‘The Golden Bachelor’ Premiere Draws Record Ratings For ABC; Hulu’s Best-Ever Series Debut

Denise Petski
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The Golden Bachelor is truly golden for ABC and Hulu. The series premiere of The Bachelor spinoff ranks as the highest-rated premiere on Hulu for any series in The Bachelor franchise (The Bachelor, The Bachelorette, Bachelor in Paradise), and as the network’s No. 1 series premiere ever on the streaming platform in Live+3 with 1.76 million views.

After three days of viewing across linear and streaming platforms, the premiere for the latest installment of ABC’s dating franchise surged to a 1.90 rating among Adults 18-49, up a whopping 206% over its initial Live+Same day rating, according to Nielsen. Additionally, the series soared to 7.70 million Total Viewers, picking up an additional +3.34 million viewers in delayed cross-platform viewing.

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The Golden Bachelor premiere also scored the biggest multiplatform audience (7.70 million Total Viewers) for any telecast in The Bachelor franchise in nearly 3 years, since the Nov. 10, 2020 telecast of The Bachelorette. It also opened as the highest-rated multiplatform telecast in the franchise since March 2022 among Adults 18-49 (1.90 rating) – since The Bachelor: After the Final Rose on March 15, 2022.

For ABC, the premiere marked the highest-rated debut for an unscripted series on any network in nearly 2 years among Adults 18-49 (0.76 rating), since ABC’s Judge Steve Harvey on January 4, 2022.

Produced by Warner Bros. Unscripted Television in associated with Warner Horizon, The Golden Bachelor stars Gerry Turner, a retired restauranteur from Indiana, who is looking for love in his golden years.

Hosted by Jesse Palmer, the series comes from Warner Bros Unscripted Television and is exec produced by Andrew Frank, Bennett Graebner, Claire Freeland and Jason Ehrlich.

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