Happy Valley, Meet Your Next Blind Date

Penn State has one of the largest Indian student populations of any university in the country, and State College is essentially an island built around it. If you're desi and you're here, your social world is the university. Your dating world is also the university. And the apps cycle through the same people in about two weeks.

The show format from New York works perfectly in college towns: real contestants go on dates in front of a live audience, the room reacts, and afterward everyone mingles. In State College, where the dating pool is intense but small, this adds new energy to a market that desperately needs it.

State College doesn't get a lot of cultural events targeted at the South Asian community beyond what the student organizations put together. ISA does its thing, but there's a gap between Nittany Lion football weekends and actual social events where single people can meet. That's the gap we fill.

The isolation of State College is actually an advantage for a show like this. There's nowhere else to go. When we announce a date, the room fills itself. Get on the waitlist below, or apply to be a contestant. Happy Valley is about to get a lot more interesting on a Saturday night.