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The Bachelorette has decided to take a break this summer. ABC‘s long-running reality dating series won’t be returning for season 22 in Summer 2025, following Grant Ellis’ current season of The Bachelor.
"The good news is I know it's not going away. I know it's definitely coming back," host Jesse Palmer, 46, confirmed during a February 11 appearance on the "Playing the Field" podcast. "Without being able to get into too much of the creative decisions on it, I know that when it does, I just think it's going to be absolutely tremendous."
The last three The Bachelorette seasons have all premiered in July, but ABC will be airing Season 10 of Bachelor in Paradise this summer instead.
Sources recently told Deadline that The Bachelorette has not been canceled but the show is unlikely to return in 2025.
"I know it's not unprecedented for The Bachelorette not to air in the summer."
The last three seasons of The Bachelorette have premiered in July. Jenn Tran led the latest iteration, season 21, of the female-led spinoff of The Bachelor last year. It ended in September with a shocking twist after Tran had to decide between two final men, Marcus Shoberg and Devin Strader. (Spoiler!) Though Tran ultimately chose Strader, it was later revealed during the live finale that Strader broke off the engagement through a phone call.
Typically, an eliminated contestant from The Bachelor will go on to lead the next cycle of The Bachelorette. However, the veteran series has switched things up before, especially in recent years, either airing two cycles in a year or with season 19, which featured two female leads with Gabby Windey and Rachel Recchia.
The Bachelorette first premiered in 2003 with lead Trista Rehn, after she came in second during Alex Michel’s season of The Bachelor, which was also the first season of the ABC reality dating franchise. The female-led spinoff previously paused production in 2006 and 2007 before returning with season four in 2008.
Spinoff series Bachelor in Paradise also returns this summer after last airing in 2023 with season 10, and the Golden Bachelor and Golden Bachelorette have also been added to the franchise’s slate.
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Fox is breaking into the mobile gaming business with a title based on its hit reality competition “The Masked Singer.”
Launching Wednesday tied to “The Masked Singer” Season 13 premiere, “The Masked Singer: Mask Mania” mobile game app tasks the player with clearing levels by shooting digital bubbles, which include “Masked Singer” characters like Ice Cream, Monster, Pineapple, White Tiger, and”Masked Singer” show paraphernalia like magnifying glasses, question marks, logos and character masks. The goal is to complete all 50 levels, win the map and the Golden Mask Trophy. There will be five playable “The Masked Singer: Mask Mania” characters in the game at launch, each with unique environments inside levels.
Fox will unveil a “very special” character in the game on Friday in honor of Valentine’s Day. Available to download on Apple’s App Store and Google Play, the free-to-play game developed by Revyrie includes in-game purchases (a.k.a. microtransactions) for unlockable characters, power-ups and limited time power-ups, clearing the current level, additional lives, new player skins, bundles and seasonal or holiday-themed items.
“’The Masked Singer: Mask Mania; mobile game adds another level of creative family fun to ‘The Masked Singer’ franchise. We are all about added value and this game takes ‘The Masked Singer’ to the next level,” “The Masked Singer” executive producer Craig Plestis said. “We hope everyone young and old can enjoy this mobile game. I’ve been playing the game all during development, and I’m completely obsessed and hope our fans will be too!”
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Jeopardy! fans get ready for 27 familiar faces as the second annual Invitational Tournament takes place this month.
The lineup was just announced, after fans speculated, and it includes favorites from past seasons and Tournament of Champions runner-ups.
JIT will begin immediately after the Tournament of Champions ends, which will be no later than Monday, February 17, due to the “best of seven” finals series.
The players will compete in nine quarterfinal games, three semifinals, and a multiple-game finals series. The first Jeopardy! alum to win two games wins JIT. The JIT winner takes home $150,000, which is $50,000 more than last year. They will also compete in the upcoming 2025 Jeopardy! Masters.
The full list of this year’s JIT competitors can be seen below.
- Matt Amodio, a Season 37-38 38-game champion, 2024 Jeopardy! Masters sixth place finisher, 2023 Jeopardy! Masters third place finisher, and 2022 Tournament of Champions semifinalist from New York, N.Y.
- Robin Carroll, a Season 16 five-game champion, 2001 International Championship winner, 2000 Tournament of Champions winner, and participant in the 2002 Million Dollar Masters and 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions events from Atlanta, Ga.
- Ben Chan, a Season 39 nine-game champion and 2024 Tournament of Champions first runner-up from Green Bay, Wis.
- Roger Craig, a Season 27 six-game champion, 2011 Tournament of Champions winner, 2014 Battle of the Decades second runner-up and 2019 All-Star Games participant from Arlington, Va.
- Luigi de Guzman, a Season 38-39 five-game champion and 2024 Tournament of Champions semifinalist from Arlington, Va.
- Jonathan Fisher, a Season 38 11-game champion and 2022 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist originally from Coral Gables, Fla.
- John Focht, a Season 37 four-game champion and 2022 Tournament of Champions semifinalist originally from El Paso, Texas.
- Raymond Goslow, the 2022 Jeopardy! National College Championship first runner-up from Marietta, Ga.
- Avi Gupta, the 2019 Teen Tournament winner and 2023 High School Reunion semifinalist from Portland, Ore.
- Skyler Hornback, a 2013 Kids Week winner who set a Kids Week single-day winnings record of $66,600 originally from Sonora, Ky.
- Jackson Jones, a 2023 High School Reunion semifinalist and 2019 Teen Tournament semifinalist from Louisville, Ky.
- Jackie Kelly, a Season 38 four-game winner and 2022 Tournament of Champions semifinalist originally from Philadelphia, Pa.
