Married at First Sight UK to skip Friday and Saturday, returns Oct 5

Married at First Sight UK will not air new episodes on Friday and Saturday as the E4 reality series takes a scheduled 48 hour break, the broadcaster confirmed. The 10th series pauses over the weekend and returns on Sunday, October 5 at 9pm, with episodes to be shown Sundays through Thursdays for the remainder of the run.

E4 said the programme will once again run five nights a week. The temporary gap follows the series' inaugural Commitment Ceremony earlier this week, which marked the first departure of a participant in this season. The returned schedule resumes the weekday rhythm viewers have seen in previous runs, with the series airing at 9pm and a companion programme to follow on Sunday evenings. Lucinda Light will present the companion show, Its Official, this series.

Producers describe Married at First Sight UK as a reality experiment in which experts select couples from a pool of applicants and invite them to marry despite the participants never having met before. The format has typically run across multiple weeks in past seasons; earlier instalments extended for about nine weeks.

The weekend break is a planned scheduling choice rather than an unscheduled interruption,...