When groundbreaking series Dating in the Dark premiered on LIVING last summer it wasn’t just viewers who couldn’t stop talking about the audacious televised experiment in the nature of attraction. The media couldn’t get enough of the radical twist on the traditional dating show, and the prestigious Royal Television Society crowned the series Best Multi-Channel Programme 2009. Now the innovative show is back for another season of must-watch TV this week.

Examining the role of aesthetic attraction in falling in love, the programme offers six singletons per episode the chance to get to know each other in a whole new way – in total darkness! Three women share one half of a specially designed house, while three bachelors share the other half, with the men and women only meeting each other in a pitch black ‘Dark Room’. Viewers can follow all the action with cameras in the lit portions of the house and high-tech infrared footage of the daters getting to know each other in the Dark Room.

In the second episode of the series, what will happen when models Talia and Andy date in the dark. Will they prove that looks aren’t everything? What will Sci-Fi ‘geek’ Sami make of Britney Spears impersonator Lorna? Do opposites really attract? And despite being robbed of their sight, will alternatively-dressed Brandon and Alayne get it together in the darkness?

At the end of each show each participant picks who they feel they’ve connected with and that person is revealed in a spotlight for only a matter of seconds. Days of flirting may come to nothing if the big reveal disappoints. Each contestant must finally choose to meet their prospective partner in the flesh or walk away, potentially leaving them heartbroken. It’s nail-biting anguish for some singletons, but compelling telly for viewers as LIVING discovers if love really is blind.

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Dating In The Dark, the award-winning dating show with a difference is back for another season of must-watch TV; this time sprinkled with a peppering of celebrity daters looking for love – Pineapple Dance Studio’s Andrew Stone, Ben Clarke from The Apprentice and Georgina Baillie, granddaughter of Andrew Sachs.

The ground-breaking show puts matchmaking to the ultimate test by offering six singletons per episode the chance to get to know each other in a whole new way – in complete darkness.

Three women share one half of a house, while three bachelors share the other half, with the men and women only ever meeting each other in a specially designed ‘Dark Room’. High-tech infrared cameras allow the viewers to follow all the action in the Dark Room, meaning the viewers see what the daters can’t. There are also cameras in both the men’s and women’s apartments to capture all the action before and after each date.

At the end of the show, each dater picks the one person they feel they’ve connected with and that person is revealed in a spotlight for only a matter of seconds. Days of flirting may come to nothing if the big reveal disappoints. Each dater must finally choose whether to meet their prospective partner in the flesh or leave them heartbroken as they walk away for good. It’s nail-biting anguish for some singletons, but compelling telly for viewers as LIVING discovers if love really is blind.

Single lads and ladies looking for love this series include a Justin Timberlake look-a-like, a Playboy model, identical male twins, a professional footballer, a Britney Spears look-a-like and a naked waiter. Temperatures hot up in the dark room as the daters and celebrities get closer – will they prove that looks don’t always matter?

Dating In The Dark returns to LIVING on 13th July

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Georgina Baillie, grand-daughter of Andrew Sachs has reportedly signed up to appear in a celebrity version of Dating In The Dark.

The goth who was at the centre of the scandal that damaged Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand’s career last year, will be looking for love on the Living show later this year.

The show features three single men and three single women who move into a light-tight house and try to get to know each other and form bonds in total darkness.

Also rumoured to have signed up for the show are Pineapple Dance Studios star Andrew Stone and Apprentice reject Ben Clark.

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Three single girls and three single guys live in separate apartments within the dating house. During their stay they embark on a series of dates in the dark to see if true love really is blind. First on the agenda is a group date, after which it becomes apparent that Barry is the hot favourite male dater and Sarah has most certainly stolen the hearts from all the men.

There are journeys to be made and lessons to be learnt as the daters finally decide which love match they would like to meet up with …or will they decide to leave their love match broken hearted and walk out of the front door?

Dating in the Dark airs on LIVING Wednesday’s at 9pm.

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When the six lonely hearts meet for their first group date this week, personal trainer and sports massage therapist Daniel finds himself the focus of the keen attentions of all three single ladies. Freelance editor Alan isn’t giving up hope of wooing his lady of choice, however, and even breaks out his best rendition of of ‘Rock Me Amadeus’ to try and win her affections.

Meanwhile, one smitten couple get so cosy in the Dark Room, they can barely peel themselves apart. But will this feeling change when they see each other in the light?

Dating in the Dark airs on LIVING on Wednesdays at 9pm.

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To celebrate the launch of Living’s newest reality TV show, Dating In The Dark, the channel are launching a brand new, online dating service.

Get involved in LIVING’s biggest dating experiment by logging on and hooking up (in a cyber-sense, of course) with a randomly selected stranger.

Your ‘date’ will kick off with a simple Q&A to help you learn more about each other. A compatibility rating will shed some light on whether it looks like being a love match and, if you’re not feeling it, simply ‘dump’ your date and move on to the next romantic possibility.

The instant message service is open every Wednesday from 7pm – 12am till the 4th November. Get involved at http://datinginthedark.livingtv.co.uk/ and discover whether love is truly blind.

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Living is soon to launch a new dating show, with a whole new premise. Dating in the Dark is like Blind Date for the noughties!

In each episode, three men and three women, all single and looking for love, will live in separate apartments within a specially designed house, only meeting each other in a dating room kept in pitch darkness: the Dark Room. With viewers following the action via state of the art infra-red cameras, the lovebirds will need to use all their senses to help them decide which of the daters is their perfect match .At the end of the show they get to pick who they would like to see and after the lights are turned on, they then have to decide if they want to see that person again.

Imagine snogging someone that you thought was a Pamela Anderson lookalike, only to find out that you’d copped off with Susan Boyle. How do you let them down gently? The scope for this show is huge!

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Each episode – three men and three women, all single and looking for love – will live in separate apartments within a specially designed house, only meeting each other in a dating room kept in pitch darkness: the Dark Room. With viewers following the action via state of the art infra-red cameras, the lovebirds will need to use all their senses to help them decide which of the daters is their perfect match.

Will the pheromones kick in? Will a husky voice swing it? Will personality shine through and prove that true love really is blind? At the end of each episode our lonely hearts will pick the person they most want to date and see them in the flesh for the very first time. Will their looks kill the romance that has blossomed? If they want to go ahead with the date they either turn up in the library to prove their love – or walk away

Premiering on Wednesday 9th September at 9.00pm on Living

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