Blind Date (2)

Blind Date (not to be confused with the Dumont/ABC show of the same name) is a formerly popular reality dating show where men and women who have never met each other before prior to the show. are often set up on blind dates while a camera crew follows them around to record how the date went. which even includes a series of hilariously running commentary.

Broadcast
Syndication September 20, 1999-September 13, 2006

Host
Roger Lodge

Gameplay
During each episode, people who did not know each other were paired up and sent off on a blind date. The cameras followed their every move, while commentary in the form of subtitles, animations and "thought bubbles" was added by the show's producers.

The dates were often unsuccessful, with said failures alternating between plesant/boring times when there was no shared romantic spark and horrendous conflicts that included verbal and physical altercations, but a fair number of dates did end up going well and had the daters saying they would go out again in the future (the show would sometimes follow up and see if that actually happened; the most common result was that subsequent dates did happen but did not produce long-term relationships). Certain especially disastrous pairings were described as "Dates from Hell", and the show frequently concluded with excerpts from the show's Hall of Shame ("embarrassing moments"), Cutting Room Floor ("Footage that was comic but not deemed integral to a date's narrative") and Hot Zone ("extremely sexy footage from successful dates"). A few times people ended up appearing multiple times throughout the course of the series, a spot reserved for famously and widly unsuccessful daters like annoying Nicolas Cage-impersonating Johnny or shockingly angry and bitter divorcee Ward. Sometimes the subtitles Three Strikes, You're Out would be used on a date to indicate that the person has twice appeared on the show with unsuccessful dates and is foreshadowed to be another unsuccessful date yet again. the show even occasionally matched up people older than the usual under-30 age group. Two couples who met on the show did get married in real life, with both weddings featured in special episodes. In season 1 of the show, the dates had specific themes such as The Whole Ball of Wax and ''Hot and Cold. ''From seasons 2 thru 7, the themed dates would be dropped.

Spinoff
The 5th Wheel was a spin-off of it's sister show Blind Date, featuring more provocative and sexual content than it's sister show. the show was originally hosted by Aisha Tyler, but when Tyler left the show after completing the first season, the remaining two seasons were hosted (in narration-style) by Tom Gottlieb. and the format of the show was where two couples are going on a double date, halfway through the show joined by a male or female contestant. the series ran in syndication from

Cable Network Syndication
Reruns of the show were on the now defunct Fox Reality Channel.

Link

 * Production Website