American Idol and The Bachelor RENEWED at ABC
American Idol and The Bachelor are being RENEWED at ABC while Roseanne spin-off The Connors is also being picked along with Shark Tank and Celebrity Jeopardy!
Nine programs have just been renewed at ABC, including the network’s high-profile reality shows American Idol and The Bachelor.
America’s Funniest Home Videos will also be back for season 34, as will Shark Tank for season 15 and Bachelor In Paradise for season nine.
Newer shows have also been picked up, including the sitcom Not Dead Yet and the game show Celebrity Jeopardy!, both of which are now getting a third season.
Roseanne spin-off The Conners, which began in 2018 after the title star of the original series was canceled, has also been renewed for season six.
Celebrity Wheel Of Fortune wraps up its new series of renewals and returns to ABC for a fourth season. Variety reports.
Cheers: Nine shows just got revamped at ABC, including the network’s high-profile reality shows American Idol and The Bachelor (pictured)
Meanwhile: News of the latest revamps, which are mostly reality and game shows, comes against the backdrop of the Hollywood writers’ strike
The news of the latest revamps, which mainly consist of reality and game shows, comes against the backdrop of Hollywood’s writers’ strike.
The Writers Guild Of America (WGA) began its strike two weeks ago after negotiations with the studios fell through, with sticking points including outstanding payments in streaming’s evolving climate, as well as staffing requirements.
While some ABC shows like Jimmy Kimmel Live! have gone dark, others like The View – which is mostly unscripted – have moved forward.
Justin Halpern, the showrunner of ABC’s bubbly sitcom Abbott Elementary, threw his support behind the WGA leading up to the current stalemate.
“We need to make writing a viable career for all people who learn this skill,” he said The cover in mid-April, after the union voted to authorize a strike in case negotiations failed to produce a satisfactory outcome.
“This business is tough enough as it is, and you can break into this business, you have to get a living wage to live in Los Angeles, one of the most expensive cities in the world, so the studios kind of eroded that asset.”
Not Dead Yet, the only sitcom in the latest collection of ABC renewals, stars Jane The Virgin’s Gina Rodriguez.
Gina plays an American journalist named Nell who moves to Britain for a man, but returns to Los Angeles on a downward spiral after the romance falls apart.
Ongoing: Roseanne spin-off The Conners (pictured), which began in 2018 after the title star of the original series was canceled, has also been renewed for season six
Sizzling: America’s Funniest Home Videos is also back for season 34, as is Shark Tank for season 15 and Bachelor In Paradise (pictured) for season nine
She takes a job as a local obituary, only to find herself haunted by the ghosts of her recently deceased subjects.
More than 20 years after its original run ended in 1997, Roseanne was revived in 2018 amid a wave of controversy over her leading lady’s support of Donald Trump.
Roseanne Barr, who also created the main character, was sensationally fired in late 2018 over a tweet in which she described black Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett as, “muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby.”
Her character was killed off, but the remaining cast was kept and the show was retooled as The Conners, named after the central family in the sitcom.