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Blind Date is a British dating game show first produced by London Weekend Television. An unscreened pilot was made with comic Duncan Norvelle as presenter [1] but it was eventually hosted by Cilla Black, who already hosted the LWT series, Surprise Surprise . Blind Date originally ran on Saturday nights from 30 November 1985 to 31 May 2003 on ITV.
The show returned in 2017 on Channel 5, 2 years since the death of the original presenter, Cilla Black. The new series began airing on 17 June 2017 in its usual Saturday night slot and is produced by So Television, Olga TV and Stellify Media, a firm part-owned by Sony Pictures Television. [2] Paul O'Grady presents the revived series. [3] Melanie Sykes became the new voice of the show, taking over the role most famously held by Graham Skidmore in the original series. [4]
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Series | Start date | End date | Episodes |
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1 (19) | 17 June 2017 | 23 December 2017 | 7 |
2 (20) | 30 December 2017 | 3 February 2018 | 6 |
3 (21) | 16 June 2018 | 18 August 2018 | 10 |
22 December 2018 | 29 December 2018 | ||
4 (22) | 7 April 2019 | 19 May 2019 | 10 |
2 June 2019 | 16 June 2019 |
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Episode no. | Air date | Viewers (millions) [5] | ITV weekly ranking |
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1 | 19 October 2002 | 5.69 | 22 |
2 | 26 October 2002 | 5.53 | 23 |
3 | 2 November 2002 | 5.81 | 23 |
4 | 9 November 2002 | 6.11 | 23 |
5 | 16 November 2002 | 5.93 | 23 |
6 | 23 November 2002 | 6.04 | 22 |
7 | 30 November 2002 | 5.05 | 25 |
8 | 7 December 2002 | 5.18 | 25 |
9 | 14 December 2002 | 5.25 | 26 |
10 | 21 December 2002 | 5.39 | 24 |
11 | 28 December 2002 | 5.90 | 17 |
12 | 4 January 2003 | 6.77 | 18 |
13 | 11 January 2003 | 5.87 | 22 |
14 | 18 January 2003 | 5.31 | 26 |
15 | 25 January 2003 | 5.23 | 26 |
16 | 1 February 2003 | 5.01 | 28 |
17 | 8 February 2003 | Under 5.21 | Outside Top 30 |
18 | 15 February 2003 | 6.17 | 19 |
19 | 22 February 2003 | 4.44 | 30 |
20 | 1 March 2003 | 4.55 | 30 |
21 | 8 March 2003 | 4.26 | 30 |
22 | 15 March 2003 | Under 4.78 | Outside Top 30 |
23 | 22 March 2003 | ? | ? |
24 | 10 May 2003 | Under 5.15 | Outside Top 30 |
25 | 17 May 2003 | Under 3.95 | Outside Top 30 |
26 | 24 May 2003 | Under 4.23 | Outside Top 30 |
27 | 31 May 2003 | Under 3.52 | Outside Top 30 |
Episode no. | Air date | 7 day viewers (millions) | 28 day viewers (millions) | Channel 5 weekly ranking |
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1 | 17 June 2017 | 2.25 | 2.29 | 1 |
2 | 24 June 2017 | 1.67 | 1.71 | 3 |
3 | 1 July 2017 | 1.42 | 1.47 | 4 |
4 | 8 July 2017 | 1.14 | 1.21 | 12 |
5 | 15 July 2017 | 1.14 | 1.15 | 11 |
6 | 22 July 2017 | 1.38 | 1.40 | 5 |
7 | 23 December 2017 | — | — | — |
Episode no. | Air date | 7 day viewers (millions) | 28 day viewers (millions) | Channel 5 weekly ranking |
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1 | 30 December 2017 | 1.17 | 1.25 | 8 |
2 | 6 January 2018 | 0.89 | 0.97 | 18 |
3 | 13 January 2018 | 0.88 | 0.91 | 23 |
4 | 20 January 2018 | 1.04 | 1.05 | 12 |
5 | 27 January 2018 | 0.84 | 0.87 | 21 |
6 | 3 February 2018 | 0.80 | 0.82 | 20 |
Episode no. | Air date | 7 day viewers (millions) | 28 day viewers (millions) | Channel 5 weekly ranking |
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1 | 16 June 2018 | 0.73 | 0.76 | 19 |
2 | 23 June 2018 | 0.68 | 0.70 | 20 |
3 | 30 June 2018 | 0.61 | 0.62 | 24 |
4 | 21 July 2018 | 1.09 | 1.09 | 5 |
5 | 28 July 2018 | 1.08 | 1.09 | 4 |
6 | 4 August 2018 | 1.13 | 1.14 | 9 |
7 | 11 August 2018 | 1.16 | 1.17 | 2 |
8 | 18 August 2018 | 1.06 | 1.07 | 7 |
9 | 22 December 2018 | 1.00 | 1.03 | 8 |
10 | 29 December 2018 | 1.17 | 1.19 | 8 |
Episode no. | Air date | 7 day viewers (millions) | 28 day viewers (millions) | Channel 5 weekly ranking |
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1 | 7 April 2019 | 0.75 | 0.76 | 15 |
2 | 14 April 2019 | — | — | — |
3 | 21 April 2019 | 0.59 | — | 22 |
4 | 28 April 2019 | 0.96 | 0.98 | 9 |
5 | 5 May 2019 | 0.83 | 0.85 | 14 |
6 | 12 May 2019 | — | — | — |
7 | 19 May 2019 | 0.79 | — | 15 |
8 | 2 June 2019 | — | TBC | TBC |
9 | 9 June 2019 | 0.68 | TBC | 17 |
10 | 16 June 2019 | TBC | TBC | TBC |
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