‘The Bachelor’ Names New Showrunner, Locks in 2025-26 Renewal
ABC has found a new showrunner for The Bachelor, and with it comes a formal renewal for the series for the 2025-26 season.
Scott Teti, who’s currently the showrunner and executive producer of Bachelor in Paradise, will take those same titles for The Bachelor’s 30th season. Teti’s hiring comes three and a half months after former showrunners Claire Freeland and Bennett Graebner left the franchise amid allegations that they ran a “toxic” and “hostile” workplace; the pair have denied those allegations.
Their departure, along with the prior exit of co-executive producers Michael Margolis and Keely Booth, left The Bachelor in an uncertain place after its 29th edition concluded in March. ABC left the show off its 2025-26 schedule at May’s upfronts — and scrapped The Bachelorette for this year — even as Bachelor in Paradise geared up for a summer run and the network announced its next Golden Bachelor lead.
The hiring of Teti could allow The Bachelor to stick fairly close to its usual production and broadcast schedule; the show typcially films in the fall and premieres in January.
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Teti is a relative newcomer to the Bachelor-verse, with the coming Bachelor in Paradise season (which premieres July 7) marking his first time working on the franchise. His previous credits include ABC’s Claim to Fame, Bravo’s Summer House and the Married at First Sight franchise.
Deadline first reported the news.
