Netflix Casts 'Weight to Date' Singles After Weight Loss
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- Netflix is casting singles over 18 for a new dating docuseries with the working title "Weight to Date," focusing on contestants who have undergone major body transformations and are re-entering the dating world.
- The Intellectual Property Corporation (IPC) is producing the series, with Eli Holzman, Aaron Saidman and Jeanne Begley serving as executive producers.
- "Weight to Date" is positioned as a docuseries rather than a high-concept dating format, placing it closer in style to Netflix's "Love on the Spectrum" than to "Love Is Blind."
- Netflix's press release for the show did not mention GLP-1 medications, though the context of extreme weight loss has grown more relevant amid the popularization of drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy.
- "Weight to Date" will join Netflix's unscripted dating slate, which already includes "Age of Attraction," "Love Is Blind," "Temptation Island," "Love on the Spectrum" and "Too Hot to Handle."
Why it matters: Netflix is expanding its unscripted dating franchise into a niche that dovetails with the cultural moment around GLP-1-driven weight loss, giving the streamer a docuseries-format entry that targets the same emotional terrain as "Love on the Spectrum" while sidestepping the more sensational "Love Is Blind" style. The deliberate omission of GLP-1 drugs from Netflix's press materials leaves the show's framing of weight loss — medical, surgical, or lifestyle — open to definition by the contestants themselves.
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