Pretty funny how this show, or I guess more so Mike Fleiss in this situation, manipulates the ratings to fit his narrative. So the ratings from Monday night are in and it drew 3.3 million viewers and a .9 rating. Fleiss tweeted yesterday, "Thank you, #BachelorNation ! This season is one of the all-time best…" Huge ratings? So they went up .1 from ep 2, with the same overall viewership.
Ep 1 drew 3.6 million and a .9, so it had the same rating and 300k less viewers. Yet, that warrants a "huge ratings" tweet from Fleiss, who basically has no say in the day-to-day operations of the this show anymore? Of course, Fleiss could be looking at it from the fact that the .9 rating Monday night in the Adults demo was 50% better than any show that aired on network television Monday night.
The Olympic trials drew a .6 for 2nd place on the night. I just love when they try to fleece their audience with statements like this when 99% of them don't have a clue how TV ratings work. Not the most upstanding guy in the world to say the least.
We're only two episodes into The Bachelorette with Katie Thurston, and the ratings DO leave a lot to be desired. Before we try to analyze why the viewing figures are so much lower this time around, we have to kick things off with the facts. Last night's new episode drew just a 0.8 rating in the demographic, which was down slightly from the premiere. Overall, though, this season is down 30% in the demo and more than 20% in total viewers from the most-recent Bachelorette season with Clare Crawley and Tayshia Adams.
It's also down equal measures from the most-recent season of The Bachelor with Matt James and we all remember what a gong show that was. The second episode of the popular reality dating show fell to 3.2 million total viewers, which is down slightly from the first episode, according to TV Line. The outlet confirmed that the most watched show of the night was actually a rerun of "Neighborhood" that aired on CBS. Before we try to analyzewhythe viewing figures are so much lower this time around, we have to kick things off with the facts. Overall, though, this season is down 30% in the demo and more than 20% in total viewers from the most-recentBacheloretteseason with Clare Crawley and Tayshia Adams. It's also down equal measures from the most-recent season ofThe Bachelorwith Matt James and we all remember what a gong show that was.
The new season of The Bachelorette will be airing in the wake of The Bachelor's race controversy and Chris Harrison's exit as host. The premiere episode ofThe Bachelorette season 17 had to do a lot of heavy lifting. As usual, some contestants stood out way more than others - and their Instagram stats are here to prove it. Katie Thurston's season ofThe Bachelorettehas just premiered, and the fans are already following her cast of men on Instagram and turning them into social media sensations.
When Matt James' season ofThe Bachelor premiered back in January 2021, Katie Thurston was one of the standout contestants that the fans immediately liked since night one. Now, the tables have turned, and she's the one ushering in a brand-new cast of contestants into the Bachelor Nation franchise. In comparison, roughly 1.8 million people in the same demo watched Matt James' debut as the "Bachelor" lead on January 4th, with 5.2M total viewers. Thurston, who nearly quit the show after a dispute with contestant Greg Grippo, dubbed wildlife manager Blake Moynes her fiancé. Investment sales consultant Justin Glaze was the runner-up in Monday's The Bachelorette finale.
The season ender was up three tenths in rating and 17% in viewership from the latest installment's June premiere (0.9, 3.59M). Last night's show trailed behind the Season 16 finale in December by 16% in viewers, but matched in ratings. One week ahead of its season finale, "The Bachelorette" shot up over the prior week by 20% among Adults (1.2/9 vs. 1.0/7) to match its highest-rated telecast this summer in the Live+3 Day ratings. "The Bachelorette" also grew week to week by 10% in Total Viewers (4.5 million vs. 4.1 million). Based on the average combined rating of the current episodes , this season of The Bachelorette with star Thurston ranks as the least-watched season so far.
Thurston's season is the first to air after host Chris Harrison's exit from the franchise, too. Fans of this season shouldn't be discouraged just yet, as there are still a few more episodes before the show's finale, which is bound to have high ratings. The Bachelorette spent another week atop the Monday broadcast ratings, leading the networks in both the key ad demographic of adults and total viewers.
ESPN, meanwhile, scored big with its coverage of baseball's Home Run Derby, and over the weekend, meanwhile, the NBA Finals and the European soccer championship drew Sunday's biggest audiences. ABC won the Monday ratings battle easily, with the season premiere of The Bachelorette, which has Katie Thurston front row center, setting a good pace. ABC earned a 0.8 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 5 share. The second most-followed contestant from Katie Thurston's season ofThe Bachelorette is Karl Smith, a 34-year-old motivational speaker from Miami, Florida. As of this writing, Karl has 40,300 followers on his Instagram (@ksmithinspires) page.
