| U8TV: The Lofters | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Reality |
| Created by | Zev Shalev |
| Starring | Season One: Mathieu Chantelois Arisa Cox Valéry Gagné Kalen Haymen Jennifer Hedger David Keystone Sandy Medeiros Trevor "Tre" Smith Season Two: Heather Basciano Danny Crowder Dan Fraleigh Annie Guillo Carolyn Jarvis Donnie "Chico" Ruiz Jason Ruta Tonya Thongs |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Zev Shalev |
| Original release | |
| Network | Life Network U8TV.com |
| Release | 2001 – 2002 |
| Related | |
| So Gay TV | |
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U8TV: The Lofters is a Canadian reality television series, which aired on the Life Network and online on the internet television channel U8TV.com, in 2001 and 2002. It was created by Zev Shalev, Lili Shalev-Shawn and Fiorella Grossi, its co-founders and executive producers.[1] The show followed the lives of eight Canadians in their 20s who lived together in a Toronto loft for a one-year period, while at the same time producing and hosting their own television programs for Life Network or other cable TV networks, and for the website U8TV.com.[2]
It followed up on a project that Shalev had spearheaded during his time as producer of Canada AM in the 1990s, in which a man and a woman were confined to a loft for one week to test how well they would get by with only a credit card and the Internet for contact with the outside world.[3]