Take Me Out is a television dating game show, hosted by Paddy McGuinness, that started airing on ITV1 in the United Kingdom and TV3 Ireland on 2 January 2010. The pilot episode was for Channel 4 in 2009. It is based on the original Australian TV show; Taken Out. In September 2010, Irish broadcaster TV3 started broadcating an Irish version of the show. The series is produced by Talkback Thames for ITV. The first series was filmed at Granada Television's Granada Studios in Manchester. Due to the success of the first series, the second series was filmed at The Maidstone Studios in Maidstone, Kent which offered increased space and capacity for audience members.[1] A third series began broadcasting on 7 January 2012