Greg Daniels never intended to make a dating show. Then the pandemic hit, and he and his 26-year-old daughter, Haley, found themselves shooting one.
Admittedly, Haley Daniels — an employee at Illumination by day — was a far bigger fan of the genre than her father, but they’d both watched Love Island and, as he recalls, “started kidding around about what would it be like if people my age were doing it instead of these incredibly attractive people her age.” Before long, they came up with a twist — single parents, nominated by their children, would be put together in a house to find love, while their kids watch and pull strings from a second house — and sold Your Mom, My Dad to HBO Max, where it debuted earlier…
