Saw a TVC on SEVEN. Looks like they'll be filling the AFL slots with repeats of older historic AFL games.
And if I'm reading it correctly Bachellor won't have an ending for the present.
via NINE/Faifax:
Bachelor filming suspended mid-season
By Karl Quinn
Locklan “Locky” Gilbert will have to wait a little longer to find The One, with Ten announcing on Thursday evening that it has shut down production on
The Bachelor.
The news came just 24 hours after
production on Nine’s The Block was similarly shut down as coronavirus continues to play havoc with film and TV production, in both reality and scripted spheres. (Nine publishes this masthead.)
Locklan 'Locky' Gilbert will have to wait a little longer for those hometown visits...Credit:Nigel Wright
In a release issued on Thursday afternoon, Network 10 and production company Warner Bros. advised that despite having employed “extra precautions” on set for some time, “it is no longer practical to continue with production".
“Our decision to halt production was made after considering all available options. We will resume production when it is safe to do so.”
On Friday morning, the network confirmed “we were well into the production of [
The Bachelor] but we were still a few weeks away from wrapping”.
Production on
Bachelor in Paradise has already been completed, though its airdate has been pushed back slightly.
On Thursday, Ten aired its first promo for the new season of
MasterChef – which is currently in production – with an air date of April 13.
Production continues on a number of other reality programs, which are so critical to the prime-time schedules of the free-to-air commercial networks, but
The Bachelor posed particular challenges.
One-to-one dates and alone time would be all but impossible under social distancing rules that demand people stay a minimum of 1.5 metres apart. The exploratory kissing and cuddling of the show would be strictly off limits."