WATCH: Take Me Out filming in Southport today

Take Me Out filming in Southport’s Vincent cocktail bar today.

Take Me Out the dating game show that presented by comedian Paddy McGuinness was today filming two daters in the the Vincent cocktail bar in Southport, Wednesday 26 October 2016

The show is set to be aired in the coming weeks. Directors of the show selected Southport’s number one hotel cocktail bar as the perfected location to interview contestants today.

Below ‘Ziggy’ is preparing to answer questions on his date.

Take Me Out is a dating game show presented by comedian Paddy McGuinness. Based on the Australian show Taken Out, it began airing on ITV in the United Kingdom and simulcast on TV3 in the Republic of Ireland on 2 January 2010. A pilot episode was for Channel 4 in 2009, but it was ITV who picked it up for a series. The show is produced by Thames (formerly Talkback Thames).

The first series was recorded at Granada Studios in Manchester, but has since been recorded at The Maidstone Studios in Maidstone, Kent, as it offered increased space and capacity for audience members. A Christmas celebrity special aired on 15 December 2012, featuring Matt Johnson, Keith Lemon and Joe Swash and on 20 December 2013, another special aired as part of Text Santa, featuring 30 women over 50 trying to score a date with one man over 50.

In 2012, the show introduced a spin-off show entitiled Take Me Out: The Gossip, which aired on ITV2 and was co-hosted by Zoe Hardman and Mark Wright in 2012 and 2013. It did not air in 2014, but returned in 2015 with Wright joined by new co-host Laura Jackson.

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