The dates last for as long as two hours and are edited for episodes, each of which ends with a brief epilogue revealing if there was any continued contact between the daters.
[3] Based on the UK franchise,[1] it is produced by Force Four Entertainment and Remedy Canada in association with Shaw Media, and aired on Slice.
[1] For the first season, about a thousand people applied for dates on the show, 75% of them women.
[1] Producers were open to applicants, with daters who were handicapped, aged 19 to their 70s, heterosexual and homosexual, and a trans woman appeared in season two.
[1] Producers rejected "fame-seekers" who were trying to use the show to launch a career and were not genuinely interested in dating.