Charm City Has Plenty of Charm. Now It Gets a Dating Show.

Baltimore's South Asian community is built on medicine and research, and Johns Hopkins is the gravitational center. The medical campus, the research labs, the public health school. Indian and South Asian grad students and postdocs cycle through Hopkins every year, and a significant number of them stay. Columbia and Ellicott City in Howard County have the established families. Owings Mills and the northwest suburbs add to the mix.

The format from New York: real contestants go on live dates on stage while the room watches and reacts. Afterward, the whole crowd mingles. It's the event that single South Asian professionals have been wishing existed in their city. Baltimore's medical and research community provides a unique audience: highly educated, culturally connected, and too busy to optimize dating profiles.

The tricky thing about Baltimore is its proximity to DC. The desi singles in this area often get lumped into the DC metro, but Baltimore is its own city with its own community and its own identity. Fells Point, Federal Hill, Mount Vernon. The people who live here chose Baltimore, and they shouldn't have to drive to Tysons or take the MARC train to find a room full of South Asian singles.

The medical and research community here provides a unique demographic: highly educated, culturally connected, and too busy saving lives to optimize their Hinge profiles. We're looking at Baltimore for a future show. Get on the waitlist for first access, or apply to be a contestant. Charm City has plenty of charm. Let's put it to use.