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ABC Pits ‘Bachelor Winter Games’ Against Olympics, Adds ‘Dancing With Stars Junior’ Edition

In a major push on the reality-TV front, new American Idol broadcaster ABC announced Tuesday morning it will air The Bachelor Winter Games and a Dancing with the Stars Junior edition next TV season. News was revealed during a phoner with reporters covering ABC’s Upfront presentation of its 2017-18 TV season primetime slate to advertisers Tuesday afternoon.

In The Bachelor Winter Games, fan faves from The Bachelor and The Bachelorette seasons past will engage in competitive dating, which ABC assured they will take to “a chilling new level.”  Not coincidentally, the new iteration will premiere in February 2018, around the time NBC typically dominates TV flooding its schedule with Winter Olympics competitions. Those Games run February 10-25.

The Bachelor Winter Games will reunite its all-stars in some as-yet-unnamed “luxurious winter resort” where they will go head-to-head in winter-themed athletic challenges, like the Olympics.  It’s a risky move for The Bachelor franchise which relies on warm climates conducive to bikinis and clothing-challenged situations. At a winter resort, the competitors are likely to have to bundle up. On the bright side, unlike NBC, ABC will be able to televise competitors’ post-competition hot-tub make-out sessions and canoodling.

Here's how ABC describes the dating competition series: It "will reunite the all-stars at a luxurious winter resort, where they will go head-to-head in winter-themed athletic challenges, including the toughest sport of all: love."

What can you tell us about the Bachelor spinoff Winter Games?

We’re still in the early stages. We have been scouting locations, so it is in the U.S. At the end of the day, it’s going to be about finding love again. It will have some of the Bachelor Pad DNA, in that there is going to be a competition element. And the other thing we're excited about is having contestants form the international formats of The Bachelor. So you have somebody from Bachelor Japan, Bachelor Australia, Bachelor Canada and Bachelor UK. We’re really excited to see if we can have some international romances as well as the competition in U.S. versus the world.

IMPORTANT QUESTION #Bachelornation, which country should Daniel represent in #BachelorWinterGames

— Robert Mills (@Millsy11374) August 30, 2017