Love on a Saturday Night

Love on a Saturday Night is a London Weekend Television produced game show that aired on ITV between 7 February and 22 May 2004. It was a replacement show for Blind Date, and lasted only two series before being axed.

Love on a Saturday Night
Genre	Dating game show
Presented by	Davina McCall
Starring	Jonathan Wilkes (on location)
Theme music composer	Ben Foster[1]
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	2
No. of episodes	10
Production
Running time	60 minutes (including commercials)
Production company	LWT
Original release
Network	ITV
Release	7 February (2004-02-07) – 22 May 2004 (2004-05-22)

The first episode, which was broadcast live, was watched by 5.1 million viewers.^[2] An episode in the second series was watched by 3.8 million viewers.^[3]

Format

The main game

Similarly to Blind Date, the main round would be based in the middle of the studio where either three men or three women (it would alternate each week) would be wearing different coloured masks and known as Mr Red/Miss Ruby, Mr Blue/Miss Sapphire, Mr Green/Miss Emerald, then the person asking the questions would be standing to one side of them with Davina.

Celebrity dating

Other features included celebrity dates. This was a chance for a member of the audience to be surprised and go on a date with a celebrity. Some of the celebrities included were: Jodie Marsh, Sam Nixon, Mark Owen, Shobna Gulati, Sally Lindsay, Richard Blackwood, Tony Blackburn, Ronan Keating, Terri Dwyer, Nicki Chapman and the members of British five-piece boy band V.

Trivia

Jonathan Wilkes' outside broadcasts were only featured in Series 1 as a member of the public uttered a profanity live on air when surprised by Wilkes and his camera crew, before the 9 o'clock watershed. Thereafter, the programme was also taped as opposed to being broadcast live.

All episodes originated from The London Studios.

Transmissions

Series	Start date	End date	Episodes
1	7 February 2004	6 March 2004	5
2	24 April 2004	22 May 2004	5