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Aired summer 2009 · International travel debut

Jillian Harris

The season that opened the passport. An interior designer from British Columbia becomes the franchise's first Canadian lead, the producers expand the cast to thirty men, and the calendar stretches to twelve episodes with travel dates that finally take the format overseas. The casting reads broader and warmer than the early run, the international stops do real editorial work, and the production scale clears a bar the show had circled. The season the modern Bachelorette starts to look like itself.

Filmed
Agoura Hills, California
Premiered
May 18, 2009
Episodes
12
Format
30 men · first Canadian lead
the passport opens
Host
Chris Harrison
Chris Harrison's fifth Bachelorette season
01The take

Jillian Harris.

The season that opened the passport. An interior designer from British Columbia becomes the franchise's first Canadian lead, the producers expand the cast to thirty men, and the calendar stretches to twelve episodes with travel dates that finally take the format overseas. The casting reads broader and warmer than the early run, the international stops do real editorial work, and the production scale clears a bar the show had circled. The season the modern Bachelorette starts to look like itself.

03Where it sits in the canon

The #03 slot.

Slot #03 of 10 in the The Bachelorette Editor's Canon. The neighbors below frame what we ranked above and below it.

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06Also appears in

Cross-references.

Also appears in
The Bachelorette S5 — Jillian Harris — tiered.tv