- Ray Lalonde, a Season 39 13-game champion and 2024 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist from Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- Ryan Long, a Season 38 16-game champion and 2022 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist from Philadelphia, Pa.
- Troy Meyer, a Season 39 six-game champion and 2024 Tournament of Champions second runner-up originally from Cleveland, Ohio.
- Doug Molitor, a Season 3 four-game champion, 1993 10th Anniversary Tournament semifinalist and 1987 Tournament of Champions semifinalist originally from Altadena, Calif.
- Emily Sands, a Season 37 three-game champion, 2023 Champions Wildcard winner and 2024 Tournament of Champions semifinalist from Chanhassen, Minn.
- Claire Sattler, the 2018 Teen Tournament winner and 2023 High School Reunion Tournament semifinalist from New York, N.Y.
- Amy Schneider, a Season 38 40-game champion, 2022 Tournament of Champions winner, 2024 Jeopardy! Masters fourth place finisher and 2023 Jeopardy! Masters fifth place finisher from Oakland, Calif.
- Rachael Schwartz, a Season 10 four-game champion, 1994 Tournament of Champions winner, 2014 Battle of the Decades quarterfinalist, 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions participant, and 2022 Million Dollar Masters quarterfinalist from Berkeley, Calif.
- Margaret Shelton, a Season 38 four-game champion and 2022 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist from Pittsburgh, Pa.
- Jaskaran Singh, the 2022 Jeopardy! National College Championship winner and 2022 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist from Plano, Texas.
- Shane Whitlock, the 1996 College Championship winner, 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Elite Eighteen finisher and 1996 Tournament of Champions semifinalist originally from Benton, Ark.
- Hannah Wilson, a Season 39 eight-game champion and 2024 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist from Chicago, Ill.
- Seth Wilson, a Season 33 12-game champion, 2019 All-Star Games participant and 2017 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist from Oak Park, Ill.
- Maya Wright, the second runner-up in the 2023 High School Reunion Tournament and the second runner-up in the 2018 Teen Tournament from Atlanta, Ga.
- Juveria Zaheer, a 2023 Second Chance competition winner, 2024 Champions Wildcard winner, and 2024 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist from Whitby, Ontario, Canada.
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Five of New York City’s pension funds have filed a class-action lawsuit seeking to pause Paramount’s pending $8 billion merger with Skydance Media, alleging that controlling shareholder Shari Redstone and members of Paramount’s special committee that evaluated bids breached their fiduciary duty.
The complaint, which was filed on Feb. 4 against board members Barbara Byrne, Linda Griego, Judith McHale and Susan Schuman and unsealed on Monday, alleges that the group failed to sufficiently consider an alternative $13.5 billion offer from Project Rise Partners, which the New York City Employees’ Retirement System says is superior to the Skydance deal.
The funds, which include the NYCERS, the New York City Fire Department Pension Fund, the New York City Police Pension Fund, the New York City Board of Education Retirement System, and the Teachers’ Retirement System of the City of New York, are seeking a court order to block the closing of the transaction until a final resolution of its claims are reached.
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WUWM is partnering with LAist to bring you a new radio program called Go Fact Yourself. It will air on Saturdays at 11 a.m. starting February 15 through June 28.
WUWM was selected as the first station to pilot this program with LAist, as they consider it for national distribution.
Go Fact Yourself is a pop culture trivia show hosted by J. Keith van Straaten (Ask Me Another, Senior Writer) and Helen Hong (Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me, recurring panelist). Each week, van Straaten and Hong test celebrity guests on their self-proclaimed areas of pop culture expertise. Go Fact Yourself comes from LAist and the Maximum Fun Podcast Network and is recorded in front of a live audience at The Crawford, in Pasadena, CA.
Go Fact Yourself also has an online quiz that you can play, every week, starting February 15th.
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ICI Radio-Canada Télé has commissioned a local version of UK quiz show format One Question for French-language audiences.
The 12×60’ series, also to be streamed on ICI Tou.TV, will be co-produced by Sphère Média and Radio-Canada in association with NBCUniversal Formats, which licenses the format globally.
To be titled La Question (One Question) locally, it will be hosted by French-Canadian presenter François Morency (Discussions avec mes Parents).
The quiz show invites a pair of contestants to answer just a single question to win a cash prize. The duo will be faced with 16 possible answers, but only one answer is correct. Under mounting tension, the contestants must eliminate the 15 incorrect answers.
La Question is based on the UK format created by Chalkboard for Channel 4 in 2022 and presented by Claudia Winkleman (The Traitors).
Suzanne Kendrick, VP, format sales, NBCUniversal Formats, said: “One Question is a quizshow unlike any other and is perfectly primed for international adaptation.
“We can’t wait to bring audiences a uniquely French-Canadian version with our partners at Sphère Média and Radio-Canada and the one and only François.”
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Shantay, Law Roach is here to stay (on a semi-regular basis) on RuPaul’s Drag Race.
Following his debut as a guest judge on last year’s 16th season, the celebrity ‘image architect’ revealed his new gig as a “rotating” judge on the MTV reality competition series, alongside host RuPaul Charles.
“I am not the special guest judge. I am sitting next to Ru, and Hunter Schafer is the special guest judge this episode,” he told Parade of Friday’s Season 17 episode ‘Let’s Get Sickening Ball’.
Roach joins the likes of fellow rotating judges Ross Matthews, Carson Kressley and Ts Madison, alongside Ru, permanent fixture Michelle Visage and a celebrity guest judge each week.
When asked how many more episodes he’ll appear in this season, Roach said, “I don’t know what I can say. But I mean, we all know what that third seat represents.”
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