Control TV” isn’t a Dr. Evil kind of thing.
“Control TV,” which launches Wednesday, is a new reality Web series that is billing itself as a “a real life `Truman Show.'” Like the Jim Carrey movie, Tristan Couvares will have cameras following him all day long, but with “Control TV,” viewers on the Web vote to make Couvares’ decisions.
It may sound slightly dystopic, but Green, who is producing the show with Matthew Senreich, says “Control TV” is “part entertainment and part vicarious improvement of another human being.”
“It’s not Gerard Butler in `Gamer,’ it’s not `The Running Man,'” Green says, referring to two films where lives are sacrificed for entertainment. “We’re doing something a little less malicious than that.”
Instead, Green sees the show as a chance for an uncertain, 25-year-old man to be propelled by the Web-watching masses. In his view, the Internet can be a benevolent god.
“We’re going to guide it so that none of the decisions are really detrimental to him,” says Green. “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 cell phone 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.
“Based on what his life starts to become, we’re going to have to adapt as producers,” says Senreich, who co-created the Adult Swim animated series “Robot…