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The couple met on a episode of Blind Date, when Alex picked Sue from a line-up of three women. It seems they had a lorra lorra laughs.

Though ITV dropped the peerless Blind Date back in , its year run and dismal ratings decline cast a long shadow. There have few attempts to either update the format or introduce another dating series until now — hence the interest in Dating in the Dark, a reality series starting this Wednesday on Virgin’s Living channel, which brings together six single people looking for love. The twist is that group meetings and dates all take place in pitch blackness.

The dating couples are at the end given a second glimpse of each other, and must decide whether to walk away or continue. Devised by John de Mol, the TV tycoon who invented Big Brother, the format borrows a crucial element of Blind Date, in which the verbal flirting took place blind – a screen separated the three hopefuls from their questioner. In Dating in the Dark, infra-red cameras produce grainy black and white footage of the couples as they grope towards each other in the dark.

Claudia Rosencrantz, director of television at Virgin Television, says commissioning it was “a no-brainer” when De Mol himself called on her. Paul Jackson, the former ITV executive who was overseeing Blind Date when it was axed, notes: “Most countries have at least one successful dating show. It really is time for another go. If it strikes a chord with Living’s youngish and female audience, the main channels will, he’s convinced, rush back into dating shows again.