"The Bachelor: Listen to Your Heart" Ordered at ABC
by Rebecca Iannucci
January 8, 2020


ABC announced Wednesday that it has ordered "The Bachelor: Listen to Your Heart", a music-driven spin-off of its reality dating franchise.

"Listen to Your Heart" will premiere Monday, April 13 at 8/7c on ABC.




"Listen to Your Heart" will feature 20 single men and women who “embark on an incredible journey to find love through music,” the logline reads.

By singing well-known songs — both individually and as couples — the singles will “look to form attractions through the melodies, find and reveal their feelings and ultimately fall in love.”




The contestants will live together and go on dates throughout the season. Couples will face music-centric challenges, including live performances judged by some of the music industry’s biggest names.

In the end, “the couples whose performances reveal their love and devotion to one another will continue to be given a chance to further their relationship until only one couple is left standing,” per the description.

https://tvline.com/2020/01/08/the-bachelor-spinoff-listen-to-your-heart-abc-premiere-date/

The Bachelor sure is still popular with fans and so I think The Bachelor really will have a smart idea with The Bachelor Listen To Your Heart. Making it a cross between American Idol and The Bachelor is such an innovention because if this show is a hit they may spark a new trend of reality dating shows. I wonder if Chris Harrison will sing in the show too?
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The Bachelor is expanding to include seniors as it mostly ignores minorities and LGBTQ community (https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2020/02/bachelor-casting-seniors-edition/)

The ABC reality franchise expanding to senior citizens (https://www.primetimer.com/item/Senior-citizens-may-get-their-own-Bachelor-k4Sz45) comes after years of complaints over the lack of diversity in The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, particularly in the lead roles. "It’s pretty incredible that The Bachelor franchise is expanding and becoming more diverse by creating a show for old people, but still has yet to meaningfully include people of color or queer people in its central shows," says Andy Dehnart. "The network and producers are still very, very afraid of scaring off the show’s audience by handing over a season to anyone other than a bland white straight person. And there’s a reason for that: The one season of The Bachelorette that starred a black woman had significantly lower ratings, which lead franchise creator Mike Fleiss to say that 'revealed something about our fans.' So what are the odds we get a bunch of straight, white old people for this new show, in the same way the other shows give us a lot of straight, white young people, both as suitors and especially as the stars of the show?" ALSO: The Bachelor Peter Weber insists he wasn't given a sex ultimatum (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/bachelor-star-peter-weber-speaks-madisons-sex-ultimatum-1281121).