Bachelorette 16 - Clare Crawley & Tayshia Adams - Media SM - *Sleuthing Spoilers*

THREAD: All of your #BachelorInParadise & #TheBachelorette & #TheBachelor questions answered here...!

— Elizabeth Wagmeister (@EWagmeister) April 29, 2020

1. When will #TheBachelorette be back on TV?

Hopefully fall (as long as it can safely head into production in summer per government-mandated #corornavirus regulations)

“If I’m being realistic, it would probably be mid-summer that we start,” @Millsy11374 tells me of production.

— Elizabeth Wagmeister (@EWagmeister) April 29, 2020

2. How will #TheBachelorette shoot this summer, given #COVID19?

The entire season will be shot at one large location (which is TBD). Contestants/crew members will be tested before entering the private venue & then quarantined on-site for the duration of the season’s shoot.

— Elizabeth Wagmeister (@EWagmeister) April 29, 2020

3. Will Clare's contestants be re-cast?

Sources tell me no footage of Clare's contestants was shot prior to production being shut down in March, so ABC is taking advantage of the additional time to continue casting -- aka, there will be new suitors & some might be replaced.

— Elizabeth Wagmeister (@EWagmeister) April 29, 2020

4. Can there be any travel for romantic dates, outside of the quarantined shooting location?

Possibly road trips, but only if they can be safely done. Clearly no international travel can happen this season.

— Elizabeth Wagmeister (@EWagmeister) April 29, 2020

5. Uhhh, what about hometown dates? (Those require planes!)

“All of this is still being figured out,” @Millsy11374 tells me.

— Elizabeth Wagmeister (@EWagmeister) April 29, 2020

6. Is #BachelorInParadise dunzo?

No, but it's not likely. #TheBachelorette / #TheBachelor are top priority.

“We’re certainly discussing it & how it could work," @Millsy11374 says.

“It does seem extremely unlikely as far as going to Mexico," @chrisbharrison tells @WillHMThorne

— Elizabeth Wagmeister (@EWagmeister) April 29, 2020

7. Remember that senior citizens version of #TheBachelor?

ABC absolutely loves the idea for the show & was considering it for the fall season, prior to #COVID19. Casting was already underway & ABC loved the casting videos they saw. Now, those plans are on hold.

— Elizabeth Wagmeister (@EWagmeister) April 29, 2020

Chgohighlife wrote:

Norcalgal wrote:Everyone deserves love and everyone deserves less criticism on social media. If mistakes were made, I'd look first to the producers. To have a successful show, you have to have the right lead and the right group of contestants. Trying to use a shoe horn to fit one into another isn't a successful strategy. Personally, I think TPTB got so much pushback from both the lead and the contestants, they're trying like hell to resurrect a pitiful season.

@Norcalgal
Sometimes it’s best to delete and start over from the beginning. Yes. Let’s hope they do that. I’d like to recommend they choose another bachelorette. Based upon the visceral and negative and voluminous responses Clare got for insulting one of her potential contestants, her popularity or, lack thereof won’t sustain her. That means the producers will go really, really low to ensure ratings. Really, she was nasty and arrogant and she was attacked in record time which to me would indicate she wasn’t too well liked from the jump. Add to that the predator/cougar factor? I’ll take a pass and there’s a long line behind me if people who post in various forums are to be believed. 

There are lots of better candidates for this job. All IMO.

albean99 wrote:I'd rather they film BIP than do a bachelorette in one location.

In terms of The Bachelorette, the tentative plan is to start shooting the season in June or July, for a possible fall launch?

Yeah, that’s the thought. Of course, who knows, but my thought is late June, July. This show that we’re doing, this greatest-hits show, is going to be a bit of a stop-gap, and that will fill that Bachelorette schedule in June and July, and then hopefully we’re shooting Clare’s season. And then that would get us into [production on season 25] of The Bachelor, and then we’d be kind of back on schedule. Will Paradise happen? Will it fall in the middle? That’ll totally dependent on where we are in the calendar when we can get back and shooting The Bachelorette. Maybe we get it all done — that would be great. But the way things are going, they don’t seem to be progressing very quickly.

I don’t know, maybe we have to get out of California. The politics of California are not helping anybody at this point. Maybe you have to go to a state where things are opening up quicker.

If you can’t start shooting anything until the fall, which is when production on The Bachelor usually begins, would you shoot The Bachelor first — even if you haven’t shot Clare’s season of The Bachelorette?  

I’d hate to think of a world where we would we’d have to even contemplate that. That would mean things have gone so horribly wrong that we’re in a terrible situation as a nation. Our goal, first and foremost, is to shoot The Bachelorette, and if we can do that in the next three to four months, we’re still fine. We can push The Bachelor a little bit and get that done as well... The way we do it now, is we finish [production on The Bachelor] right before Thanksgiving. But in the past, when we were doing more [seasons], we would go into December. We could easily shift two or three months. Look, would it crush our post-production department, who's having to edit it? Yeah. But really the way we do it now is so everybody can enjoy Christmas and New Year's. [Pushing it later] would just destroy Christmas and New Year's for everybody — but we could get it done. [laughs]

"First of all, everyone relax about the whole charity thing. Clare's not against charity, she's not against Matt doing charity. That's fantastic and Matt, good on you for doing something during this quarantine that's positive," Harrison told ET. "But with that said, she's not specifically talking about Matt, she's just saying she's living under a certain set of guidelines and rules because she's the Bachelorette. She's kind of already in our family, and she's been respecting that."

"These guys aren't living under those guidelines, because they're not really part of our thing yet. And so they're out living their life, and they're kind of using having been picked to be on The Bachelorette as a bit of a bouncing point... so I think she's just like, 'Look, I wish everybody would respect the rules. We all play by the same rules, so when you come in, there is a sense of innocence and naivety and we can actually got through this,'" he continued.

Harrison assured fans that Crawley wasn't "calling anybody in particular out." "She's not mad at Matt, and it's all good. And she's not mad at anybody doing things for charity first of all, don't get mad at Clare," he said.

https://www.etonline.com/bachelorette-chris-harrison-on-if-matt-james-will-still-be-on-clare-crawleys-season-exclusive

GuardianAngel wrote:@bluwavz thanks for all that! If they film in the summer, I wonder when it will air and how will that affect TB filming.

imo I would hardly call Clare a cougar or predator, far from it. She's living a quite life in Sacramento, working at a salon. She hardly posts on SM, she's not promoting herself in skimpy outfits like some other formers that come to mind. It's not like she's had a ton of boyfriends younger than her scrounging around for one young guy after another. If she hasn't been on a show, she's not in the media at all. If she had a cougar predator reputation there would be information out there to that effect.