TLC Speed-Dates with some Geek Love

Meet Ryan Glitch, matchmaker to the Star Wars kids.

Ryan Glitch has been organizing Sci-Fi Speed Dating for convention-goers for just over a year, but now the world will get to watch his results, with the TLC premiere of Geek Love. We asked Ryan about his con couplings.

GeekChicDaily: So how did the TV show come together?

Ryan Glitch: I never had any intentions of turning it into a TV show, but I got a phone call after our second time running it from a lady in L.A. who left me a very to-the-point email...Very serious sounding. I called back and she just went off with all these things she knew about me, everything she's heard, and finally she gets around to the speed-dating and goes, "Long story short, I wanna turn it into a TV show." I started laughing hysterically in my head - I thought it was a joke. Like one of my friends put somebody up to this just to make fun of me.

GCD: So presumably you film the actual speed-dating sessions, but what else can we expect to see on the show?

RG: You actually will see very little of the sessions. Without giving too much away, the show's not directly aimed at following me and my company; it's kind of indirect. They choose convention-goers, follow them through the sessions and then they see whether or not they end up with a date and how that date goes.

Geek Love back-to-back specials premiere Dec. 18th at 9 p.m. and then 9:30 p.m. on TLC. Read our full interview with Ryan Glitch to prepare!

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