ABC Fall Schedule: ‘Bachelor in Paradise’ Takes ‘Dancing With the Stars’ Slot, Will Air Four Hours Weekly
variety.comJennifer Maas TV Business WriterABC set its fall 2022 schedule Tuesday, revealing summer staple “Bachelor in Paradise” will be taking over the longtime Monday home of “Dancing With the Stars” as that series moves to Disney+.
The “Bachelor” spinoff will also be airing on Tuesdays, marking four full hours of the dating show per week on ABC’s fall primetime slate.Additionally, ABC has ordered “Celebrity Jeopardy!” to pair with “Celebrity Wheel of Fortune” on Sunday nights; given Niecy Nash-Betts’ “Rookie” spinoff the “BiP” lead-out on Tuesdays; swapped in “Abbott Elementary” on the Wednesday fall comedy block; and set Hilary Swank’s new drama “Alaska” as the 10 p.m.
show behind “Station 19” and “Grey’s Anatomy” on Thursdays. CLICK HERE to follow Variety’s coverage of Upfronts 2022“‘The Bachelor’ franchise has long had a presence on Monday and Tuesday nights, so we know the audience likes watching it on those nights,” Craig Erwich, president of Hulu Originals & ABC Entertainment, told Variety Tuesday ahead of the schedule’s release. “‘Bachelor in Paradise’ has a very unique format in that it’s such a big tent for so many characters and storylines that it is easily expands across connected programing.
So even just creatively, which is obviously the most important consideration, we think that is going to be really fun for the viewers to have watch these things over the course of the two nights — and not just watch them, but talk about them. ‘Bachelor in Paradise’ is one of our most social shows, in terms of conversation, people just love to watch, discuss, and then kind of watch again.
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