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…

Two of ABC’s venerable reality franchises will be returning. Dancing With the Stars has been renewed for a 28th season and The Bachelor for Season 24. Hosted by Erin Andrews and Tom Bergeron, along with judges Len Goodman and Carrie Ann Inaba, DWTS’ Season 27 closer drew 7.90 million total viewers and a 1.1/4 rating…

ABC is ready for even more “Summer Fun and Games” and dating drama this year. Along with setting a June 20 series premiere date for Reef Break and slotting several other new and returning series today, the network is expanding its slate of game shows to three nights a week and making The Bachelor franchise last all…

Tubi and Warner Bros Domestic Television Distribution are taking viewers into the way-back machine in a deal that will land the first seasons of The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, as well as more recent franchise extensions, on the streaming service. Initial seasons only of The Bachelor, which premiered in 2002, and Th…

ABC’s proposal-free Bachelor season finale-finale (2.3, 8.062M) nonetheless took the demo tiara for a second straight night on Tuesday. Part 2 of the dating show’s finale grew over its year-ago Monday finale (2.2, 7.9M) and besting closest competitor, NBC’s 9 PM This Is Us (1.8, 7.526M) by 5/10ths of a rating. Memo to…

Part 1 of ABC's protocol busting/fence hopping The Bachelor (2.2, 8.00M) season finale topped in the demo Monday with a season high and bested '18's finale in total viewers. The Good Doctor finale that followed (1.4, 7.767M)  also snagged season highs in both metrics and stood as Monday's No. 1 scripted show in total…

Colton Underwood’s collar-slipping escape from the compound of ABC’s speed-dating competition series The Bachelor (2.0 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic, 7.23 million viewers) boosted that long-running show to a season high in the demo Monday, when it shared first-place status with NBC’s singing competition The Vo…

NBC's 8-10 PM The Voice premiere (2.1 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic, 10.75 million viewers ) powered the network to an easy Monday win. The long-running singing competition's latest edition launch climbed a tenth in the demo versus the show's most recent premiere, and did 1.1 million better in total…

The two-hour season finale of NBC’s America’s Got Talent: The Champions (1.7 rating in the adults 18-49 demo, 10.53M viewers) was the most watched show on Presidents Day Monday in primetime, even in the demo but setting a season high as it wrapped its debut run. The NBC competition series split the nightly spoils with…

NBC’s America’s Got Talent: The Champions (1.7 rating in the adults 18-49 demo, 10.42 million viewers) neared its season high in viewership and matched its season-best demo number to finish as broadcast’s second highest-rated primetime program Tuesday a tick behind ABC’s steady The Bachelor (1.8, 6.20M). AGT: Champs…

ABC said on Tuesday as part of its TCA day that its competition series The Bachelor will conclude its current season with a live, two-night finale on March 11 and March 12. The pair of two-hour shows will conclude Colton Underwood's journey to find love. Underwood will join Chris Harrison and a studio audience on both…

ABC's The Bachelor (1.8 rating in the adults 18-49 demo, 6.184 million viewers) was the top choice in the ratings demo Monday, besting NBC's America's Got Talent: The Champions (1.6, 9.786M) for the first time in Live+Same Day data. AGT: Champions was top show of the night in total viewers. CBS shows saw modest…