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6 April 2012 3:01 AM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »

The allure of dating shows has them popping up all over the schedules. So why do we swoon for people searching for love on screen?

The latest addition to television's armoury of shows that matchmake members of the public for the enjoyment of the viewing millions is Sing Date – a new show based on online karaoke. Commissioned by Sky Living, the most shocking aspect of this idea isn't that a broadcaster thinks that people would want to watch what sounds like a hideous mixture of Glee, Don't Forget the Lyrics and Chatroulette, but that it thinks there's still room in the overcrowded dating market for more programmes.

Sing Date will be elbowing for room with Take Me Out (a show that's managed to capture the public's imagination despite the procession of tabloid-baiting wrong'uns who keep appearing as contestants), The Love Machine, where couples are matched purely on their physical appearance »

- Stuart Heritage

11 March 2012 5:35 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »

These wall-to-wall dating shows are so trashy and shallow – but I like them

I used to do this thing, a game, with a mate. It was to do with girls, I'm afraid. We'd be out and about, maybe sitting on a bench, looking at them – girls. From the moment the game starts you have to pick one girl – to be with, marry, do bad things with, whatever – from the next 10 to pass by. But once you've made your choice it's final, there's no changing your mind if a girl you like better comes along afterwards. So it's about risk, gambling, hanging on in the hope of something better, but maybe ending up with something worse. To be honest I usually played it safe and went with number one. Well, come on, she was a girl, wasn't she? That was a result in itself.

Obviously it was an appalling game – shallow, »

- Sam Wollaston

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