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Release Date:
20 September 1999 (USA) more
Plot:
Men and women who don't know each other are set up on blind dates and a camera crew follows them around to record how the date went.
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Awards:
3 nominations more
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The best "reality show"... period more (15 total)

Cast

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Roger Lodge ... Himself - Host / ... (10 episodes, 1999-2005)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Cupid Confidential (Europe: English title)
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30 min
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A Dutch version of the show appears on TeVe Holland as "Blind Match". There is a German version of the show, also called "Blind Date". more
Movie Connections:
Featured in Waist Deep (2006) more

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5 out of 6 people found the following comment useful.
The best "reality show"... period, 5 May 2003
Author: zapdude from Calgary, Canada

The premise is simple: the applicants create a video description of themselves, and the Blind Date team hooks them up. They choose from a list of "activities", then drive a special camera equipped vehicle to their date. After the activity is dinner, then a camera equipped cab ride to a bar, then a cab ride home.

The entire time, we are watching the couple interact. In post-production, they add in thought balloons and clever comments. When I first watched this show, I thought it looked stupid, but a girlfriend convinced me to watch. Now I'm hooked!

The best part of "Blind Date"? I'm not sure there is one. Sometimes you know they hooked up incompatible people, but in general I think they choose couples that look good on paper.

The very few of these dates that work, work well. You can visibly see the connection as it's made. But the majority don't work.

And why don't they work? Many reasons. Is it really true that most guys are so incredibly "on the make"? Some of these guys are absolutely pathetic in their attempts to get their "prize". Laughable.

And some of these women are shallower than a rain puddle. Several times I've seen some really nice, sincere guy getting totally sneered at by his "date" because he isn't wealthy or "attractive" enough.

I would say that this series says more about PEOPLE than any other "reality show". Instead of fake and contrived situations, this is just a low budget documentation of things that people DO in real life.

Seriously, there is no other "reality" program than can even come close to real life as Blind Date does. It's worth watching, it's even worth watching repeats to get details and nuances you may have missed the first time.

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