The question 'What do women want?' has exercised greater minds than Chris Tarrant's; Sigmund Freud himself gave up on it. He, however, was not a game-show host.

In Man O Man Tarrant, surrounded by glamorous hostesses, presides over a sublimely silly game in which ten eager males strut their stuff in front of 300 excited women, seated at tables, nightclub style, with 'computer voting pads'. Elimination rounds whittle the lads down, each loser being pushed without warning into a pool.

Some of the rounds actually involve a degree of talent or wit; compared to Singled Out (running recently on BBC 2), this is Plato's Symposium. And what do women want? To sit at tables and whoop? This cannot be the whole story. ~ Nigel Andrew