Vivid Returns to Retro Arena With 'The Dating Game XXX'

LOS ANGELES—Director Hank Hoffman follows last year's Vivid Entertainment retro-spoof The Newlywed Game XXX with new sister send-up The Dating Game XXX, debuting on Vivid.com Tuesday and hitting DVD two weeks later, on April 22. In his comedic parody of the long-running show, an ABC TV mainstay in the “swinging '60s,” Hoffman has taken its famed sexual innuendo and double entendre a big step further. Never mind just dating; the bachelors and bachelorettes here skip right to the nookie.Michael Vegas plays engaging and charming host Tim Schlang, overseeing the proceedings with contestants Penny Pax, Bailey Blue, Ash Hollywood, Danny Wylde and Tommy Gunn.