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Aired spring 2008 · Mansion plus travel

DeAnna Pappas

The reboot. After a three-year pause, the franchise brings the flipped format back with a Bachelor runner-up from Georgia ready for the chair from limo step one. Nine episodes is the longest the show had tried, and the extra runway gets used on travel dates that push past the mansion gates with confidence the early run could not afford. The casting tightens, the producing tightens, and the season re-established the show as a permanent fixture rather than an experiment.

Filmed
Agoura Hills, California
Premiered
May 19, 2008
Episodes
9
Format
25 men · the post-hiatus reboot
the show comes back
Host
Chris Harrison
On this page4 sections
  1. 01The take
  2. 02Where it sits in the canon
  3. 03Adjacent in the canon
  4. 04Also appears in
01The take

A confident second chapter.

02Where it sits in the canon

The #15 slot.

Slot #15 of 21 in the Bachelorette Editor's Canon. The reboot. After a three-year pause, the franchise brings the flipped format back with a Bachelor runner-up from Georgia who reads ready for the chair from her first limo step. Nine episodes is the longest the show had tried, and the extra runway gets used on travel dates that push past the mansion gates with more confidence than the founding run could afford. The casting tightens. The producing tightens. Chris Harrison settles into a cadence that suggests the show is here to stay. The season that re-established the Bachelorette as a permanent fixture rather than a curious experiment, and the bridge to the travelogue era that followed.

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04Also appears in

Cross-references.