After what has been a disastrous few years for The Bachelor Australia‘s ratings, there’s a massive hint the franchise is returning to Channel 10 in 2024.
According to TV Blackbox, Warner Brothers have been advertising for Sydney-based casting producers to work on a “returning large scale reality dating show”.
“[We were] was sent a screenshot of an ad looking for crew for a ‘returning large-scale reality dating show’. At the bottom of the post are two red roses on either side,” the article said.
The red roses are an obvious indication the casting call is Bachelor related. But the outlet speculated it could be a “misdirection”.
The ad also is also looking for workers from the end of April or the beginning of May to June.
When you take production time into consideration it looks like The Bachelor would return to screens in 2024.
Ratings for The Bachelor go from bad to worse
Rumblings The Bachelor is coming back so soon has pretty much everyone surprised. The last few seasons of the show (including The Bachelorette and The Bachelors) took an absolute tumble in the rating department.
At its peak in 2018, The Bachelor was bringing in close to one million viewers a night.
Matt Agnew’s 2019 season dwindled slightly kicking off with 828,000 metro viewers.
But the premiere of the show’s eighth season in 2020 starring Locky Gilbert had the lowest ratings for any season of The Bachelor at the time.
Nationally the show brought in 681,000 viewers.
Realising the fault of their ways, Ten shook things up by embracing a bit of diversity in 2021’s Bachelor Jimmy Nicholson.
Despite most of the country in lockdown the premiere episode just scraped into the top 20 TV shows with a paltry 482,000 people watching.
Channel Ten try to save The Bachelor franchise
The same year the groundbreaking season of The Bachelorette featuring Brooke Blurton – the first bisexual Bachelorette and Indigenous star – also wasn’t enough to bolster audience numbers.
Just 397,000 metro viewers across Australia tuned in.
The producers went back to the drawing board, put their heads together and came up with their biggest shakeup yet, The Bachelors.
Starring three suitors, Felix Von Hofe, Jed McIntosh and Thomas Malucelli, instead of one, it premiered to just 309,000 viewers – the lowest premiere in the history of the franchise.
So no, we will no accept this rose.
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