Nine’s latest dating show My Mum Your Dad is set to premiere Monday, November 7, at 7.30pm on Channel Nine and 9Now.
Kate Langbroek presents the series about single parents looking for love the second time around. What they don’t know is their adult children are secretly guiding them through the perils of modern dating.
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While this group of mums and dads are gathered at a luxury retreat, their kids have taken up residence in a remote bunker to watch their parents’ every move. Not only do they have their parents under surveillance, they also have a big hand in who they date as their parents navigate new territory in the hope of finding their “forever” match.
Kate Langbroek
The kids will go through different challenges for the power to determine who their parents go on a date with, and what they do on the date. These challenges involve hearing cringeworthy confessions about their parents, enduring spicy food and even an ice bath.
Posing as “dating consultants”, the winners of the challenges will decide which parent gets to go on a date with theirs, and will also be spying on the date – sometimes inconspicuously attending the date, or manipulating what their parents do on the date, like choosing the activity or controlling it through a third party on the date.
Speaking to Mediaweek about the show, Nine Network executive producer John Walsh said that with double to people to work with, finding the cast was double the effort.
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“There were two casting calls that went out: one for parents interested in dating and looking for love the second time around, and then there was a casting call more directed at the kids, saying if you’ve got a single parent looking for love, would you like to nominate them? At that stage, that’s all the kids thought they were doing, nominating their parents.
“We interviewed them together and we interviewed them separately to assess them as talent. It was tricky, because we needed them both to be strong. We’re very lucky with the cast we landed with.”