An online poll will be posted on the “Ivory Tower” website after every show to let fans vote on what they liked, what characters they prefer and what they would like to see in the show’s future.
“We want audience participation and involvement,” said Presser. “There’s going to be a cliffhanger and we’re going to let the audience decide what will happen.”
And although HRTV must enforce certain restrictions on the content of “Ivory Tower,” the show’s producers and writers have no intention of tiptoeing around racy subject matter or outrageous situations.
“I feel a responsibility to have some sort of funny sexual activity going on,” said Madrigal. “I feel like that’s one of my fortes as a writer. Sex is funny.”
“Whatever they write will be preserved,” said Deborah T. Mao ’05 in reference to the station’s broadcast guidelines. “It’s just a matter of how we depict things.”
“There are definitely more than two hookups in the first episode,” said Presser. “[It] will be fun to watch in more ways than one.”
—Crimson staff writer Elizabeth W. Green contributed to the reporting of this story.