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ABC has made a date for the three-hour Season 24 premiere of The Bachelor. The scrum to land airline pilot Peter Weber will begin at 8 PM Monday, January 6. Watch the new promo with the once-jilted but oh-so-eligible Weber below. Here is the network’s logline for the reality staple’s latest cycle: Weber flew into the…

Amazon has urged producers to bring it more international non-scripted formats on the back of unveiling The Bachelor in Japan and Hunted in Italy. International content chiefs James Farrell and Georgia Brown opened up about what the SVOD service is looking for outside of the U.S. at a Deadline-moderated keynote at Mipc…

Peter Weber, star of the upcoming season of ABC’s The Bachelor, suffered a facial injury Monday on a golf course in Costa Rica, where the series began taping last month, Deadline has confirmed. Sources close to the production say the reality TV star already is back to dating for the show. Weber, who was announced as…

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…

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…