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[[ITV Play]] aimed to give new meaning to ''participation television'' when they launched ''the UK's first interactive dating TV show'' (haven't they heard of [[Dial-a-Date]]?). Playdate involved 2-3 hours of speed-dating where various ''singletons'' of the male and female human variety (or ''datees'' as they were referred to) took calls and texts from the five viewers that actually bothered to do so, let alone tune in.
[[ITV Play]] aimed to give new meaning to ''participation television'' when they launched ''the UK's first interactive dating TV show'' (haven't they heard of [[Dial-a-Date]]?). Playdate involved 2-3 hours of speed-dating where various ''singletons'' of the male and female human variety (or ''datees'' as they were referred to) took calls and texts from the five viewers that actually bothered to do so, let alone tune in.
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But there was one complete drawback. The ''datees'' were not members of the public. It turned out from various reports contributed to the website QuizTelly.com, the ''datees'' were selected from various casting and extras agencies. Many of them were part time models and had media connections and would appear on the programme so many times. The biggest give away to this involved the appearance of Leanne Dance, who previously appeared on [[ITV Play]] as an on-screen production runner in ''The School Run'', a short-lived phone-in quiz show.  
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But there was one complete drawback. The ''datees'' were not members of the public. It turned out from various reports contributed to the website QuizTelly.com that the ''datees'' were selected from various casting and extras agencies. Many of them were part time models and had media connections and would appear on the programme so many times. The biggest give away to this involved the appearance of Leanne Dance, who previously appeared on [[ITV Play]] as an in-vision production runner in ''The School Run'', a short-lived phone-in quiz show.  
ITV backed down and axed the programme after two months on air. Meanwhile, in millions of homes across the country, life went on.
ITV backed down and axed the programme after two months on air. Meanwhile, in millions of homes across the country, life went on.

Revision as of 13:27, 15 March 2007

Contents

Hosts

Brendan Courtney
Dave O' Reilly
Giles Vickers-Jones
Kat Shoob
Katy Pullinger
Zoe Hardman
Kate Lawler

Broadcast

Hamma + Glamma Productions for ITV Play, 6th October 2006 - 17th December 2006

Synopsis

ITV Play aimed to give new meaning to participation television when they launched the UK's first interactive dating TV show (haven't they heard of Dial-a-Date?). Playdate involved 2-3 hours of speed-dating where various singletons of the male and female human variety (or datees as they were referred to) took calls and texts from the five viewers that actually bothered to do so, let alone tune in.

But there was one complete drawback. The datees were not members of the public. It turned out from various reports contributed to the website QuizTelly.com that the datees were selected from various casting and extras agencies. Many of them were part time models and had media connections and would appear on the programme so many times. The biggest give away to this involved the appearance of Leanne Dance, who previously appeared on ITV Play as an in-vision production runner in The School Run, a short-lived phone-in quiz show.

ITV backed down and axed the programme after two months on air. Meanwhile, in millions of homes across the country, life went on.

Trivia

Hamma + Glamma Productions went to achieve great success with that long-running series, The Debbie King Show.

Web links

QuizTelly.com - source of the datees reports

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