'The Golden Bachelor' Premiere Draws Record Ratings in Delayed Viewing
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The premiere episode of 'The Golden Bachelor' hit a three-year high for the Bachelor franchise in total viewers. The September 28th premiere rose to 7.7 million viewers after three days of cross-platform viewing, a gain of 3.34 million viewers (and almost 77 percent) over its on-air tally of 4.36 million.
The premiere episode of The Golden Bachelor hit a three-year high for the Bachelor franchise
in total viewers. The show follows 72-year-old widower Jerry Turner as he seeks another chance
at love from among a group of age-appropriate women. After a solid showing for its initial
broadcast, The Golden Bachelor continued gathering momentum in the subsequent days.
The September 28 premiere rose to 7.7 million viewers after three days of cross-platform
viewing, a gain of 3.34 million viewers, and almost 77 percent over its on-air tally of 4.36
million. The total viewer count was the best three-day total for any installment of the
Bachelor franchise since a season 16 episode of The Bachelorette in November 2020. Additionally,
ABC says the premiere recorded the equivalent of 1.76 million complete showings on Hulu,
the highest three-day tally ever for a series premiere of an ABC show on the platform.
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