First Dates

For the Australian version, see First Dates (Australia).
First Dates
Genre Reality
Starring Fred Sirieix
Narrated by Brian Protheroe
Country of origin United Kingdom
Original language(s) English
No. of series 6
No. of episodes 50
Production
Running time 60 minutes (inc. adverts)
Production company(s) Twenty Twenty
Distributor Warner Bros. Television Productions UK
Release
Original network Channel 4
Picture format 16:9
Original release 20 June 2013 (2013-06-20) – present
Website

First Dates is a British reality television show that has aired on Channel 4 since 20 June 2013. The show is narrated by Brian Protheroe.

First Dates Ireland, the Irish version of the show, first aired on R.T.É. 2 on Thursday, 21 April 2016. First Dates Ireland is filmed in the restaurant of The Gibson Hotel on Mayor Street in the Point Village in Dublin. It is also made by Twenty Twenty for R.T.É..

Format

The show is filmed at the Paternoster Chop House restaurant in Central London, showing many people on dates, all of whom have not met each other before. At the end of the date, the couples are interviewed together and asked whether they would like to see each other again.

Restaurant staff

The restaurant's maitre d' Fred Sirieix offers pieces to camera on the nature of love, romance and dating.[1]

CiCi Coleman, Laura Tott and Sam Conrad are the waiting staff. Merlin Griffiths is the barman.[2]

Transmissions

Series Start date End date Episodes
1 20 June 2013[3] 25 July 2013[4] 6[4]
2 12 February 2014[5] 2 April 2014[6] 8[6]
3 6 March 2015[7] 29 April 2015[8] 9[8]
4 10 September 2015[9] 17 December 2015[10] 16[10]
5 15 January 2016[11] 12 February 2016[12] 5[12]
6 15 March 2016[13] 19 April 2016[14] 6[14]

Special episodes

On 12 October 2015, a celebrity edition of First Dates was shown.[15] This was part of a fundraising evening on Channel 4 for Stand Up to Cancer. The celebrities taking part were Jorgie Porter, an actress in Hollyoaks; Anthea Turner, TV presenter; Jamie Laing from Made in Chelsea; and Alexandra Burke, a singer, and winner of the fifth series of The X Factor.

On 17 December 2015[16] Channel 4 aired a special episode of First Dates subtitled "The Proposal". This saw the return of 5 couples who had initially had their first dates in earlier episodes and who had formed a relationship, and also included the first marriage proposal of a couple, by Scott to Victoria, who had met during an earlier episode of Series 4.

References

  1. ↑ Nicholson, Rebecca (16 September 2015). "From Blind Date to First Dates: how TV matchmaking grew up". The Guardian.
  2. ↑ "32 Things You Probably Didn't Know About "First Dates"". BuzzFeed.
  3. ↑ "First Dates - Series 1 Episode 1". All 4. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
  4. 1 2 "First Dates - Series 1 Episode 6". All 4. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
  5. ↑ "First Dates - Series 2 Episode 1". All 4. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
  6. 1 2 "First Dates - Series 2 Episode 8". All 4. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
  7. ↑ "First Dates - Series 3 Episode 1". All 4. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
  8. 1 2 "First Dates - Series 3 Episode 9". All 4. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
  9. ↑ "First Dates - Series 4 Episode 1". All 4. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
  10. 1 2 "First Dates - Series 4 Episode 16". All 4. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
  11. ↑ "First Dates - Series 5 Episode 1". All 4. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
  12. 1 2 "First Dates - Series 5 Episode 5". All 4. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
  13. ↑ "First Dates - Series 6 Episode 1". All 4. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
  14. 1 2 "First Dates - Series 6 Episode 6". All 4. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
  15. ↑ Wightman, Catriona (12 October 2015). "Aww! Jorgie Porter finds romance in Celebrity First Dates". Digital Spy.
  16. ↑ Delgado, Kasia (18 December 2015). "First Dates proposal – watch the moment a couple got engaged on Channel 4". RadioTimes.

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