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- 11. Finale and After the Final Rose Mar 25, 2024
- Joey's final two women meet his family; Joey sit down with Jesse in front of a live studio audience.
- 10. The Women Tell All Mar 18, 2024
- The 16 women reunite with Joey and each other for the first time since filming.
- 9. S28 E9 Mar 11, 2024
- Joey has his overnight dates with each of his final three women.
The Bachelor is an American dating and relationship reality television series that debuted on March 25, 2002, on ABC. For its first 25 seasons, the show was hosted by Chris Harrison.
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- The Bachelor (American TV series) season 25 - Wikipedia
The Bachelor (American TV series) season 25. The...
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As of March 25, 2024, 297 episodes of The Bachelor have...
- The Bachelor (American TV series) season 27 - Wikipedia
The season was delayed by three weeks from its standard...
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The twenty-sixth season of The Bachelor premiered on January...
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- “The Bachelor” Was A Second Shot at “Who Wants to Marry A Millionaire?”
- Picking The Perfect Bachelor
- Casting The Leading Ladies
- But ABC’s “The Bachelor” Was A “Far Cry” from The Original Idea
- Real-Life Disney Tale Meets Reality TV
- “It Was Like We Went to War Together”
- The Drama Was Real…The Timeline For Love? Not So Much
- Sex Was Handled Differently
- ABC Needed A Hit — and “The Bachelor” Delivered
- The “Experiment” Has Evolved
“Bachelor” creator Mike Fleiss had just wrapped “Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire?” and was the hottest name in reality TV. Per The Huffington Post, the series was essentially a “beauty pageant in which women competed for the prize of marriage”…to a faceless millionaire whom the winning woman wouldn’t see until she said “I do” at the alter. Underst...
“The Bachelor” set out to avoid the “pitfalls” that plagued “Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire?,” including having a more thorough vetting process – and an arguably better leading man. “Season 1 in retrospect was all about validating the premise. We attempted to make the notion of finding a life partner on television, we attempted to normalize that,...
Actress LaNease Adams was dating comedian Bill Maher at the time when casting director Sam Rhima reached out to her about “The Bachelor.” Adams had done “little dating shows” like “Change of Heart” prior to “The Bachelor,” and was looking to further kick off her Hollywood career. “I love Bill, we’re still good friends but he’s still a rolling stone...
Showrunner Fleiss had originally sold the concept of “The Bachelor” to ABC as a luxury dating series that took place on a plane. Yes, a plane. “We were supposed to travel around the world,” producer Carbone said of the six-week series. “It was a far cry from what the show ended up being.” Carbone was tasked with bringing “The Bachelor” back down to...
Pushing the idea of an “ABC Mickey Mouse love story” home, Carbone and “The Bachelor” producers set out to find the perfect storybook castle for the modern fairytale to take place. That, in Los Angeles speak, means Malibu mansion. “We were looking all over town and when Mike saw the location of the original ‘Bachelor’ mansion, it was done,” Carbone...
“We were selling a fantasy,” Carbone summed up. “In those early seasons, we weren’t really concentrating on establishing a ‘villain.'” As Adams described, the 25 women vied for the attentions of one man, Michel, but began to obsess over him due to the isolating element of production. The first rose ceremony was “shocking and wild and scary,” accord...
Carbone admitted that the first season had a “much stricter format” to find love. “It felt evolutionary in terms of a relationship,” he said. “When we were setting up the show, we were going, like, ‘Do you go on an overnight date with your girlfriend before you meet the parents, or after you meet the parents?’ We ended up that in order to get on a ...
Due to the “natural” timeline of relationship progression, Adams revealed that her smooch with Michel led to her fellow constants giving her “hell” for moving too fast. Today, the show is “completely different” in her eyes. “Now they’re kissing at the first meeting, before you even have a rose ceremony they’re kissing each other. But back then, it ...
According to Carbone, ABC was in a tough place pre-“Bachelor” in 2002. “If I’m not mistaken, right around this time ABC also debuted shows like ‘Cop Rock’ which was a short-lived Steven Bochco musical cop show. I’m not making this up,” Carbone said. “But what was immediately clear after Season 1 was just how valuable the franchise was to ABC.” Carb...
In 20 years, “The Bachelor” no doubt has had many pivots, reckonings, and so-called awakenings. The evolution was expected, though, according to Carbone. “In all candor, I believe that it has gone too far now. I believe there is a layer of artifice that the audience not only is aware of but is accepting of, and expecting it for a more dynamic and e...