Instead of one bachelor and three bachelorettes, it's one guy and thirty girls. It's called Take Me Out and is based on an Australian original. One by one the thirty lovelies tune out the bachelor by switching off their podium lights. Eventually the remaining ladies compete for the gentleman.
TV pundit James Hibbard wittily pegs the show as "sort of like The Bachelor: Speed Dating Edition. Or The Dating Game meets Deal or No Deal. Or Singled Out on steroids." The clip of the British version is sprightly enough, even if the dance moves at the start are a little cheesy. But the ladies seem impressed, anyway.
Hibbard points out that Fox's last two game shows, Million Dollar Money Drop and Moment of Truth, quickly foundered. Money Drop succumbed to a glacial pace, and Moment of Truth was just too slimy, even by Fox's flexible standards. At first glance this dating project looks livelier and less obnoxious. Fox supposedly plans a summer debut.
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