Regardless of how popular Karl already was on social media, however, the most important thing is that he also got a rose from Katie during the premiere, and thus moved on in the competition. Since it's pretty easy to determine whether a given season is worth the watch based on the premiere episode, that's exactly what I did. From the quirky contestants to the new lead, here's my honest review of The Bachelorette season 17. But neither came close to the two million people who caught the premiere of Clare Crawley's short-lived season as the bachelorette back in October 2020. Overall, though, about 5 million watched her first episode. The Bachelorette is an American dating reality television series created for ABC by Mike Fleiss.
It is hosted by Chris Harrison and is a spin-off of The Bachelor. The series is produced by Next Entertainment and Warner Horizon Television, and revolves around a single bachelorette who starts with a pool of romantic interests from whom she is expected to select a husband. During the course of the season, the bachelorette eliminates candidates, culminating in a marriage proposal from her final selection. The participants travel to romantic and exotic locations for their adventures, and the conflicts in the series, both internal and external, stem from the elimination-style format of the show. Kate Thurston's season finale of "Bachelorette" won the ratings battle Monday night.
The CW was fifth in ratings with a 0.1 and in total viewers with 498,000. At 8, "All American" drew a 0.2 and 673,000 viewers. At 9, "The Republic of Sarah," which premiered its first episode June 14 on The CW, managed a 0.1 and 323,000 viewers. NBC and Fox tied for second in ratings, both with a 0.4 rating. Jumping up a whole point up in the ratings from Season 6, Season 3 ranks as the third most-watched season.
After postponing Jerry Ferris' proposal, Schefft's season finale was the first to air an "After the Final Rose" episode, during which she officially turned down his proposal. Katie having lower ratings than Clare is not surprising. Clare's season premiered in October, when a lot of states were still locked down and there was nothing to do but watch TV.
Katie's season premiered right as the entire country opened up. I also think in general, fall shows tend to get higher ratings than summer shows, because people tend to be out and about in the summer. According to Fox, approximately 1.3 million people tuned in for Katie's season, which was slightly down from the 1.8 million who tuned in to watch Matt James' premiere episode of The Bachelor.
An average of 433,600 viewers tuned in to watch Covid returnee Lexie Brown meet her suitors on TVNZ 2 last night, down from the 558,000 who switched on Lesina Nakhid-Schuster's first rose ceremony last year. The former reality star ended her Bachelorette season engaged to Ian McKee. It was still the most-watched and highest rated show of the night, with 11.1 million viewers and a rating of 2.7 in 18-49. This year will see two Bachelorette seasons for the first time.
The Bachelorette 2021 Michelle Young will embark on her journey to finding love this fall. Filming has already wrapped and ABC has set the premiere date for early June. And Katie recently teased she's starting "a healthy relationship." When it comes to night one on Katie Thurston's season ofThe Bachelorette, Greg Grippo is the ultimate fan-favorite contestant among Bachelor Nation. Not only did he receive Katie's first impression rose, but he also charmed his way to winning the hearts of the fans at home.
Greg is a 27-year-old marketing sales representative from Edison, New Jersey. On Instagram (@greggrippo), Greg currently has 74,500 followers. Now, the thing I'm unsure of as of this moment is HOW we get to that point.
I don't know how the final 4 shakes out just yet in terms of who goes home when, so that's the next thing I'm trying to find out. Katie being the most social media active lead we've ever had clearly will know after today what is being reported, and who knows, maybe she'll start screwing with people online because that's what she does. Whatever the case, she's with Blake, and they're engaged. This week's episode of The Bachelorette begins with a brutal, emotional gut-punch and ends with a cameraman scaring the crap out of Tayshia with a tree branch. The final four men become the final three, and there isn't even a rose ceremony. Bringing in a 1.2 rating in the demo and a total of 4.37 million viewers, The Bachelorette season ender brought ABC to the top for the first post-Olympics primetime.
As of August 9, 2021, 192 episodes of The Bachelorette have aired, including five specials, concluding the seventeenth season. On March 15, 2021, ABC renewed the series for a seventeenth and eighteenth seasons. The seventeenth season, which premiered on June 7, 2021, while the eighteenth season is scheduled to premiere on October 19, 2021.
The show suffered low ratings all season, with Thursday's finale bookending the smallest premiere audience in its history. Last night was still by far the most-watched episode of this season, which dipped as low as 360,000 viewers for one previous episode and only cleared the 500,000 viewer mark for the first time on Wednesday. ABC's "World News Tonight" finished No. 1 among total viewers, averaging 7.34 million per newscast for the week of Aug. 2. The season finale of "The Bachelorette," in which Thurston picked her soul mate, was Monday's No. 1 show, breaking the win streak for NBC, which had been No. 1 every night since July 23. One week ahead of its season finale, "The Bachelorette" shot up over the prior week by 20% among Adults (1.2/9 vs. 1.0/7).
