The BBC’s new dating show Stranded on Honeymoon Island sees Davina McCall play matchmaker to a group of singletons.

But as the first episode aired on BBC One on Wednesday, viewers dubbed it a bit too similar to Channel 4’s hugely popular Married at First Sight – which might make sense, given that the show is produced by the same company.

The new dating show sees a group of hopefully singletons first meet at a speed-dating event in civilisation, where they get to chat, flirt and feel each other out before they’re shipped off to a tropical island.

There, the daters are paired up and walk down the aisle in a series of not-legally-binding weddings on a tropical jetty. Then it’s onto a catamaran, from which they take a literal plunge into the sea and their new love lives.

Once they’ve swum

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