Bachelor Australia - Season 8 - Locky Gilbert - Media SM - *Sleuthing Spoilers*

Enough wrote: The  Bachelor's eighth season will premiere on Channel 10 next month, the network's head of entertainment, Stephen Tate, announced on Monday.

While an exact air date hasn't been confirmed, it's expected the show will launch at the end of August, after Bachelor in Paradise season three has finished its run.

"We were three-quarters of the way through series when we went into lockdown, and basically all the cast returned home,' Mr Tate told The Australian. ( Liar)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8495741/The-Bachelor-Australia-starring-Locky-Gilbert-premiere-month.html?adobe_mc=TS%3D1594077432%7CMCAID%3D2F5F90320515D04D-600006BECAF7FA32

Bobette wrote:Well that does not bode well IMO.  Seems like they're trying to get it over and done with ASAP.  

Also yes that's a TOTAL LIE that they were 3/4 of the way though!  They were only about 3 weeks into filming (and we have the posts to prove it).  What he means is "we didn't want to waste time bringing the MoTs back so told them to stay home" IMO.

At least if they're editing on the fly there will be less time for frankenbyting and storyline creation, so we might get a less manufactured season.  I presume he's settled on an F1 after all this time though so night 1 editing will still tell the story IMO.

leavers wrote:Precisely, @Bobette. They weren't 3/4 done at all, this is just how they're going to weasel their way out of bringing back all the women and cutting down the season dramatically. They'll probably only have like, one or maybe two zoom date episodes - nobody can stomach more than that, have we all not suffered enough zoom as it is? And yep, less time for editing is a GOOD thing.

“There’s some very real connections there,” Stephen told us. “We actually wrapped last night in the small hours of the morning and the girls are going to head home today and they’re all going to do the right thing and go into their two weeks of isolation, as will Locky.”

“We’ve got a good amount of the series in the can, we’re about a third of the way in which buys us a lot of time and we’re going to embrace what’s happening to all of us here in Australia. It will form part of the story,”

Bobette wrote:



Yep, and because I'm bored and petty I went back and found the original announcement by aforementioned liar liar pants on fire Ch 10 spokesperson Stephen Tate when production was shut down on March 26, who said:

“There’s some very real connections there,” Stephen told us. “We actually wrapped last night in the small hours of the morning and the girls are going to head home today and they’re all going to do the right thing and go into their two weeks of isolation, as will Locky.”

“We’ve got a good amount of the series in the can, we’re about a third of the way in which buys us a lot of time and we’re going to embrace what’s happening to all of us here in Australia. It will form part of the story,”

Source

Locky was announced as Bach on March 4 and first SD was March 10 so they were literally only 22 days max into filming.  Pretty easy to go from "1/3" of the way though to "3/4" when you ditch most of the cast though I guess.

Sprite wrote:https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/melbourne-to-reimpose-six-week-coronavirus-lockdown-as-australia-battles-potential-second-wave/ar-BB16qurQ?ocid=msedgntp

I just read this. Seems cases are spiking again and they are shutting down again. Do you think this could have an effect on the filming starting up again?

The Bachelor resumed filming in Sydney's Oxford Falls last week, more than three months after on-site production was suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

But longtime viewers of the dating show fear that Channel 10's proposed premiere date for next month may be a little too ambitious.

Eagle-eyed fans on The Bachelor and Bachelorette Spoiler Forum have pointed out that a network executive has made conflicting statements about the progress of filming.

As spotted by forum user 'Bobette', Channel 10's head of entertainment, Stephen Tate, seemingly contradicted himself this week when talking about how far into production the eighth season of The Bachelor was when filming was suspended in March.

Mr Tate told The Australian on Monday: 'We were three-quarters of the way through [the] series when we went into lockdown, and basically all the cast returned home.'

But he'd told The Kyle and Jackie O Show on March 26, shortly after the production shutdown, that they were only 'a third of the way in'.