BBC Television Shakespeare production had a style referred to as "stylized realism"; the environments are suggestive of their real life counterparts, the foregrounds are broadly realistic representations, but the backgrounds tended to be more artificial; "a representational context close to the actors, with a more stylized presentation of distance." Jan Spoczynski won Designer of the Year at the 1985 Royal Television Society Awards for his work on this episode. The "Prefaces to Shakespeare" episode for "Much Ado About Nothing" was presented by Kenneth Haigh who had played Benedick in a 1976 Royal Exchange Theatre production directed by Braham Murray. The "Shakespeare in Perspective"
Much 'I Do' About Nothing dressed Blake Lively in a yellow floral bridesmaid dress designed by Ralph Lauren while Kelly Rutherford wore a custom-made Vera Wang wedding dress. Eric Daman considers Serena's Ralph Lauren bridesmaid dress as one of his eleven favorite looks from the series in a September interview for "New York Magazine". "Much 'I Do' About Nothing" was watched by 3.00 million of viewers, a series high since the Pilot. Much 'I Do' About Nothing "Much 'I Do' About Nothing" is the 18th episode of the CW television series, "Gossip Girl" as well as the series first season finale. The episode was written