What Would You Choose?

I thought speed-dating was dating on steroids, but Fox has a new dating show out called The Choice, which they unapologetically stole from NBC’s The Voice (with celebs, spinning chairs and making decisions sans visuals…the whole nine) that is like speed-dating on crack after steroids.

I guess is trying to bring back the dating show. It comes and goes. Remember The Dating Game, and Love Connection and Studs? Well, then dating TV got serious (not really) with reality shows like The Bachelor, Rock of Love and (my fave) Flavor of Love. Now, we are back to the game show feel  what with George Lopez and his Take Me Out on Fox, also.

The Choice takes four celebrities and allows them to listen to a single man or woman rattle off their resume in 15 seconds or so. In that  a celeb can choose this person. If more than one choose them, that person gets to choose h celeb they are interested in. When a celeb has three of these singles in their harem, they are out of the running until all four have a harem of three, at which point the celebs are in control and get to narrow their selections to two and finally one.

It’s face-paced and adrenaline pumped. The couples go out on a date that we don’t hear about until the next week (a 20 second recap). It looks fun, but a real dating show? No way. It gives B stars a chance to get more screen time while giving god-looking singles their 15 minutes of fame and a chance of being “discovered.”

You really want to meet someone, try the laundromat!