Singled Out is an American dating game show created by Burt Wheeler & Sharon Sussman which originally ran on MTV from 1995 to 1998.
[2] When McCarthy left the show in early 1997 to star in her own sitcom, Jenny,[3][4] MTV hired Carmen Electra to replace her for the last season and a half.
Contestants would most likely be unconventional and cast purely for entertainment, without any assumed compatibility put into effect.
Despite attempts to modernize the format by incorporating a social media aspect and implementing MTV’s Wild 'N Out cast members Justina Valentine and Conceited as hosts to appeal to its urban contemporary & hip hop audience, the series reboot only lasted seven episodes.
On June 4, 2019, it was announced that a reboot of the series would premiere on April 6, 2020 on Quibi with Keke Palmer & Joel Kim Booster as hosts.
[7] The Picker was presented with a board showing six categories, which ranged from physical attributes to preferences in love-making to leisure activities.
In the third season, a Golden Ticket was introduced, which allowed the Picker to save one eliminated player as he or she walked in front of him on the way out of the studio.
to stunt-oriented questions (example, hitting a paddle ball a number of times, with the female host relaying the potential date's performance to the Picker).
"Dumped" contestants were not shown to the Picker as in the first round, but were instead marked with some sort of prop, such as a toilet seat around the neck, a bag with a sad face on it on the male player's head, or a pageant sash labeled "Dumped".
Each time a contestant's answer matched the Picker's, the player advanced one space on the walkway (occasionally, a question might be worth two steps).
On a few amusing occasions, the finalists visibly and audibly were not pleased by the looks or personality of the Picker, and were trying to guess the WRONG answers so they didn't have to go out with him, with one "winner" bluntly telling Chris Hardwick and Jenny McCarthy that she would not accept the date and walking off the set.
After a couple had been made, the two contestants were placed back-to-back while Hardwick read a description of the winning player to the Picker.
The show has a hip hop/urban contemporary theme, with social media or Tinder elements.
Once a category is chosen, two or three choices are listed, and The Picker eliminates any contestant who falls under that trope.
At this time, the Picker is only allowed to choose one IRL and one URL contestant to move onto the following round.
The Picker then raises a cue card of their own choice, and each matching contestant is awarded a point.