Social Entertainment / TV

First Dates

2013 · 25 seasons · 50m per episode · Reality

Interactive dating experiment in which real dates are filmed, and then viewers get the chance to apply to date the unsuccessful participants the following week.

Seasons

• Season 1 — 6 episodes (June 20, 2013)
• Season 2 — 8 episodes (February 12, 2014)
• Season 3 — 9 episodes (March 6, 2015)
• Season 4 — 16 episodes (September 10, 2015)
• Season 5 — 4 episodes (January 15, 2016)
• Season 6 — 6 episodes (March 15, 2016)
• Season 7 — 17 episodes (August 9, 2016)
• Season 8 — 13 episodes (April 18, 2017)
• Season 9 — 13 episodes (September 18, 2017)
• Season 10 — 10 episodes (April 4, 2018)
• Season 11 — 9 episodes (October 29, 2018)
• Season 12 — 10 episodes (April 16, 2019)
• Season 13 — 7 episodes (November 12, 2019)
• Season 14 — 5 episodes (February 20, 2020)
• Season 15 — 10 episodes (October 1, 2020)
• Season 16 — 6 episodes (January 19, 2021)
• Season 17 — 5 episodes (September 6, 2021)
• Season 18 — 13 episodes (January 6, 2022)
• Season 19 — 6 episodes (July 21, 2022)
• Series 20 — 5 episodes (April 17, 2023)
• Series 21 — 6 episodes (January 2, 2024)
• Series 22 — 9 episodes (August 6, 2024)
• Series 23 — 6 episodes (February 3, 2025)
• Series 24 — 9 episodes (July 4, 2025)
• Series 25 — 9 episodes (April 10, 2026)

Cast

• Fred Sirieix as Himself - Maître d'
• Merlin Griffiths as Himself - Bartender
• Cici Coleman as Herself - Waitress
• Sam Conrad as Himself - Waiter

Details

Created by

Ana de Moraes

First aired

June 20, 2013

Episodes

217

Genres

Reality

Network

Channel 4 and Channel 4 (Online)

Status

Returning Series

TMDB score

6.8 / 10 from 26 votes