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‘The Bachelor’ Meets ‘Bridgerton?’ Why NBC Is Betting on the Regency Era For Its Modern Dating Show

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Elizabeth Wagmeister Senior CorrespondentModern dating is tough. With endless swiping, unanswered DMs and app fatigue, everyone can relate to the trials and tribulations of finding your match in 2022.

So, why not go back to the 1800’s?NBC’s new reality dating show, “The Courtship,” aims to bring chivalry back to love, while traveling to the Regency era.

The social experiment brings 20-something suitors into the romantic storybook times of Jane Austen, essentially turning frat bros into knights in shining armor with the hope of winning over the heart of the series’ heroine, Nicole Remy, a real-life single who was plucked out of a nationwide casting call and sent across the pond to star in a TV show.While “The Bachelorette” hands out roses, “The Courtship” determines who goes home with a final dance.

Rather than limos, there are carriages. And instead of filming at a venue like the Bachelor Mansion or a tropical island with bikini-clad hopefuls, the production is in the U.K.

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