Instinct • Style • Energy
The Vibes King
Smooth, magnetic, and all about the read. He sees chemistry before anyone can explain it and makes matches on gut alone: hard to teach, harder to replicate. Does it work? Put it on the board.
An Original Dating Reality Series
The Cupid
League
Shark Tank meets The Bachelor in America's next dating-show sensation.
Four larger-than-life dating experts. Four opposing philosophies. One season to prove who the true Cupid really is.
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01The Concept
Four matchmakers.
One dating pool.
Head-to-head in the name of love.
Four larger-than-life matchmakers with radically different beliefs about love compete to build the strongest relationships from the same pool of singles.
Each Cupid chooses pairings they believe belong together, then coaches and defends those relationships as they develop.
Making the match is only the beginning. To win the League, they have to prove their philosophy can produce something that actually lasts.
The Prize
Which Cupid's dating philosophy will prove it's worth?
By the end of the season we'll see which Cupid's matches went the distance to earn them the Cupid League crown and all the bragging rights.
02Who's Competing
Meet The League
The four Cupids are principal cast, not background experts. Each brings a distinct theory of compatibility and the confidence to defend it. Casting prioritizes expertise, following, personality, and marketability. Like the coaches on The Voice, the lineup can evolve each season while the League remains.
Cosmic Compatibility
The Astrologer
She sees patterns written in the stars. Signs, charts, timing, and cosmic compatibility guide her toward connections the others might never consider. The League finally gives astrology something every dating debate wants: results.
Trust The Science
The Psychologist
The grown-up in the room. A credentialed relationship psychologist using behavior, attachment, communication, and compatibility to argue that even in love, patterns matter.
Values • Tradition • Purpose
The Faith Guru
Modern, approachable, and grounded in one of the oldest playbooks in the game. He looks past the spark to values, character, family, and the life two people could actually build together.
Additional Cupid archetypes in development: a data-driven algorithmic matchmaker, an old-school no-nonsense traditionalist, a relationship coach, and other experts with clear, competing philosophies.
03How The League Works
Assess the singles, Draft their matches,
coach them to the finish line.
- 01
The Pool
Relationship-ready singles enter the League, separated by gender so they never meet a potential match on their own. Every romantic connection begins through a Cupid-created match.
- 02
The Cupids Make Their Picks
The Cupids interview the singles and make the pairings they genuinely believe in. A rotating selection order keeps overlapping picks fair and forces Cupids to adapt when another Cupid steals their pick.
- 03
The First Date
Every new pairing gets a real first date, with the Cupid who created it explaining the philosophy behind the match and coaching where useful.
- 04
Keep The Match or Return To The Pool
After the date, the couple individually chooses if they want to see the match through. If both choose Keep The Match, they commit to the relationship and become an official Active Match on that Cupid's roster. If either chooses Return To The Pool, the pairing ends.
Choice AKeep The MatchChoice BReturn To The Pool - 05
Join The Roster
Active Matches come off the ordinary dating board, unlock Couples Club, and become part of that Cupid's official roster.
- Off The BoardOther Cupids cannot normally select them.
- Couples ClubA separate area open only to actively matched couples, where they can keep spending time together and build the relationship.
- Cupid CoachingThe job is no longer just making the match. Now it has to succeed.
- 06
Breakups Change The Board
An Active Match can end naturally at any time. Before the matchmaking phase of the season ends, both people return to the Pool and become available again. Leaving a relationship does not guarantee another date: a contestant gives up something real for the possibility of something better.
Someone coming back on the board can change the entire League.
The PoolAvailable singles→
Active MatchA couple choosing to stay together and out of the draft pool→
Cupid RosterCoached all season
➹The Challenge Arrow
Four arrows. Four chances to shake things up.
Normally an Active Match can't be interfered with. But each Cupid gets one Challenge Arrow per season. If a rival Cupid is convinced someone is with the wrong person, they can spend their Arrow to test that theory and force a date with their more optimal pick.
The existing active match does not automatically dissolve. After the forced date, and only if the new connection is mutual, does the original match end and the new couple becomes a new "active match" on the other Cupid's roster.
04The Season
Six episodes to make the matches.
Followed by four to prove them.
Phase One
Episodes 1-6Matchmaking
The League begins wide open. The Cupids decide who belongs together while coaching the relationships they have already made. Early episodes carry more first dates. Later episodes lean into coaching, drama, breakups, and rematches.
The Matching Deadline
The board closes.
