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'Shipmates' stays afloat in big sea
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — As every viewer knows, the human race is governed by two primal needs: sex and TV face-time.
This has been evident throughout television history. In the early 1950s, Bride and Groom joined couples on the air, then, having sanctified their unions with national exposure, dispatched them for their wedding nights.
With The Dating Game in the 1960s, TV played Cupid. No longer were nuptials required for the bachelors and bachelorettes. But a chaperone was.
Then, this season, TV-trysting weighed anchor. Love Cruise proved unseaworthy and sank without a trace. But far more successful has been the syndicated Shipmates — check local listings — which arranges blind dates on
board a luxury vessel and then tails them for three days and two nights to record what develops.
Sometimes it's a sea of love. Just look at Danny Matoe and Tara Cohen. They met and fell for each other on a Shipmates episode last September. At the half-hour's fade-out, they vowed to see each other even after the tape had stopped rolling.
Granted, not every Shipmates pairing has a life beyond television. Thank goodness! Far more amusing to behold is a mismatched couple on a stormy voyage. For every viewer who has stumbled in the romance department, there's enormous pleasure watching courtships take a pratfall.
Right now the romance-reality category is bloated with Blind Date, Change of Heart, Fifth Wheel and many more, as well as
Fox's prime-time Tempation Island and memories of last year's UPN shamefest Chains of Love. Even so, Shipmates is navigating a successful first season, with its audience up 30 percent since its premiere.
The reason may seem obvious. But co-creator John Tomlin said Skipmates wasn't about sex.
"I interview all the candidates," he said. "They want to meet someone."
How that happens is highly systematic: Five couples — a week's worth—are recruited for a commercial cruise, with each couple followed, night and day, by a camera team.
"We treat our show as if it were a documentary about these two people coming together for the first time," he explains. "Whether or not they get along is pretty much up to them."
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