Married at First Sight: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Married at First Sight, the extreme social experiment where four couples will meet for the very first time on their wedding day. Three top relationship experts are controlling this radical experiment involving eight Aussie singles, using a mix of neuroscience and psychology to try to create four perfect matches. Relationship psychologist John Aiken has interviewed single applicants across the nation and built a detailed personal profile for each one. Neuropsychotherapist Dr Trisha Stratford compiled the detailed neurological profiles. And psychologist Sabina Read met the applicants in their own environment to prepare to pair them with the most suitable partners. These four extremely brave and hopeful couples will face the most terrifying wedding imaginable – tying the knot with someone they have never laid eyes on.

Series details

• Title: Married at First Sight
• Format: Reality
• Language: English
• Genres: Romance
• Premiere date: 2015-05-18
• Status in TVmaze: Running
• Network listed by TVmaze: Nine Network
• Network country: Australia
• Typical episode runtime: 92 minutes
• TVmaze community rating: 7.5/10
• TVMaze ID: 7299
• IMDb ID: tt4771108
• TVDB ID: 295729

Cast and credited roles

• John Aiken — John Aiken
• Mel Schilling — Mel Schilling
• Trisha Stratford — Trisha Stratford
• Alessandra Rampolla — Alessandra Rampolla
• Sabina Read — Sabina Read

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2015-05-18; final listed air date 2015-06-22.
• Season 2: premiered 2016-04-04; final listed air date 2016-04-27.
• Season 3: premiered 2016-08-29; final listed air date 2016-09-13.
• Season 4: premiered 2017-01-30; final listed air date 2017-04-03; episode order: 29.
• Season 5: premiered 2018-01-29; final listed air date 2018-03-21; episode order: 32.
• Season 6: premiered 2019-01-28; final listed air date 2019-04-08; episode order: 41.
• Season 7: premiered 2020-02-03; final listed air date 2021-02-01; episode order: 36.
• Season 8: premiered 2021-02-22; final listed air date 2021-04-18; episode order: 32.
• Season 9: premiered 2022-01-31; final listed air date 2022-04-04; episode order: 37.
• Season 10: premiered 2023-01-30; final listed air date 2023-04-03; episode order: 36.
• Season 11: premiered 2024-01-29; final listed air date 2024-04-08; episode order: 38.
• Season 12: premiered 2025-01-27; final listed air date 2025-04-07; episode order: 40.
• Season 13: premiered 2026-02-02; final listed air date 2026-04-13.

Source and licence

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