At the start, the concept behind the new dating show Let’s Make a Love Scene (Channel 4) sounds complicated, though it does eventually reveal itself to be a lot of faff around one simple question: out of three options, who does one person fancy the most? The host, Ellie Taylor, who does a lot of the comedic heavy lifting, explains that this is a dating show that “does it like the movies”. It tries to find out whether you can “test sexual chemistry by faking it”, which doesn’t make much sense when you think it through. “It happens in the movies, so why not in real life?” Taylor asks, a question that, thankfully, nobody has thought to apply to Jurassic Park.
Ultimately, this is sexy cosplay on a Dinner Date platter. In this week’s first episode, a leading man has to reenact three steamy scenes from the movies with three leading ladies, and at the end of all that snogging and grinding, he picks his favourite woman for a proper date. Apparently, the leading ladies are film buffs who have definitely chosen the movies all by themselves because they like them so much, and are absolutely not just given a film containing a sex scene by the producers. They then have to perform in their own versions of those sex scenes. This week, that’s key moments from 9½ Weeks, Mr & Mrs Smith and Out of Sight, with the lucky lead, 22-year-old Lailand, who plays rugby and clearly knows how to flirt.
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