Everyday Gator

Everyday Gator is an original ongoing variety web series, produced by Tangible Productions.

Concept & Development
Towards the end of the first semester of College Life production (Spring 2013), Katie Bonti presented the idea of "Everyday Gator" to John Barton. She pitched the show as IRHA's (UF's Inter-Residence Hall Association's) official talk show, and as a show that would feature the goings-on around campus. It would serve as an additional promotional outlet for IRHA events as well as segments that should do well on the Internet.

Season 1 (IRHA Partnership)
(see also: Season 1)

For the first season of "Everyday Gator" (Fall 2013 - Spring 2014), Tangible Productions partnered with IRHA to produce the show. Tangible Productions handled all aspects of production, while IRHA gave input on segment ideas and events to spotlight. The IRHA YouTube channel was where the episodes were uploaded and released. As the year went on, IRHA became less involved as it became clear that Tangible Productions, mostly the team of John and Katie, could run the entire show effectively on their own. The first season ran 10 episodes, each with 3-4 segments. These episodes were long, lasting anywhere from 12 minutes to upwards of 19 minutes, and were released every other Sunday through most of the school year.

=== Split from IRHA === For Everyday Gator's second season, Tangible wanted the full rights to produce "Everyday Gator" on their own. John Barton cited copyright issues with the IRHA YouTube channel and more creative freedom with segments as well as promotion as reasons for wanting the split from IRHA. When presented with the choice of hiring Tangible (at a cost) to produce the show or cut it loose to the production company, IRHA granted Tangible full rights.

Now independent, the writers and producers of "Everyday Gator" (led by executive producers John Barton and Katie Bonti) decided to split the episodes into individual segments released twice a week to shorten the length of each episode and release content on a more regular basis.

Partway into production of the first episode of Season 2, the project was indefinitely suspended due to personal issues with members of the production crew. The show was put on hold and that first episode was never released.

=== Season 2 === Nearly a year later, John Barton and Katie Bonti decided to re-launch "Everyday Gator" for its (real) second season over the Fall 2015 - Spring 2016 season. They built off the work they had done after the IRHA split, maintaining the single-segment format released twice a week. Halfway through the year, Katie Bonti left her post as executive producer and was replaced by Eddie Datz, who continued to work alongside John Barton to make the show possible.

Segments
The following are segment types the show has run: