About the show

Dating In The Dark returns for a second series and continues to explore how important aesthetic attraction is when it comes to achieving emotional intimacy, and asks the million dollar question – do looks really matter? Each week we offer six singletons, all genuinely looking for love, a totally unique way of meeting someone special – in total darkness. From the makers of Big Brother, Dating In The Dark airs exclusively on Living from Tuesday, July 13th at 9pm.

We all think we know what we’re looking for in a partner: Tall, dark and handsome… But surely you wouldn’t be so shallow as to rule out the potential love of your life on something as transitory as looks? Each episode, Dating In The Dark invites three single guys and three single girls to take up residence in separate apartments within a specially designed house where they are kept completely apart, only meeting each other in a dating room which is kept in pitch darkness: the Dark Room. So dark, our singletons cannot even see their own hand in front of their face. Viewers follow the action, week by week, via state of the art infra-red cameras in the dark room, as well as fully-lit footage of the boys and girls in their separate apartments.