Channel 5 to revive Blind Date

I think some of the production crew had an inkling that something was afoot. Perhaps not exactly what, but something.

Whoops, i meant 13:44 in that clip i posted above.

I thought the director seemed pretty on the ball in cutting to the audience for their reaction. However Cilla claims that it had been planned for her to do a bit which involved the audience saying Happy New Year to each other, so the shot would have been set up already.

It's a testament to her professionalism that she was able to slot it so seamlessly into a live show. Also I don't think she got enough credit for being able to host the live version as well as she did, with limited recent experience in live television.

Indeed, and on the One Show on Friday, when Paul O'Grady was a guest, they linked into a report from him by pointing that out.

Who was "Our Graham" and was he noteable for anything else?

Graham Skidmore, he was really only known for Blind Date and the V/O for Shooting Stars. Apart from that not much actually.

Only just realised Our Graham was the also iconic voice over from Shooting Stars. Thank you.

Ah well spotted. That looks intentional - a purple curtain or something. Perhaps the design of the screen meant you could see inside the wall and it didn't look great.

Did they change the screen/set at all in 94? Clips I've seen on YT remains the same in 1994.

Yes they took the weird grey marble effect away from the Autumn 94 series onwards, just leaving purple/blue. I don't think the design of the screen changed, but from 1994 onwards it didn't go all the way back, meaning it didn't need anything to drop down and cover up the gap.

Week three and no LGBTQ+7 (or whatever the acronym is this week) yet, which makes it seems like the afterthought, in which case they'd have been better off not bothering.

Paul's really carrying it and I hope ITV nab it for themselves if they can save the show, as it'll only do a couple of series on 5.

The LGBT edition of Blind Date is this Saturday.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/05/relaunched-blind-date-to-celebrate-pride-with-first-lgbt-episode?CMP=twt_gu