It’s the tip of an period at The Bachelor.
The franchise’s founding father, collection creator Mike Fleiss, is exiting the ABC actuality juggernaut after 21 years, TVLine has confirmed. Taking up showrunning duties on the mothership — which wrapped its twenty seventh season on Monday (read recap) — shall be Bachelor vets Claire Freeland, Jason Ehrlich and Bennett Graebner.
“I need to thank [Warner Bros. Television] and ABC for 21 extraordinary years,” Fleiss stated in an announcement. “They’ve discovered the right inventive staff for me to entrust The Bachelor franchise and preserve this lightening in a bottle daring and transferring ahead. Let the journey proceed.”
No rationalization was given for Fleiss’ departure. Reps for ABC and Warner Bros. Tv declined remark.
Usually amongst ABC’s most dependable performers, The Bachelor this season is averaging 3.7 million complete viewers and a 0.8 demo score (with Stay+7 playback) — off 18% and 27% from final yr and down a major 43% and 56% from simply three years in the past. Out of all of the leisure packages ABC has aired this TV season, it ranks nineteenth in complete viewers (besting solely Not Useless But, The Goldbergs, Residence Economics, The Chase and The Father or mother Take a look at), whereas within the demo it ties for No. 3 (behind Gray’s Anatomy and American Idol).
