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Dating game shows are
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s that incorporates a variety of
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systems and services in the form of a game with clear rules. Human
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is involved only in selecting the game's contestants, who are usually selected more for the amusement value than any concern for their happiness or compatibility. The audience sees only the game; an important feature of all dating game shows is that the contestants have little or no previous knowledge of each other, and are exposed to each other only through the game, which may include viewing a photograph or at least knowing the basic criteria for participation (typically participants are not already married). There have been a number of dating shows aired on television over the years, using a variety of formats and rules. They are presented for the entertainment of the viewers. As the genre progressed, the format developed towards a reality-style show and more into a relationship show then simply finding a mate.


History

The dating game show subgenre has its origins in the
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. The original dating game shows were introduced by
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Chuck Barris Charles Hirsch Barris (June 3, 1929 – March 21, 2017) was an American game show creator, producer, and host. Barris was known for hosting ''The Gong Show'' and creating ''The Dating Game'' and ''The Newlywed Game''. He was also a songwrite ...
. The format of Barris's first dating show, ''
The Dating Game ''The Dating Game'' is an American television game show that first aired on December 20, 1965, and was the first of many shows created and packaged by Chuck Barris from the 1960s through the 1980s. ABC dropped the show on July 6, 1973, but it ...
'', which premiered in 1965, saw a bachelor or bachelorette ask questions of three singles seen only by the audience. The various suitors were able to describe their rivals in uncomplimentary ways, which made the show work well as a general devolution of dignity. Some of the questions were written to elicit humorous or suggestive answers. Another Barris show, ''
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'', featured recently-married couples competing to answer questions about each other's preferences. The couple who knew each other the best would win the game; sometimes others got divorced. Once, someone divorced after appearing on ''The Newlywed Game'' got a "second chance" on ''The Dating Game''. Gimmicks were the lifeblood of all such shows, which drew criticisms for instigating disaffection that could not have been effected. The genre waned for a while but it was later revived by ''The New Dating Game'' and the UK version ''
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'', and the original shows were popular in
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s, unusual for any game show.
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revived some interest in these shows during the 1980s and 1990s, and eventually new shows began to be made along the old concepts. Variations featuring
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contestants began to appear on a few specialty channels. Other shows focused on the conventional
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, where two people were set up and then captured on video, sometimes with comments or subtitles that made fun of their dating behaviour. '' He Said, She Said'' focused not on setting up the date, but on comparing the couple's different impressions afterwards, and for their cooperation offering to fund a second date. These resembled the reality shows that began to emerge at about the same time in the 1990s. The increased popularity of
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since the early 2000s influenced new types of dating shows, where the emphasis was on realistic actions and tensions, but which used less realistic scenarios than the traditional blind date: *'' The Bachelor'' (2002) and ''
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'' (2003),
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series where a single man or woman partakes in activities with a larger group of women or men respectively, and progressively eliminates contestants from the pool over the course of the season. *''
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'' (2001), in which four people, two of one sex and two of another, are allowed to meet and bond to an extent, before a "fifth wheel," a person of one of either gender, but always a heterosexual, enters and attempts to break up the equilibrium. *''
Joe Millionaire ''Joe Millionaire'' is an American reality dating show that premiered on Fox in 2003. The first two seasons of the series followed a group of single women, competing for the affection of a bachelor who was falsely billed as being a millionaire ...
'' (2003), a
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series satirizing the genre, where a group of women competed to become the bride of a bachelor billed as being a millionaire. However, the bachelor was actually a
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worker who wasn't a millionaire. If the last remaining woman still accepted his love despite the stunt, they also shared a grand prize of $1 million. A 2022 revival employs two bachelors, with one of them stated to be a millionaire (but not revealing which one). *'' Love Island'' (2015)'','' a British series where a group of male and female singles are isolated at a
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in a vacation setting, attempting to form couples while also competing in challenges to earn advantages and the opportunity to go on dates. Couples may also face elimination via viewer vote *'' Temptation Island'' (2001), where long-standing heterosexual couples were deliberately separated and made to watch each other's mates interacting romantically on and after dates, making extensive use of video—the only means by which they could communicate on the island. *''
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'' (2000) a one-off Fox special with a
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-like contest to become the bride of a single man, billed as a having a
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of at least $1 million, whose identity was not revealed until the conclusion of the competition. Alongside these reality competitions, there were also other new studio-based formats for dating shows. The 2008 Australian series ''
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'', which was exported internationally to other countries under the title ''Take Me Out'', featured bachelors discussing aspects of their personality and interests with a large pool of singles. The singles could press a button on their podium to eliminate themselves from contention if they were no longer interested in the bachelor, with the game ending once there are none remaining. GSN's '' Baggage'' (2010) featured suitors presenting and defending personal and often embarrassing details about themselves to a single. At the end of each episode, the single presents a detail of their own to their chosen suitor, who must choose to accept or decline their offer of a date.


