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ABC and Fox led the pack Monday night in primetime as The Bachelor and 9-1-1: Lone Star returned for new episodes. Fresh off their premieres last week, The Bachelor and Lone Star were respectively the night’s highest-rated and most-watched programs. The Bachelor topped the demo, earning a 0.7 in adults 18-49 and 3.07…

The Bachelor returned to ABC for its Season 26 premiere in a big way, topping the first Monday night of the New Year. The ABC competition series was the night’s highest-rated program, per fast affiliates, earning a 0.9 in the 18-49 demo and 3.75 million viewers.  The Bachelor saw Clayton Echard take the spotlight…

Like with the rest of the TV business, 2021 was challenging for reality competition series as they adjusted to production amid a pandemic. No series has been harder to pull off in a pandemic than CBS' globetrotting The Amazing Race, which was sidelined the longest by Covid and did not air an installment in 2021; its…

It’s official — following an emotional exit from Michelle's season of The Bachelorette, Clayton Echard will step into the role of The Bachelor for the show's upcoming 26th season, kicking off the series' landmark 20th year.  Clayton Echard, who was first introduced as one of Michelle Young's suitors on the current…

Netflix’s Coming Out Colton has dropped its first trailer featuring The Bachelor‘s Colton Underwood ahead of the show’s premiere on Dec. 3. The six-episode series follows Underwood as he embarks on a journey of self-discovery coming out as a gay man. He also addresses his past and embraces his place in the LGBTQ…

ABC is looking ahead to 2022 with a slew of premiere dates for a reality staple, the swan song of a popular sitcom, two new series and several other returning shows. One of the rookies, workplace comedy Abbott Elementary, will get an early-season bow at 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, December 7. The show will move to its regular…

Jesse Palmer, who was the fifth Bachelor in 2004, is returning to the ABC reality franchise as host for the upcoming 26th season, set to air in early 2022. The assignment is expanding Palmer’s responsibilities at Disney. An ESPN analyst since 2007, he has also signed an extension and will continue his studio role with…

Series like Grey’s Anatomy, Sex Education and The Bachelor are making waves on social media, even before they touchdown this fall for their latest iterations. On Monday, Twitter revealed the top ten most-tweeted about series. From May 31, 2021 to August 9, 2021 Succession and This Is Us took the ninth and tenth…

After months of controversy over racism allegations against longtime host Chris Harrison, which led to Harrison’s departure from the ABC franchise, the first Black Bachelorette has penned an op-ed in New York magazine. Rachel Lindsay called the piece “an opportunity to tell my story and share my experience with the Bac…

On Monday’s episode of The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon roasted The Bachelor’s Chris Harrison, who has officially exited the reality franchise after 19 years as its host, as Deadline told you first. Right now, Fallon joked, Harrison is “editing his resume like, ‘Matchmaker with 19 years experience and three successful…

It’s officially the end of an era for one of television’s most enduring — and prolific — reality franchises. Following Deadline’s report this morning that Chris Harrison has left ABC’s The Bachelor after reaching a settlement with producer Warner Horizon, Harrison posted a farewell message on his social media…

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…