Spin The Bottle is a Manhattan-based media company that creates original programming and content across multiple platforms, including TV, VOD, mobile and broadband sites. The company was founded in 1995 by Emmy winnerIMDb Tad Low and Woody Thompson. Four of the company's titles have reached #1 in the prime-time slot for their respective networks, including:
Pop-Up Video, the cultural phenomenon that debuted in 1996 on the then-flagging VH1,VH1 on Wikipedia later earning 13 Emmy nominations.IMDb The series continues to air in prime-time on VH1 Classic. Video IQ, the first triple-platform interactive game show in the U.S. (credited with tripling the Fuse network’s time slot ratings). Subway Q&A, which earned ten local Emmys for Cablevision’s Metro Channel. Pants-Off Dance-Off, which made both Blender and GQ magazines’ “Best of 2006” lists and became the most watched series in Fuse’s history. The series also premiered on Viacom’s VIVA in the UK in 2009 as part of its inaugural launch programming and premiered on Canada’s MuchMusic in 2010.
Spin The Bottle's more recent television series include Pet-O-Rama, Best Places Ever I’ve Ever Been, TXT MSG and Photo ID, which premiered in 2010 on Animal Planet,Animal Planet The Travel Channel,TV Guide MSG Network"Starr Report", New York Post, May 24, 2010 and FiOS, respectively.
Spin The Bottle also maintains the entertainment website spinthebottle.com. Original programs include The Truth About (a "Pop-Up Video"-style treatment of breaking news items), First Impressions (an interactive man-on-the-street game), The Baby Taddie Show (a travel series hosted by an opinionated puppet baby) and Spin The Bottle Live (a webcast house party / live music program).
The inventive and playfully subversive spirit of these programs has garnered considerable recognition for Low and his network. Legendary NBC programming chief Brandon Tartikoff told New York magazine that Tad was “one of the great original minds I have seen in my 20 years of television.”"Young, Gifted and a Jerk", New York Magazine, January 16, 1995 The New York Times has called him “an MTV-style Studs Terkel” while Entertainment Weekly crowned him one of “The 100 Most Creative People In Entertainment.”
Low is a former news correspondent and producer for MTV News, FOX, Good Morning America and CBS News. He graduated from Yale University, where he was a member of The Society of Orpheus & Bacchus.The Society of Orpheus & Bacchus Low continues to lecture frequently on media literacy."Tad Low '88 entertains at Master's Tea", Yale Daily News, October 1, 2002
Productions
Television series TitleYear(s)NetworkBest Places I've Ever Been2010Travel ChannelPants-Off Dance-Off2006-2007, 2009, 2010Fuse, Viva, MuchMusicPet-O-Rama2010Animal PlanetPhly1998WAMIPhly2000NickelodeonPhoto ID2009-2012FiOS1Pop-Up Video1996-2001VH1Pop-Up Quiz 1999VH1Pop-Up Video UK 1999-2001Channel 4TXT MSG2010MSG NetworkUPN Alt Games1998UPNVideo IQ2004-2005Fuse
Television specials TitleYear(s)NetworkNewsRadio: Our 50th Episode1998NBCThe Oprah Winfrey Show: Pop-Up Episodes1998SyndicatedTad's Pad1998USA NetworkPop-Up Brady2001Nick At NightWho Wants To Be A Millionaire: VH1's Pop-Up Celebrity Edition2000ABC
Digital series TitleYear(s)WebsiteMomtuition2012NickMomSesame Street Rewind2019Sesame StreetThe Truth About2011, 2014-2015AOL, PlayboyThe Truth About: Dailymotion Videostars2008DailymotionThe Truth About: Uncharted2014Weather.comThis Month In Playboy History2014 -2015PlayboyTV Junkies2006-2007TiVo, Dailymotion, Joost, TV Without PityView With A Room2013Scripps Networks Interactive
Motion picture and Television DVD Trivia Tracks TitleYear(s)StudioSpongeBob SquarePants Season 32005ViacomThe Truth About Showgirls2005MGM
References
External links spinthebottle.com