Bachelor Australia Season 6 - Nick Cummins - SM Media - *Sleuthing Spoilers*

Storybook wrote:I am not a fan of the Bachelor being turned into a comedy show. Admittedly Matty J was as boring as watching paint dry, but adding in laughs to draw in viewers is going to the other extreme. Nick seems like a genuine guy, and I'm sure the show will further his career, but finding love (which the show is supposed to be about) is something I doubt will happen. I am going against popular opinion (which I did with Sophie) when I say I don't find anything in Nick that makes me want to watch the show. With regards to his video, to me he comes across as subdued and scripted.

Sprite wrote:

Storybook wrote:I am not a fan of the Bachelor being turned into a comedy show. Admittedly Matty J was as boring as watching paint dry, but adding in laughs to draw in viewers is going to the other extreme. Nick seems like a genuine guy, and I'm sure the show will further his career, but finding love (which the show is supposed to be about) is something I doubt will happen. I am going against popular opinion (which I did with Sophie) when I say I don't find anything in Nick that makes me want to watch the show. With regards to his video, to me he comes across as subdued and scripted.

I don't know. I watched that and to me he seems pretty sincere. True I prefer a romantic type Bachelor season, but above all I like someone who is authentic and is true to themselves. While he may not end up finding anyone, I do think he went into it open to the possibility and that is all I can hope for. If in the process he makes me laugh a bit, I'm good with that...even if he doesn't end up with anyone.

The Bachelor, The Bachelorette and Survivor among shows facing the axe in 2019 as it's claimed Channel Ten's US owners CBS were 'observing for a year' and will soon 'intervene'

Bobette wrote:

The Bachelor, The Bachelorette and Survivor among shows facing the axe in 2019 as it's claimed Channel Ten's US owners CBS were 'observing for a year' and will soon 'intervene'

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Channel Ten has hit back at reports claiming The Bachelor, The Bachelorette and Survivor were facing the axe in 2019.  

On Saturday, an insider claimed to News Corp the network's owners, US media giant CBS were 'reviewing' the future of a string of shows believed to be 'too similar to each other' or under-performing in the ratings.

And despite slipping 12.9 per cent in year-on-year audience share from 2017 to 2018, significantly more than Nine (8.2%) and Seven (1.9%), Ten's Chief Content Officer Beverley McGarvey slammed the claims as 'naive, false and total nonsense.'

'To claim Australian Survivor, The Bachelor Australia, The Bachelorette Australia, I'm A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! and Pointless are under review is total nonsense,' she told Daily Mail Australia.

The network head honcho also addressed reports the futures of The Bachelor and Bachelorette were in jeopardy for being 'too similar.'

'The new season of The Bachelor Australia, with Nick 'Honey Badger' Cummins, starts on 15 August and it is set to be a fantastic season,' she said.

'While the new season of The Bachelorette Australia with Ali Oetjen will follow later this year. The claim that we think the shows are too similar and that there is only room for one is naïve and false.'