ABC Pauses The Bachelorette , No New Season Airing This Summer – TVLine
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The Bachelorette will not be welcoming new suitors to the mansion this summer.
The ABC reality franchise is pausing its female-centric spinoff and won’t be airing a Summer 2025 season. New seasons have historically aired in the summer after a Bachelorette has been chosen from the pool of contestants on the most recent season of The Bachelor.
According to our sister site Deadline, which broke the news, The Bachelorette has not been cancelled, and it could possibly return later in 2025. A reason for the skipped summer cycle, however, has not been made clear.
The Bachelorette‘s latest run ended last year with an emotional twist after Jenn Tran decided to give Devin Strader her final rose and, in a Bachelorette first, was the one who proposed to him. (Read full recap.) The pair got engaged, only for fans to learn that Strader later broke things off in a phone call. Tran had to relive the pain of the whole affair during the After the Final Rose live reunion, in what TVLine’s Dave Nemetz called an “exercise in needless cruelty.”
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The Bachelor premiered in March 2002 and is currently airing Season 29 episodes — centered on one of Tran’s exes, Grant Ellis — on Mondays at 8/7c on ABC. The Bachelorette made its subsequent debut in January 2003, and has aired 21 seasons so far. The dating franchise has inspired other offshoots, including Bachelor Pad, which premiered in August 2010 and eventually evolved into Bachelor in Paradise in 2014; the spinoff has aired nine seasons. Most recently, ABC debuted The Golden Bachelor/Bachelorette, each having aired its freshman run.
The Bachelorette’s most recent cycle, which aired in July and August 2024, averaged 2.5 million total viewers and a 0.4 demo rating (in Live+Same Day), matching its Summer 2023 numbers.
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let this be the beginning of all this horrid nonsense tv.
I am really annoyed Bachelor and Bachelorette doesn’t air in Denmark anymore
Loved watching it
They should take some time off and reboot. Both shows are getting really hard to watch. I could take a Bachelor in Paradise this summer though. The last one was the first one I watched, and it was hilarious.
The series within the franchise that they should “pause” — actually end — are the ridiculous Golden ones. The first Golden Bachelor was a conman and a creep. The first Golden Bachelorette was a better show but still only proved that forcing a proposal on seniors is not a healthy thing to do. Only the very rich — like the somewhat creepy Chock in the Golden Bachelorette — can find a way to make relocation work.
Stick to the originals is my advice to the producers. And don’t be afraid to throw in some new wrinkles.
The Golden series ratings tanked so it’s possible that it won’t until.
The issue is there are too many of them. Rest and reboot.
The franchise is old people are tired of the crap week after week. I would cancel entire franchise. Reality is tired Go back to comedies and drama
My friends and I love The Bachelorette! Please bring it back! We really enjoy the entire Bachelor franchise! Plan our week around the shoe, have parties!
Please do not take this social experiment that has had so much success away from us! Boo to whomever came up with this idea! The public is speaking..please listen!
Maybe if they’d actually take more risks like having an openly Queer Season or something they’d find more variety and get the refresh they’d want to keep the Franchise active and thriving… But I guess their Contestants only feel safe and secure to Come Out AFTER being on the Show and not actually on it…. DO An LGBTQIA+ SEASON! DO IT! I dare you, you cowards.
And if an LGB season were to flop, would the community take responsibility for not viewing?
We hate when they recycle the contestants. It simply is not exciting. It’s like watching a rerun. Maybe let the contestants reapply to be on the season, but, the lead needs to be a NEW FACE!
Hoping this is a sign that heterosexuality is on it’s way out.
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