Arrange Me A Marriage - new BBC TWO series

22 November 2007 @ 8-9pm on BBC TWO. Episode 1/5

Matchmaker Aneela Rahman gets to grips with Britain's legions of unmarried 30-somethings and aims to find them a partner using the principles of a modern Asian arranged marriage, in this new, five-part series.

Aneela – a bold, no-nonsense, Glasgow-born Asian woman in her thirties – is living proof that arranged marriages work. She's been married to husband Maqsood for around 15 years and has two children.

Throughout the series, Aneela aims to share the secrets of her success and get an inexplicably unmarried – but desperate-to-be-married – Brit to the altar.

She believes the key to successfully finding a life partner is through the principles of a modern arranged marriage in which compatibility is crucial. Only by matching up class, education, family background, life goals and earnings will it succeed.

Aneela gives each person's friends and family just four weeks to network on behalf of the singles and find them some potential suitors – one of whom they will meet at an Asian-style introduction party.

Thirty-three-year-old Lexi Proud features in this week's opening episode. At the age of 16, Lexi had already left school and her home in the north-east.

By the age of 24, she was living in London and had worked her way up through the ranks of commercial airline hospitality to her current position as director of cabin crew for a private aviation firm.

With a hectic career and social life, Lexi's too busy to meet anyone and has grown tired of dating men she meets in posh bars. Aneela believes strongly that Lexi's pattern of failed relationships is because she's dated outside of her class – something Lexi strongly disagrees with.

But Lexi's network is made up of friends from two distinct parts of her life – the past and the present. Can both parts work together to find her someone, and will he tick all the boxes on Aneela's list of criteria for compatibility?