The veteran ABC dating series returned Monday night with 3.6 million viewers and a 0.9 rating in the demo. Katie's season finale of The Bachelorette airs next week, August 9th at 8pm EST on ABC. ABC was first in ratings with a 0.6 in the advertiser-coveted demographic and second in total viewers with 2.8 million, according to preliminary Nielsen numbers.
At 8 p.m., "The Bachelorette" scored a 0.7 and 3.1 million viewers. "The Celebrity Dating Game" at 10 received a 0.4 and 2 million viewers. A dating reality show, The Bacheloretterevolves around a single woman who sifts through a large group of eligible male contestants in the hopes of finding a romantic match and, possibly, a mate. Season 17 follows 30-year-old Katie Thurston, a bank marketing manager from Lynnwood, Washington, who is an alumna of the 25th season of The Bachelor, featuring Matt James. Due to the pandemic, production on this season was moved to a resort in New Mexico and there will be 30 male contestants this time around. For season 17, Chris Harrison has been replaced by Bachelorette alums Tayshia Adams and Kaitlyn Bristowe.
Several fans took to social media to share their opinions and the majority felt that the female presence added a refreshing energy that was needed on the show. Following the premiere episode of Season 17 of The Bachelorette, ratings appear to have gone down compared to the last two seasons of the show. Overall, in its first night 115,274 fewer people watched this year's Bachelorette NZ premiere than last year's. Season two of The Bachelorette New Zealand is off to a slow start, with over 120,000 fewer viewers tuning in for last night's premiere than the first episode of season one.
The Bachelorette got a hearty 0.9 across two hours, and the season finale of The Good Doctor shot up 50% to 0.6. Chris Harrison is not hosting The Bachelorette after stepping back earlier this year. Rosenbaum and Hebert got engaged in 2011 on her season finale of The Bachelorette. They married in a televised wedding in December 2012. Fans will remember that Schefft rejected both of her suitors during her final rose ceremony. Following longtime host Chris Harrison's defense of Rachael Kirkconnell after she came under fire for attending an Old South–themed party in 2018, he said he'd be "stepping aside" from the franchise for a little bit.
Two weeks later, Chris did an interview with Good Morning America and said he'll be returning to the franchise in some capacity, but clearly that time is not now. At this point, it's a bit too early to tell who could end up as the Bachelorette. That being said,fans have noted that Katie Thurston , who is on Matt's season, would be a great contender.
And despite Mills' strong belief that choosing a Bachelor not previously seen on the franchise was still the way to go, he doesn't see that happening again anytime soon. In fact, he even teased that he thinks there might be a Bachelorette currently on our television screens every Monday night. First of all, it's important to note that ABC apparently isn't too worried about Matt James' season's ratings. In fact, ABC executive Rob Mills thinks ratings will go up like never before. "I actually think you're going to see ratings rise more exponentially than you would during previous seasons because people are going to start talking about it and word-of-mouth is going to kick in," he told Variety. However, his enthusiasm does not necessarily point to ABC choosing another person that was not previously on a Bachelor Nation show.
Usually, when the Bachelor or Bachelorette is announced, it's someone who has previously appeared on a Bachelor Nation show, allowing fans of the franchise to already have a connection with the upcoming season. That's why making Bachelorette alum Tyler Cameron's best friend Matt James the leading man for Season 25 of The Bachelorwas such a change for the franchise. Not only was he the first Black male lead cast, but he was completely new to the franchise. Sure, he had a following by association, but Matt was a fresh face for many. At NBC, "American Ninja Warrior" and "Get Out Alive with Bear Grylls" fell from last week to season lows. "Siberia" fell 14% from its previous episode two weeks ago to its series low.
Will The Bachelorette 2021 Katie Thurston meet the man of her dreams? The ABC dating show returns for season 17 and the latest Bachelorette spoilers may have come from Katie herself! The premiere episode will see Katie meeting 29 suitors — but there's also one more mystery man who will vie for her heart. And word is, it's someone familiar to Bachelor Nation.
Why did he fail so miserably when Melanie Bracewell challenged the boys to a comedy challenge? Why did he feel the need to share his defecation story with the guys? Time will tell if he survives next week's rose ceremony. Katie Thurston likely didn't intend to give away any Bachelorette spoilers. But it's no biggie, as many are poised to watch the new season on ABC regardless, just to see how replacement hosts Tayshia Adams and Kaitlyn Bristowe compare to Chris Harrison. Adams promised something "totally new," but franchise alums have been showing a lot of public support for Harrison.
