Milo Ventimiglia On The Digital Relevance Of StyleHaul’s New Go90 Relationship Series

By 01/07/2016
Milo Ventimiglia On The Digital Relevance Of StyleHaul’s New Go90 Relationship Series

A month ago, StyleHaul inked a deal with Verizon’s go90 mobile video service to produce exclusive content. Now, the female-centric lifestyle and beauty network has revealed the first project to come out of that pact, a dramedy series called Relationship Status.

Relationship Status follows several, year-long intertwining stories of NYC and LA-based millennials as they deal with the ups and downs of friendship and love in a world driven by social media. Written by Céline Geiger (The Lying Game), Relationship Status hails from executive producers James Frey through his Full Fathom Five banner and Milo Ventimiglia (of Heroes and Crackle’s Chosen fame), under his Divide Pictures production house. Full Fathom Five’s Todd Cohen and Divide’s Russ Cundiff will also executive produce, while Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum (Mistresses) directs.

One of the most impressive aspects of Relationship Status, though, is its large ensemble cast. The StyleHaul series stars more than 30 different actors and actresses, including Shawn Ashmore (X-Men: Days of Future Past), Emma Bell (The Walking Dead), and Brant Daugherty (Pretty Little Liars). Ventimiglia, who also stars in Relationship Status, told Tubefilter that working with such a large group of acting talent was “truly inspiring.”

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“We were able to tell Céline’s story through a very talented and dynamic cast,” Ventimiglia said, noting everyone brought unique personalities to the show. “The script also mimics real life in the sense of how we find love today may not follow a traditional path and an ensemble cast allowed us to portray so many diverse stories.”

The 12-episode Relationship Status heavily addresses the theme of online dating, which Ventimiglia said makes the series well-suited not only for release on go90’s platform but also for digital fan interaction and social media word-of-mouth. “For me, the creative scope of a project is always the biggest draw,” the Heroes actor explained. “During my first read I felt Céline might’ve been looking over my shoulder in life as the events in the story somehow mimicked conversations I’d had with friends. It’s incredibly current and relative to a wide group of people trying to have positive relationships in the new era of dating in the digital age.”

“The effect the digital era has had on all of our relationships — how it conveniences them, complicates them, confuses them — is something I’ve wanted to explore through story for some time, taking full advantage of the very tools the story examines to tell the tale,” added Frey, in a release. “I couldn’t ask for better partners in doing so than StyleHaul and go90,and am humbled by the creative team we’ve assembled both in front of and behind the screen.”

All Relationship Status will be available on go90 sometime in the spring of 2016. You can download Verizon’s mobile video app via the iTunes App Store or Google Play.

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