Dates (TV series)
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| Genre | Drama |
| Written by | Bryan Elsley |
| Directed by | John Maybury |
| Starring | |
| Opening theme | "Chloe" by Hannah Peel |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 9 (list of episodes) |
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| Producer(s) |
Bradley Adams Chris Clough Harry Enfield |
| Location(s) | London |
| Running time | 30 min |
| Production company(s) | Balloon Entertainment Ltd. |
| Release | |
| Original network | Channel 4 |
| Original release | 10 June – 3 July 2013 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Dates is a British television romantic drama series created by Bryan Elsley, who also created Skins, which first aired on Channel 4 on 10 June 2013, at 22:00 (BST), as part of its "Mating Season" programming, illustrating a series of first dates between online dating service users. The show's target audience is "ABC1".
Set in London, each episode focuses on one date.
Creator Bryan Elsley conceived the idea of Dates in December 2011/January 2012, stating "a date is a very complex and grown up interaction between two people. It's a complex language that everyone understands. Everyone knows the difficulty of spending an hour or so in someone's company that you haven't met before. It seemed to be that there was an almost infinite range of possibilities that could flow from that. So dramatically it became very attractive".Dates was commissioned and approved by Channel 4 in September 2012.
Dates was filmed in London during the first quarter of 2013.
Dates features numerous up-and-coming and more established British and Irish actors and actresses.
To promote the series and to provide further background knowledge, Channel 4 has created a series of fake online dating profiles for each of the main characters.
Dates has been critically well received thus far. Tom Sutcliffe from The Independent wrote, "the writer who wants to leave an impression behind will always be tugged towards a gratifying finish. Credit due to Bryan Elsley, then, for ending the first of Dates, a series of dramas about modern relationships, with an ambiguity".
Of the first episode, Gerard O'Donovan of The Telegraph wrote, "It was enjoyable, I didn't just want more, I couldn't wait to see how successive episodes would link and weave into a format so unforgivingly dependent on great writing and acting. Suffice to say, in a game of snog, marry or avoid, Dates is definitely a keeper".
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