MIPTV Picks 2013: The Year of Making Love

In what's been billed as Britain's biggest blind date, this social experiment series aims to create hundreds of scientifically-compatible couples.

By Realscreen Staff

March 1, 2013

FACTUAL ENTERTAINMENT

Partners: Fever Media; distributed by FremantleMedia

Length: 6 x 60 minutes

Premiered: February 2013 (BBC3)

Rights available: International format rights

In a world where online dating is moving into the norm, more than ever, we’re looking for new ways to connect and canoodle. In what’s been billed as “Britain’s biggest blind date,” this social experiment series aims to create hundreds of scientifically-compatible couples. After selecting matches through “scientifically robust” testing, the couples are followed over the course of a year to see if there are really plenty of fish in the sea for us all, or if, in our search for companionship, we can be “blinded by science.”

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Fever Media, FremantleMedia Enterprises, The Year of Making Love

About The Author

Barry Walsh is editor and content director for realscreen, and has served as editor of the publication since 2009. With a career in entertainment media that spans two decades, prior to realscreen, he held the associate editor post for now defunct sister publication Boards, which focused on the advertising and commercial production industries. Before Boards, he served as editor of Canadian Music Network, a weekly music industry trade, and as music editor for HMV.com. As content director, he also oversees the development of content for the brand's market-leading events, the Realscreen Summit and Realscreen West, as well as new content initiatives.

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