

In March, ABC announced that it would halt production on the new season of The Bachelorette starring Clare Crawley (a big “who?” from Juan Pablo Galavis’s Season 18 of The Bachelor, as well as Season 1 and 2 of Bachelor in Paradise, and 2018’s Bachelor Winter Games) amidst the pandemic. It was the most ethical decision, but also a surprising one—The Bachelor franchise is so massive, there’s almost always a flagship show or a new spin-off airing at any point in the year—so canceling The Bachelorette would mean a few weeks of silence for Bachelor Nation. Of course, the network has come up with a solution: glorified re-runs, repackaged as a limited series.