THE BACHELOR: THE GREATEST SEASONS -- EVER!
ABC, 8:00 p.m. ET
This is a warning, not a recommendation. Again. I warned about this ABC show last week, when it made its initial appearance, gobbling up three hours’ worth of the network’s prime time schedule – every Monday night minute of it – to present what purported to be “the best” from The Bachelor over its 24 editions since premiering in 2002. I joked, at the time, that three hours presenting the finest moments from The Bachelor would still require filling a gap of, oh, three hours of TV time. But imagine my surprise when I learned, after the fact, that The Bachelor: The Greatest Seasons – Ever was not a bloated, unwatchable three-hour one-shot special, but a 10-episode summer series. Thirty hours of ABC prime time in total. That’s not just bloated. That’s inhumane. ABC has seven decades of history from which to draw, and virtually anything, rerun or repackaged during the pandemic, would have been better than this.