Take Me Out (American game show)

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Take Me Out is an American dating game show that was broadcast on Fox.^[1][2] It was based on the British show of the same name, which in turn was based on the original Australian show Taken Out and created based on the success of the international versions.^{[citation needed]} The show was hosted by George Lopez.^[3] It premiered on June 7, 2012, at 8:00 p.m. in Canada and the United States^[4] with ratings of 3.3 million.^[5]

Take Me Out
Genre	Dating game show
Directed by	Michael Dempsey
Presented by	George Lopez
Theme music composer	David Vanacore Eric Hester
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	8
Production
Executive producer	Jeff Apploff
Producers	Ves D’Eila Kate Killoran Dowd Chuck Stream Megan Fraher
Editors	T.J. Mahar J.D. Brimes Victor Gonzaga Tim Leavitt Mike Polito
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	42 minutes
Production company	Fremantle
Original release
Network	Fox
Release	June 7, 2012 (2012-6-7) – July 26, 2012 (2012-7-26)
Related
Taken Out (Australia) Take Me Out (UK)

On July 3, 2012, Fox announced that the show would be removed from its Thursday night timeslot and be relegated to Saturday nights, starting on July 14, 2012 to make room for Mobbed,^[6] but just three days later, following an increase in ratings over the previous episodes, Fox announced that the show would remain in its Thursday night timeslot.^[7]

Episodes

No.	Airdate	No. of couples	1	2	3	4
1	June 7, 2012	2	Brandon	John (Samantha)	Eric	Alain (Michaela)
2	June 14, 2012	3	Jesse (Debra)	Jonnie	Panos (Cournti)	Dave (Kristin)
3	June 21, 2012	2	Danny "Tsunami" (Sana)	Justice	Mikey	Evin (Leslie)
4	June 28, 2012	3	Jimmy K. (Marisa)	Phil (Kelly B.)	Aaron (Jenny)	Sebastian
5	July 5, 2012	2	Shawn	Kash (Sonja)	Michael	Davin (Kasia)
6	July 12, 2012	3	Max (Lisa)	Antonios	Casey (Larena)	Greg (Erin)
7	July 19, 2012	3	Zach (Brooke)	Scott (Crystal)	Will (Mindy)	-
8	July 26, 2012	3	Demarcus (Megan)	Tyler (Joanna)	George (Nicole W.)	-

  Yellow indicates the bachelor successfully got a date.

  Silver indicates the bachelor failed to get a date.

Ratings

No. in Series	Air date	Timeslot (EST)	18-49 (rating/share)	Viewers (millions)
1	June 7, 2012 (2012-6-7)	Thursday 8:00 P.M.	1.3/5	3.26[8]
2	June 14, 2012 (2012-6-14)		1.1/4	2.63[9]
3	June 21, 2012 (2012-6-21)		1.2/4	3.22[10]
4	June 28, 2012 (2012-6-28)		1.0/3	2.32[11]
5	July 5, 2012 (2012-7-5)		1.2/4	3.09[12]
6	July 12, 2012 (2012-7-12)		1.2/4	2.99[13]
7	July 19, 2012 (2012-7-19)		1.2/4	3.10[14]
8	July 26, 2012 (2012-7-26)		1.2/4	2.85[15]