Taken Out

Taken Out
Genre	Comedy
Developed by	FremantleMedia Australia
Presented by	James Kerley
Opening theme	"I Never Liked You" by Rogue Traders
Country of origin	Australia
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	65
Production
Producer(s)	FremantleMedia Australia
Running time	30 minutes
Release
Original network	Network Ten
Picture format	576i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV)
Audio format	Stereo
First shown in	Australia
Original release	1 September 2008 – 26 February 2009
External links
Website
Production website

Taken Out is an Australian television dating game show that was originally broadcast on Network Ten between 1 September 2008 and 26 February 2009. The format was developed by FremantleMedia and was hosted by James Kerley, a Foxtel television presenter who has also hosted shows such as Cash Cab and The Dave & Kerley Show.

British, Irish and Philippine versions of the show have been developed under the name Take Me Out. Versions have also been made in Denmark, Indonesia, the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, Finland, Spain, China, Italy, United States, Japan, Thailand, Taiwan, Canada (Quebec) and Lebanon .

Taken Out is primarily a studio-based show, with limited amounts of location-based material, that involves a single person who is introduced to thirty single people of the opposite sex which were revealed to them in the Taken Out arena. The show is split into two sections: The initial selection in the studio, and the two stage date. During the course of the game, the host presents information and videos about the single person and based upon this information, the thirty people periodically decide independently, if they should 'leave their light on' and stay in the game with the chance to date the single person or to 'turn their light out' and exclude themselves from the chance to date the person.

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