Angeline Herron / ABC
+TV Recap The Bachlorette: Season 8, Episode 2 | May 22, 2012

The Bachelorette Watch: The Muppets Make a Move on Emily

By Melissa Locker

The Muppets stop by The Bachelorette so Kermit can make a play for Emily Maynard's heart. Or something.

+TV Recap The Bachlorette: Season 8, Episode 1 | May 15, 2012

The Bachelorette Watch: Emily Maynard Meets Her 25 Boyfriends

By Melissa Locker
CRAIG SJODIN / ABC

Twenty-five men, a bunch of roses, and one lady who is trying really hard not to catch a disease on national television. That’s right, it’s The Bachelorette.

+Television | May 3, 2012

‘Bachelor’ Host Chris Harrison, Wife Ending Marriage

By Associated Press
Steve Marcus / Reuters

(LOS ANGELES) — “The Bachelor” host Chris Harrison is going be a bachelor again.

Tuned In
Tuned In+Television | April 19, 2012

White Roses: The Bachelor Sued for Racial Discrimination

By James Poniewozik
ABC

If nothing else, the suit is bringing attention to the fact that The Bachelor franchise has been too white for too long. And that’s no good, not just for applicants, but for the audience and the show.

+TV Recap The Bachelor: Season 16, Episode 11 | March 13, 2012

The Bachelor Finale: Did Ben Pick Courtney or Lindzi?

By Melissa Locker
Courtesy of ABC

Bachelor life tips: When you tell a man you love him and he says, “Good,” you should run.

+Miscellany | March 12, 2012

The Week Ahead—10 Things To Watch, Read and Listen To: March 12–18

By Lily Rothman
Everett

Every Monday, for your planning purposes, we lay out the week ahead in entertainment.

+TV Recap The Bachelor: Season 16, Episode 10 | March 6, 2012

The Bachelor Watch: The Women Tell All, Say Nothing

By Melissa Locker
NICK RAY / ABC

As this season winds down to a close, the show puts all the women in one room to hash it out.

+Miscellany | March 5, 2012

The Week Ahead—10 Things To Watch, Play and Listen To: March 5-11

By Lily Rothman
Cliff Lipson / CBS via Getty Images

Every Monday, for your planning purposes, we will lay out the week ahead in entertainment.

+TV Recap The Bachelor: Season 16, Episode 9 | February 28, 2012

The Bachelor Watch: Ben Picks His Swiss Misses

By Melissa Locker
The Bachelor Switzerland

Ben climbs every mountain in Switzerland in order to get to the fantasy suites. Also, there is some yelling at cows.

+TV Recap The Bachelor: Season 16, Episode 8 | February 21, 2012

The Bachelor Watch: Meet the Parents

By Melissa Locker
BILL MATLOCK / ABC

Four girls, eight parents, one Bachelor. What could possibly go wrong?

+TV Recap The Bachelor: Season 16, Episode 7 | February 14, 2012

The Bachelor Watch: Do You Belize in Love?

By Melissa Locker
The Bachelor Episode 1607

This week, Belize got added to US State Department travel alerts as an international hotspot for kissing diseases when The Bachelor brought its louche and lusty contestants to the Central American country.

+TV Recap The Bachelor: Season 16, Episode 6 | February 7, 2012

The Bachelor Watch: Drama in Panama

By Melissa Locker
FRANCISCO ROMAN / ABC

Bachelor rules: No kissing instructions, no ex-boyfriends, and definitely no scrapbooking.

+TV Recap The Bachelor: Season 16, Episode 5 | January 31, 2012

The Bachelor Watch: Ben Gets Naked in Puerto Rico

By Melissa Locker
RANCISCO ROMAN / ABC

The claws come out and the clothes come off in this week’s Caribbean-set episode.

+TV Recap The Bachelor: Season 16, Episode 4 | January 24, 2012

The Bachelor Watch: Fishing For Love

By Melissa Locker
ABC / Natalie Cass

Ben takes the women fly fishing, which is totally not a metaphor for the show as a whole.

+TV Recap The Bachelor: Season 16, Episode 3 | January 17, 2012

The Bachelor Watch: That's My Man!

By Melissa Locker
ABC

One contestant can’t handle the competition, while another comes back for more.

+TV Recap The Bachelor: Season 16, Episode 2 | January 10, 2012

The Bachelor Watch: And The Blondes Played On

By Melissa Locker
ABC

It’s only episode two of the season. Why is everyone crying so much?

+TV Recap The Bachelor: Season 16, Episode 1 | January 3, 2012

The Bachelor: Meet Ben and His 25 Sorta Crazy Girlfriends

By Melissa Locker
ABC

When last we saw him, Ben had been rejected by Bachelorette Ashley Hebert. Now, he is just dying to break the hearts of these 25 willing contestants.

Tuned In
Tuned In+Uncategorized | March 15, 2011

The Morning After: For Love or Money

By James Poniewozik

Quick spoilers for last night’s The Bachelor coming up:

Tuned In
Tuned In+Uncategorized | July 6, 2010

Fairytale, Ending: Last Night's Awkward Bachelor Reunion

By James Poniewozik

Last night on a very special edition of The Bachelorette, the current reigning Bachelor, Jake Pavelka, and the object of his rose-bestowal, Vienna Girardi, returned to explain to Chris Harrison the very public tabloid breakup of their made-on-TV relationship. The charge, as Vienna brought it: that a month after they declared their love in the [...]