‘The ultimate dating series’: Blind Date is back – as an absolute Frankenstein’s monster of a show

‘What’s your name and where d’ya come from?’ … host Cilla Black with a Blind Date contestant back in the day. Photograph: RGR Collection/Alamy

Good news: Blind Date is returning to our screens. Weird news: it won’t be on television, you probably won’t watch it and it may not technically count as Blind Date. But let’s concentrate on the good news first.

On Monday, Disney+ announced three new unscripted TV shows. One is a sort of Made in Chelsea spin-off about parenthood, another sounds like The Kardashians except it has Wayne and Coleen Rooney in it, and the third is the return of Blind Date, which Disney calls the “ultimate dating series”.