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EXCLUSIVE: Mike Fleiss' Next Entertainment has partnered with Paperclip Ltd to produce Possessions, a scripted horror feature from writer/director Brent Cote (Tainted). While The Bachelor franchise creator-EP Fleiss previously produced films within the Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Hostel franchises, Possessions marks…

EXCLUSIVE: Just hours after the 17th season of The Bachelorette debuted, longtime host Chris Harrison has exited the romance franchise for good. Having fronted the Mike Fleiss-created The Bachelor and all its lucrative ABC spinoffs since 2002, Harrison will receive a rose of his own in the form of mid-range…

UPDATED with Warner Bros. statement: A Los Angeles judge has granted a domestic violence temporary restraining order against The Bachelor and The Bachelorette creator Mike Fleiss, court documents show. Fleiss is accused of attacking his pregnant wife, Laura Fleiss, on July 4 at their home in Hawaii. Laura Fleiss filed…

Ellen Pompeo, star of ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy, doubled down today on her lambasting of Mike Fleiss, creator and EP of ABC’s The Bachelor, and his show, responding to a commenter on her Twitter page that she “had to call it out.” That response specifically addressed the show’s racial makeup (on an earlier tweet, Pompeo…

Khloe Kardashian is furious about rumors she’s considering signing up for The Bachelorette after her recent breakup with Cleveland Cavaliers player Tristan Thompson. The Keeping Up With the Kardashians star shut down rumors she was in talks to join the ABC reality dating series after The Bachelor and Bachelorette…

The Proposal creator Mike Fleiss, after first seeming to take a not-really-our-fault stance after accusations of sexual misconduct surfaced about one of the male contestants on the ABC show, tweeted a pledge to “find ways to do better,” apparently a reference to weeding out what he called “abusive assholes” from his…

The Bachelor is looking to heat things up this winter. Mike Fleiss, the creator of the uber-popular reality dating show, took to Twitter to announce that Peter Kraus is returning to find love in the franchise spinoff The Bachelor Winter Games. Fleiss teased the big news earlier today saying, “I will be making a major…

While some in the media spent Wednesday trying to determine whether President Donald Trump is going to pull the United States out of the Paris climate accord, others were busy unearthing old tweets issued by one of the eligible bachelors of ABC’s new season of The Bachelorette – the first edition of the show to…

Top reality producer Mike Fleiss, and his production company Next Entertainment, have signed with CAA. Fleiss is creator and executive producer of ABC's long-running unscripted hit The Bachelor, which has grown into a formidable franchise via spinoff series The Bachelorette, Bachelor In Paradise, and Bachelor Pad. The…

EXCLUSIVE: From Savannah to Hollywood. George-based personal injury lawyer Jamie Casino has been one of the most pursued pieces of TV talent since becoming an overnight celebrity with his epic two-minute Super Bowl commercial that featured him wielding his sledgehammer of justice (check out the ad below). In a very…

MTV, once home of TRL, is bringing music back to its afternoon lineup, this time in the form of a singing competition series. The network has picked up Copycat, a half-hour afternoon strip from The Bachelor creator/executive producer Mike Fleiss. It features contestants battling it out onstage, trying to sound like…

EXCLUSIVE: After making his directing debut on the documentary God Bless Ozzy Osbourne, Mike Fleiss has made a deal to make his narrative directing debut on an untitled low-budget horror film. He is partnered on the project with Steven Schneider, producer of the Paranormal Activity films and Insidious. Fleiss, whose…