Commonalities

Some common threads run through these shows. When participants are removed, it is usually done one at a time to drag out the action and get audience sympathy for specific players. In shows involving couples, there is a substantial incentive to break up any of the existing relationships. In shows involving
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, there is a mismatch of numbers ensuring constant competition. This creates the action, tension and humiliation when someone is rejected. There are also reports of
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practice, that is, members of one sex paid to participate in the game to attain balance of sex ratio.


Series involving gay and bisexual contestants

The first gay version of these more realistic shows to receive mainstream attention was '' Boy Meets Boy'', with a format similar to that of ''The Bachelor'' and ''The Bachelorette''. The show featured an unusual plot twist: eight of the men from the show's original dating pool were actually heterosexual men pretending to be homosexual; one important part of the plot was whether the gay contestant would be able to recognize the heterosexual men. Some gay and straight romances have been sparked on the other
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s, suggesting that they too may really be "dating shows" in disguise. But any social situation has the potential to result in romance, especially work. The first dating show to regularly incorporate bisexual contestants was
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series ''
A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila ''A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila'' is an American reality television dating game show similar to the TV show '' The Bachelor''. It premiered on October 9, 2007 on MTV starring Tila Tequila. The series consists of a bisexual-themed reality dati ...
'', which included both male and female contestants vying for the affections of the show's star, internet star
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, who is
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.
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also featured a season of Are You The One? with exclusively openly LGBT and sexually fluid contestants, a decision met with critical acclaim. The British series
Naked Attraction ''Naked Attraction'' is a British television dating game show, broadcast on Channel 4. A clothed person is faced with six naked people who are initially hidden in booths. Their bodies and faces are gradually revealed through successive roun ...
has, since its inception in 2016, included gay/lesbian and bisexual contestants, with some players picking from groups of the same gender as themselves, and some bisexual participants choosing from mixed groups. From the second series, the show would occasionally include potential dates who were in the process of transitioning.


Modern innovations

By the late 1990s and early 2000s, a new wave of dating shows began airing in U.S. syndication that were more sexually suggestive than their earlier counterparts, including shows such as ''
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'', '' Elimidate'' and ''
The 5th Wheel ''The 5th Wheel'' was an American dating Reality television, reality series that aired in Broadcast syndication, syndication from 2001 to 2004. The show was initially hosted by comedian Aisha Tyler, but when Tyler left after completing the first ...
'', which often pushed boundaries of sexual content allowed on broadcast television. As the 2000s progressed, the ratings for many of these shows began to decline, a situation exacerbated by the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy in 2004 as production companies out of fear of being imposed with monetary penalties by the
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(FCC) for indecent content began self-censoring their dating shows (and many syndicated programs targeted at the 18-49 demographic, in general) to levels in which even profanities typically permissible on television were edited out of episodes. Since then, the dating game show has virtually died off from television syndication, though cable television networks such as VH1 have continued to air dating shows with content similar to that of the syndicated dating shows of the late 1990s and early 2000s and major over-the-air broadcast networks have tried, often with marginal success, to use dating shows that are less risque compared to those shows. Attempts to revive the dating show in syndication first came in 2011, when ''
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'' and ''
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'' both debuted; this was followed in 2012 by
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's sale of reruns of the
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series '' Baggage'' into syndication. All three shows were dropped in September 2013, removing the genre from broadcast syndication for a time. In July 2014, VH1 aired ''
Dating Naked Dating is a stage of Romance (love), romantic relationships in which two individuals engage in an activity together, most often with the intention of evaluating each other's suitability as a partner in a future intimate relationship. It falls i ...
'', modeled on Dutch show '' Adam Zkt. Eva'', which matches up heterosexual contestants who are nude most of the time. A sobering caveat of the power of television and romance in combination came when a popular dating variant of the talk show, inviting
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s to meet on the stage, backfired on ''
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''. The admirer was a
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friend of a
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man who was so outraged after the taping that he later murdered the admirer. The secret admirer variant of the talk show has remained popular, it continued be used on ''
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'', but with less emotionally loaded surprises, and much more careful checking of the guests' backgrounds and attitudes; occasional episodes of '' Maury'' combine this format, though not always in a direct manner, with reveals of high school classmates who were considered to be unattractive as teenagers reuniting with their former school friends or tormentors as adults, after changing their image to become more physically attractive. The new wave of LGBTQ dating reality shows also spiked in popularity in the second half of the 2010s. The introduction of the secret
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into the context of the reality show is the case of Are You the One?. In 2019, reality television shows try to distance from conventional concepts of this TV format


