My daughter, Sarah, and I have been watching Dating In the Dark for a few weeks. The show works like this; 3 men and 3 women meet and date in the dark. The audience is able, through a night vision camera – to watch the whole thing.
They begin with a group date and then progress through individual dates and getting-to-know-you clue-type “games.” For example they have a sketch artist draw the daters by verbal description (describing people they have not seen yet), or they see what their apartments look like when they are gone (Once a woman had ants. Oh, the …read more

Every week, while watching So You Think You Can Dance with my pal, Leah, we see promos for a new dating-type reality show called More To Love. It looks like it’s set up in the same vein as the Bachelor/Bachelorette, which makes sense as all three shows are executive produced by Mike Fleiss.
The ladies in the promos are very pretty, perfectly coiffed and made up, talking about how much they want to find a true love story. I’m a sucker for that sort of thing, so I plan to watch the More To Love when it premieres on July …read more

This weekend I caught an episode of the show Must Love Kids on TLC.  Basically a dating reality show, wherein three single moms meet single men, get to know them, and then see how they relate to their children.  The show is on Saturdays at noon and they offer the first episode for online viewing. 
I caught the first episode when it first aired and the women had their choice of a variety of men, but they were way, way past that point by the 9/30/08 episode.  Now it’s meet the family time, with each man hosting one of the three moms …read more