At the end of Episode 6, matchmaking ends. No new pairings, no returns. From here the show continues with only the actively matched couples as we follow their relationships back in the real world.
Phase Two
Episodes 7-9The Relationship Test
The question shifts from "Who should be together?" to "Were the Cupids actually right?"
The surviving couples go deeper through real dates, meaningful relationship milestones, compatibility tests, friends and family, future goals, and continued Cupid coaching. A breakup now ends that couple's run: there is no Pool left to return to.
Episode 10
The Finale
Which relationships made it? Which philosophies failed when the stakes got real? And which Cupid had the best read on love? The surviving couples face the future, the final standings are revealed, and one Cupid lifts the golden chalice.
Format Flexibility
Built to flex.
A lighter, self-contained episodic weekly version of The Cupid League has also been developed, built around the same four-Cupid engine. Additional format materials available.
05Why It Works
The best of two kinds of television.
The Experts Are The Stars
The Cupids do not disappear after the match. They coach, lose couples, defend their records, and build season-long rivalries.
Philosophies On Trial
Astrology or psychology? Instinct or data? Every relationship becomes evidence in an argument viewers are already having.
A Real Season Engine
Matches carry forward. Couples fail. A breakup in Episode 4 reshapes Episode 5. Viewers get invested in the relationships and the Cupids who built them.
Structured Without Feeling Rigged
The Cupids control who meets. The singles control whether they stay. Real structure, but the relationships succeed or fall apart on their own.
Real Feelings, Real Friction
Genuine relationships, with plenty of room for drama.
- Does a single stay in a match that's just okay, or risk it and go back in the Pool hoping for a better one?
- Does a Cupid let a rival coast with a happy couple, or spend their Arrow and force a date with the person they believe is the better match?
06Why Now
Endless options. Endless advice. Same old dating problems.
Singles have never had more options or more advice. Apps, TikTok, therapists, astrologers, algorithms, family, and tradition all give different answers about who to choose and why.
The Cupid League turns that noise into entertainment. Four confident experts stop giving advice in the abstract, choose real people, and the audience is rewarded with the results.
Advice is cheap. Results aren't.
A philosophy gets interesting when someone falls in love because of it, or when it blows up spectacularly.
07Comparables
In the company of proven formats.
The Voice
Colorful experts become franchise stars while building, coaching, and fighting for their own teams.
Shark Tank
Big personalities with competing points of view turn expertise itself into entertainment.
Love Is Blind
A serialized dating experiment where relationships carry across a season and viewers invest in the couples who survive the premise.
Married At First Sight
Expert-driven matchmaking proves audiences will follow relationships far beyond the moment two people are first put together.
The Bachelor
Romance, emotional stakes, first dates, and the enduring appetite for watching people take a real chance on love.
Target Audience
Who's watching.
- Demo
- 18-49, all genders
- Lifestyle
- Young professionals, socially active, dating-aware, media-savvy
- Interests
- Reality TV, romance, dating culture, competition, psychology, relationships
- Values
- Entertainment, emotional investment, relatability, insight, personality
08Behind The League
Why We Made This
I've spent years dating in Los Angeles, watching great friends make sense of the same exhausting cycle. The apps promise endless choice. The advice is even more endless.
Trust your gut. Trust the data. Check the stars. Ask your therapist. Ask your rabbi. Stop looking. Try harder.
The Cupid League came from one question: if everyone claims to know the secret to a great match, what happens when we make them prove it?
If everyone has an answer, let's put them in the same arena and find out who's right.
Dillan Cohen
Creator / Producer
Dillan Cohen is a Los Angeles-based writer, director, producer, and community builder. At NuRoots, he created programming for young adults and collaborated with more than a dozen nonprofit partners on events across Los Angeles. He later led Pilots Schmilots, an LA-based screenwriters community with 130+ members and monthly table reads.
His short film As Is Tradition was selected for the 2026 LA Shorts International Film Festival. He is a two-time Braid Literary Fellow, and his animated pilot Noah in Dreamworld was a semifinalist for the International Screenwriters' Association Fellowship. His sci-fi audio series Man in Space was distributed through Realm Media.
After years inside Los Angeles dating culture, The Cupid League brings together two things that have shaped much of Dillan's life: building communities and trying to understand how people connect.
Contact
Four Cupids, 28 singles,
a season to find out who really has the answers.
Full format deck and development materials available on request.
Dillan@DreamsAndWonder.com