Criticism

Like other games, the outcomes of these activities are open to rigging, leading to missed matches and possibly unhappiness among the participants. These programs have also been criticised for complicating
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with needless public expectation. In spite of this, some programs have produced episodes that portray follow-ups of unions forged therein, possibly with offspring.


Partial list of dating game shows

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The 5th Wheel ''The 5th Wheel'' was an American dating Reality television, reality series that aired in Broadcast syndication, syndication from 2001 to 2004. The show was initially hosted by comedian Aisha Tyler, but when Tyler left after completing the first ...
'' *'' 12 Corazones'' *'' Are You The One?'' *'' Average Joe'' *'' Baggage'' (US) *'' Baggage'' (UK) *'' The Bachelor'' *''
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Beauty and the Geek ''Beauty and the Geek'' is an American reality television series that premiered on The WB on June 1, 2005. It has been advertised as "The Ultimate Social Experiment" and is produced by Ashton Kutcher, Jason Goldberg and J.D. Roth. The show's ti ...
'' *'' Blind Date (UK)'' *'' Blind Date (U.S.)'' *'' Boy Meets Boy'' *'' Bzzz!'' *'' Chains of Love'' *'' Change of Heart'' *'' The Choice'' *''
Daisy of Love Daisy de la Hoya attending the premiere of VH1's "Daisy of Love" at My House, Hollywood, CA on April 26, 2009 ''Daisy of Love'' is an American reality television dating show which stars Daisy de la Hoya, the runner-up of the VH1 reality dating ...
'' *'' Date My Ex: Jo & Slade'' *''
Date My Mom ''Date My Mom'' is a television dating show airing on the music channel MTV and produced by Kalissa Productions. The series premiered on November 15, 2004 and ended in 2006. An 18- to 24-year-old heterosexual male, gay male or lesbian female, goes ...
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Dating in the Dark ''Dating in the Dark'' ( nl, Daten in het Donker) is a reality show created in the Netherlands where 3 single men and 3 single women move into a light-tight house getting to know each other and form bonds in total darkness. Format Dating Three m ...
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A Double Shot at Love ''A Double Shot at Love with the Ikki Twins'', also referred to simply as ''A Double Shot at Love'', is an American reality television dating game show that first aired weekly on MTV from December 9, 2008 to February 3, 2009. It is a spin-off of ...
'' *'' Dismissed'' *'' Elimidate'' *''
Excused ''Excused'' is an American dating reality-based competition series that debuted in first-run syndication in the United States and Canada on September 12, 2011. The half-hour series is hosted by comedian Iliza Shlesinger and created by David Garfi ...
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'' *'' EX-treme Dating'' *''
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Flavor of Love ''Flavor of Love'' is an American reality television dating game show starring Flavor Flav of the rap group Public Enemy. While not a direct spin-off, the show was a result of Brigitte Nielsen and Flavor Flav's failed relationship on ''Strange ...
'' *'' For Love or Money'' *''
For the Love of Ray J ''For the Love of Ray J'' is a dating show on VH1 featuring hip hop singer Ray J. The program has a format similar to ''Flavor of Love'', ''I Love New York'', and ''Rock of Love ''Rock of Love with Bret Michaels'' is an American reality tele ...
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Frank the Entertainer in a Basement Affair ''Frank the Entertainer in a Basement Affair'' (sometimes stylized ''Frank the Entertainer... in a Basement Affair'') is a VH1 reality television show starring Frank "The Entertainer" Maresca, who previously starred in ''I Love New York'', '' I Lo ...
'' *'' He Said, She Said'' *''
