You may have seen my Tweets from last night, but I’ve come across a new piece of Saturday night television that it ridiculously cheap, trashy, and very very funny- unlike the other batch of weekend programming which is just cheap and trashy. The show is called Take Me Out and it airs on TV3 in Ireland and the ITV network in Great Britain.

In short: 30 women, all single who are looking for some romance/passion/gold-digging/whatever, ranging from classy to trashy, stand at podiums with lights. Bloke, who think he’s God’s gift to women (typical  greasy haired, high-street fashion wearing twentysomething) comes down an elevator onto the stage and sells himself to the girls. The ladies decide to they like him- lights stay on for yes, and go off for no. Paddy McGuinness (that bloke from Phoenix Nights) finds out why girls with lights off are not interested. Then, the remaining girls, after several rounds of window shopping for the them, are eliminated by the bloke turning off the rest of the lights and selecting, if any, which girl he wants. They then go on a date where the couple are brought to Nandos “Fernandos”- apparently it’s an exclusive restaurant in Manchester. That’s it.

It’s the kind of television junk you hate to love. It’s addictive, purely for comical reasons. It’s not very intelligent, and it’s far from serious, and it’s the perfect piece of tripe to tide you over for an hour. Seriously, I can’t recommend it enough.

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