Gay, Straight or Taken To Air on Lifetime
Gay, Straight or Taken To Air on Lifetime by Roxanne McDonald
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The promos claim that it’s a “new” kind of dating show, but… |
Lifetime is running ads for the upcoming dating/ real-ationship show, “Gay, Straight, or Taken,” with the claim that it will be a “new” kind of dating game. However, it’s not all that new—conceptually or otherwise.
First, there was the then-unique but short-lived “Playing It Straight,” wherein one female (Jackie in the U.S., Zoe in the UK) dated a group of men, all of who were “posing” as
heteros. She had to then eliminate one man a week until she ended up with her chosen man, whom she had hopefully correctly inferred was straight.
Next, in an even more dynamic version, “Boy Meets Boy,” a man must decide by process of elimination and keen discernment which of his group of suitors is gay. As Blurred Reality recaps, out of fifteen men to start, seven were straight and eight were gay.
And finally, while Lifetime does not disclose in the promos whether they are borrowing the concept, The same show with the same title is evidently already in the works elsewhere: that is, also according to Blurred…, “The UK’s ITV is planning Gay, Straight, or Taken, in which ‘three contestants—gay or straight—will be sent out on dates with three potential partners, one of whom will be gay, one straight and one married. They will then be asked to decide which is which…’”
It doesn’t matter, I guess that the adjective “new” is tossed about so recklessly by an otherwise quite responsible network. Maybe it was an oversight. Maybe it will be a new version of dating shows or even of—Lord help us—reality TV.
Only time and repeated viewings will tell. Then I will, you can be sure, tell you.
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