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Joe Millionaire ''Joe Millionaire'' is an American reality dating show that premiered on Fox in 2003. The first two seasons of the series followed a group of single women, competing for the affection of a bachelor who was falsely billed as being a millionaire ...
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Love Connection ''Love Connection'' is an American television dating game show in which singles attempt to connect with a compatible partner. Originally hosted by Chuck Woolery, the show debuted in syndication on September 19, 1983, and ended on July 1, 1994, a ...
'' *'' Love Games: Bad Girls Need Love Too'' *'' The Love Machine'' *'' Love on a Saturday Night'' *'' Love Triangle'' *'' Matchmaker'' *'' The Match Off'' *''
Megan Wants a Millionaire ''Megan Wants a Millionaire'' is an American reality television show on VH1 in which former ''Rock of Love'' contestant Megan Hauserman has seventeen wealthy single men compete for her love. The show originated from a comment made by Hauserman d ...
'' *'' Momma's Boys'' *'' Must Love Kids'' *'' Perfect Match'' *''
Naked Attraction ''Naked Attraction'' is a British television dating game show, broadcast on Channel 4. A clothed person is faced with six naked people who are initially hidden in booths. Their bodies and faces are gradually revealed through successive roun ...
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Paradise Hotel ''Paradise Hotel'' is an American reality television program. In the show, a group of singles live in a luxurious hotel resort, competing to see who can stay in the hotel the longest. Each week, the contestants pair off into couples, and must sh ...
'' *'' Ready for Love''* *''
Real Chance of Love ''Real Chance of Love'' is an American reality television dating game show featuring two brothers, Ahmad "Real" Givens (born on January 8, 1982, died on February 21, 2015, aged 33) and Kamal "Chance" Givens, (born on March 25, 1981), of the rap ...
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'' *'' Rendez-View'' *''
Rock of Love with Bret Michaels ''Rock of Love with Bret Michaels'' is an American reality television dating game show. It stars Bret Michaels, the lead singer from the band Poison. The show closely resembles the show ''Flavor of Love''. The first season featured 25 women comp ...
'' *'' Sexy Beasts'' *''
A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila ''A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila'' is an American reality television dating game show similar to the TV show '' The Bachelor''. It premiered on October 9, 2007 on MTV starring Tila Tequila. The series consists of a bisexual-themed reality dati ...
'' *'' Shipmates'' *''
Singled Out ''Singled Out'' is an American dating game show created by Burt Wheeler & Sharon Sussman which originally ran on MTV from 1995 to 1998. Each episode featured a group of 50 singles competing for a date with one main contestant. The original hosts ...
'' *'' Studs'' *'' Susan's The Courtship'' *'' Take Me Out'' *''
Taken Out ''Taken Out'' is an Australian television dating game show that was originally broadcast on Network Ten between 1 September 2008 and 26 February 2009. The format was developed by FremantleMedia (now Fremantle) and was hosted by James Kerley. ...
'' *'' Temptation Island'' *''
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'' *'' That's Amore!'' *''
Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire? ''Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?'' is an American reality television special in which 50 women competed in a beauty pageant-style contest to marry a wealthy man whom they had never met, with the wedding being performed at the end of the ...
'' *'' The X Effect'' *'' It's Showtime!'' segment, "KapareWho" *'' It's Showtime!'' segment, "Nasaan Ka, Mr. Pastillas?"


See also

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