The craziest ride

Imagine waking up one day and losing access to all your social media accounts. Scary? Disturbing? Apocalypse? Must be all three at once. In a world of social media fixation, getting our accounts hacked is the worst nightmare ever. And Cyrus Sahukar and Jose Covaco are here to do exactly the same. MTV brings ‘The Anti-Social Network’, the first of the kind quirky game show that challenges your social media presence and turns it around in a blink. The show started from February 1 and airs every Friday at 7:00 pm.

In a never seen before format on Indian television, ‘The Anti-Social Network’ will see two of the most popular faces among the youth, VJ and actor Cyrus Sahukar and famous social media personality Jose Covaco take over the social media profiles of two contestants in each episode and flip their virtual personalities.

The contestants will be given the weirdest of challenges, putting them out of their comfort zone while the hosts continue to update about the same on their social media handles – all this while the world is oblivious of this takeover. A saree-clad man walking around the streets and making blasphemous statements; Cyrus and Jose posting the weirdest and the most embarrassing pictures posing as You- can it get more bizarre and weirder than this? The replies and reactions to the posts will be highlighted and revealed on screen and post the final prank, which promises to be something outrageous, Cyrus and Jose will announce the winner.

Cyrus Sahukar, who comes back as a host for this show after Elevator Pitch said “Imagine your social media accounts being taken over by someone? Weird updates, bizarre pictures, presenting a perspective that is completely opposing your social media life...How crazy would that be? At a time when we are on our phones 24*7, ‘The Anti-Social Network’ comes with a concept that’s both whacky and challenging. Jose and I will bring the craziest elements in this show by taking over social media accounts of contestants. I’m excited to get to work on shows that have such out-of-the-box formats. The Anti-Social Network will be a fun ride.”

Stand-up comedian Jose Covaco said “I am quite kicked by the idea of getting hold of someone’s phone and controlling their social media for a day. How ridiculously fun would that be? The Anti-Social Network is going to let me do exactly this and having Cyrus with me, I know I'll be laughing a lot and we’re going to have a blast flipping people's social media accounts. I’m super excited and nervous to start this new journey on MTV and meet some interesting people along the way on this show"