Channel Seven has announced that Ada Nicodemou will front its reality show Please Marry My Boy when series two of the popular dating programme returns.

“This is such a lovely show with a great heart,” she says. “It’s warm and fuzzy feel-good TV, and in a time when we are so often bombarded with bad news, it’s a series everyone can cheer for.”

Please Marry My Boy offers three Australian mums the chance to find their unlucky-in-love sons a mate. The women take charge of every aspect of the courtship process with cameras in tow.

Beginning with the speed date selection process, the mums will narrow a field of prospective partners from 10 to three with the successful girls then invited into the family home. Each week the girls must successfully master a challenge designed by their suitor’s mum in order to secure a date with their man.

Averaging one million viewers last year, Director of Network Production Brad Lyons predicts audiences will be swept up in the chase once again. “We have some surprises in store for our singles this year as well as fans, and we have a great mix of people on the lookout for love,” he says. “I think viewers will be smitten.”

Please Marry My Boy is an original ITV Studios format produced locally by ITV Studios Australia. Executive Producer for Channel Seven is Paul Melville. Executive producer for ITVS Australia is Lauren Rudd.