A few television seasons ago Mike Fleiss, creator and producer of "The Bachelor," believed the show was "winding down." No more magazine covers on The Bachelor and his rose-draped choices, very little buzz except among the dwindling number of rabid fans.
The numbers are no longer dwindling; the magazines are hungry again for "Bachelor" news; and in its 17th iteration (counting "Bachelorette" editions) ABC's longest-running reality series is an indisputable hit again.
The show is up about 2.5 million viewers from last season, and with more than 11 million viewers a week, it is reaching its biggest audience in five years. - read the full story.
The article attributes the surge to bachelor, Jason Mesnick and the back story about how he'd been previously rejected as one of the final two contestants on an edition of The Bachlorette.
But why?
because it’s entertaining. In my office, not Greys, no Desperate, not American Idol.. The Bachelor is the watercooler show now.
the bachelor can thank Dancing with the Stars for reintroducing it to a new and its past crowd
Re my post on the Sunday night ratings: Big shot industry movers and shakers – this one was in the Atlantic, the one indicated by this post is the NY Times ( who also featured ” Bonaduce” and ” Strange Love” a year or so sgo)- are saying reality and variety ( like leno, SNL specials) are here to stay; scripted DOA nowadays. I imagine Bachelor, Biggest Loser, Wife Swap etc ARE the watercooler shows in the DVR -Itune age when nobody watches TV the same time anymore. It’s not just Internet, Wired mag-stylr hype: the scripted net show, with the possible exceptionn of procedurals, are almost too risky to even do pilots for anymore. Interesting times for media people. The milch cow/sitting on a gold mine era for the nets seems as over as the Cretaceous period.
Good for ABC
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I think the CBS Monday night Bachlor is a fall from grace show. The man has nothing to offer but a goofy smile. He asks for honest candid, communication, yet I have yet to hear what happened to his 1st marriage.
I’d rather live single then stand in line waiting for a rose to show I was in the runner’s up circle( is this a horse race, to win the roses?)I thuougt women had moved up in self esteem.
Now, last night’s episode, he sleeps with the remaining three female contenders(Who is he the King of Arabia, selecting his harem?) Maybe if he sleeps with them, he’ll know which he thinks would make a good wife: Give me a freaken break!!
I am so glad that Julie got out; that gal has got class, and a spiritual depth, that the bachlor would never appreciate even if he lived two more lfetimes!
I wish she would have told him from the 2nd date, ” Listen, when you get through sorting through the left overs, give me a ring.”
Yea, Julie! You’re the real winner!
Bachlor needs to grow up.
To the reamining two fillies, I wish you luck.
Mystic Silks
Still can’t understand why people even still watch this show. Monday Nights are better off watching Raw where the smack talk is 100% entertaining.
Mysticsilks, give us a break! LMAO!! The Bachelor airs Monday’s on ABC, not CBS. You should at least know which network is benefiting the most from the additional 2.5 million viewers on Monday nights. After all, you are one of the emotionally invested viewers that are watching that “fall from grace” show. I’ll bet NBC sure wishes Heroes, a show that has actually fallen from grace, had those additional 2.5 million viewers. It will be interesting to see the number of live viewers who bail on Heroes when Dancing with the Stars returns to the line up. I’m guessing at least another million if not more. Fugitives is proving to be another poorly written volume of Heroes, so there’s no way to know for sure, it could be an even higher number.