Dates

23min

Drama

Dates is a British television romantic drama series created by Bryan Elsley, who also created Skins, which first aired on Channel 4 on 10 June 2013, at 22:00, as part of its "Mating Season" programming, illustrating a series of first dates between online dating service users. The show's target audience is "ABC1".

Episodes

Cast

David and Mia

1. David and Mia

23min

10th Jun 2013

Northern lorry driver David arrives at a restaurant to meet Celeste with whom he has arranged a date via the Internet. 'Celeste' arrives but is actually called Mia and proceeds to be offensive to him and the waitress. She eventually drops her guard and starts to get on with David but whilst he talks about himself and his late wife, she is enigmatic and leaves without telling him. He catches up with her and they kiss before she flees in a taxi.

Jenny and Nick

2. Jenny and Nick

23min

11th Jun 2013

Jenny is a lonely primary school teacher recovering from a disastrous broken relationship. Nick is a city boy richly endowed with both cash and secrets. On their first date they find out everything there is to know about each other, and knowing everything can be a dangerous and unpredictable business.

Mia and Stephen

3. Mia and Stephen

23min

12th Jun 2013

Mia is putting herself around town. Stephen is a disenchanted surgeon with a surfeit of self-regard who doesn't know what he is looking for. When Mia gets under his skin, he realises that there might be more to himself than good looks and a high-flying career.

Erica and Kate

4. Erica and Kate

23min

18th Jun 2013

Erica is a young lesbian who can't pluck up the courage to tell her traditional Chinese family who she really is. But when she meets enigmatic Kate, she realises she can't hide forever.

David and Ellie

5. David and Ellie

23min

19th Jun 2013

David is trying to put Mia behind him, but meeting Ellie is not the solution he's looking for. She's far too young, honest and insightful, and has some truths to tell he'd rather not hear.

Erica and Callum

6. Erica and Callum

23min

25th Jun 2013

Coming out to her brother hasn't gone well for Erica. He has reacted by setting her up on an internet date with garrulous, unmarriable Scotsman Callum. The date starts badly and quickly becomes disastrous, but somehow a weird kinship emerges.

Stephen and Mia

7. Stephen and Mia

23min

26th Jun 2013

Stephen is waiting for Mia to turn up for a naughty afternoon in a London hotel but soon begins to wonder if he's been stood up.

Jenny and Christian

8. Jenny and Christian

23min

2nd Jul 2013

Jenny has decided to give online dating one last try. After she meets Christian it looks like her prayers have been answered.

Mia and David

9. Mia and David

23min

6th Aug 2015

Mia feels stuck in the difficult position of actually being in a relationship with David. As she is about to meet his children for the first time, events take an awkward turn and she is forced to finally confront the gap in her life which she is attempting to fill.

First air date

10th Jun 2013

Last air date

6th Aug 2015

Status

Ended

Type

Scripted

Original language

en

Networks