WHAT’S HOT TO WATCH TODAY
I THOUGHT I’d had my fill of dance shows, but I reckon I’ll be making an exception for the new one starting tonight on Channel 4.
That’s because FLIRTY DANCING (10pm) is ultimately a dating show, and I still can’t get enough of those. Yes, fine, go ahead, laugh at me, see if I care.
Hosted by Ashley Banjo, its aim is to use dance to bring together singletons who’ve failed to find lasting love elsewhere. People such as Hannah, 30, and James, 31, two of the people Ashley hopes to pair up in this opening episode.
Each will spend four days at his east London studio, learning their half of a special routine he’s choreographed for them. But they won’t actually meet until the day of the dance itself. And even then they won’t be allowed to talk. They’ll simply do their dance, hopefully click in some kind of non-speaking manner and then go their separate ways.
Only later will each person decide if they’d like to get to know their dance partner better, based on whether or not they felt something (oh, behave yourself).
Oh, and in what I assume is intended as a gentle pop at one of the channel’s other dating shows, Hannah and James’s routine is performed to Ella Eyre’s We Don’t Have To Take
Our Clothes Off…
Also tonight, the reassuringly reliable DEATH IN PARADISE kicks off yet another run (9pm, BBC1). This time a bloke arrives at the ferry port, climbs aboard the bus to Honoré and fails to climb off again once it’s reached its destination, largely on account of the fatal knife wound he’s mysteriously picked up along the way.