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Imagine the most irritating thing ever. No, worse than Justin Lee Collins screaming The Birdy Song in your ear from close range. No, worse than being stuck in a lift with Ainsley Harriot and Fearne Cotton.

If you've managed to imagine something worse than the above, then you're probably in the ball park of new ITV show, Take Me Out which will star Paddy McGuinness and a hoarde of randy mouth breathers all stood around erect or dripping respectively.

Since the demise of Blind Date, ITV have clearly been missing the thrill of watching the initial stages of people mating. They tried out Holly and Fearne Go Dating or whatever it was called, until someone pointed out that the most unarousing thing on earth is Holly and Fearne gurning at you with their rubber mask flexifaces.

To step into the shoes of Blind Date, they've hired Rent-a-Shite, Paddy McGuinnes, to relive his days of repeating the same things over and over to women in short skirts in Bolton's Ikon nightclub in a new dating show that may well fulfil the potential of irritating.

The basic premise is this: McGuinness will try to match a single man with one of 30 women from across the UK. The man enters the studio and announces just his name, age and where he is from. Each of the girls has a light in front of them, and if they decide the man is not for them, they switch it off. The women continue to rule themselves in or out as the suitor reveals more of his personality, before one is eventually chosen to go on a date.

Read that back. Paddy McGuinness helping you to find love. It's like asking Abu Hamsa to pick your nose for you.

Now, you may remember Take Me Out being piloted last year for Channel 4. They called it the “cattle market of dating shows”. Now it's transferred to ITV, it'll be more like the STD clinic of television.

[via BroadcastNow]