Here’s the Latest on Bachelor in Paradise and The Bachelorette , Courtesy of Chris Harrison

Less than a month ago, Peter and Madison were still in their exploratory dating phase, Chris Harrison was extending an invite to Hannah Ann to join Paradise, and Clare Crawley’s season of The Bachelorette was 36 hours away from filming. Then, of course, the world changed when the coronavirus pandemic shut down everything from TV and movie productions to sporting events.

The health and well-being of citizens around the world is all that matters, which is why the most important thing we can do right now is stay home. But while we’re home, it's perfectly normal to want new episodes of your favorite shows—something Harrison understands all too well.

“Believe me, I’m at the front of the line of people that are hopeful of keeping all of this alive,” Chris Harrison tells Glamour of summer staples The Bachelorette and Bachelor in Paradise, which are currently on hold. “[Bachelor creator] Mike Fleiss, [ABC senior vice president of alternative] Rob Mills, myself, and all the producers talk every other day, if not every day, about how we can create more and more content.”

The good news? We won’t have to go all spring without new Bachelor content. The Bachelor Presents: Listen to Your Heart, which was filmed before the pandemic, premieres Monday, April 13, and will wrap its six-week run at the end of May.

“The new show gives everybody a nice escape and a good break,” Harrison says, though he recognizes that Bachelor fans want their tried and true franchises back. “We’re looking at all kinds of creative ways,” he says. “Maybe it is a check-in or a reunion show, or maybe it’s creating some other type of show about The Bachelor that we can get on the air immediately.”

In a typical calendar year, The Bachelorette begins filming in mid March for a mid-to-late-May premiere. Even if they were to begin filming now, they would be nearly a month behind schedule. Meanwhile, Bachelor in Paradise begins filming in early June—once The Bachelorette is finished—and premieres in early August. Considering that plenty of Bachelorette contestants end up making their way down to Paradise, it would be hard to adhere to that time frame by early June given the current stay-at-home orders across the country.

“Obviously the longer this goes, the tougher it’s going to be, logistics-wise and calendar and all that,” Harrison says. (Not to mention, many of the same producers and crew work on The Bachelorette and BiP, so it wouldn’t be easy to film both shows at the same time.) “First and foremost, when we get back, we have to safely figure out how can we produce The Bachelorette. When can we start shooting? It’s not like there’s going to be a day, say May 1, if the governor and president decide that we can all [resume work], and then boom, we have a television show. That’s not how it works. That just means we can go to work and start producing a television show."

While Harrison knows it’s not the news fans want to hear, he also wants to keep things realistic. “Months are going to go by before we can get something on the air, so we’re trying to look at two things: One, how can we immediately service everybody and create content? And two, how quickly can we go back to The Bachelorette, BiP, The Bachelor and fit it all in?” Most important, he says, the schedule will be dependent on people being able to leave their homes and safely go back to work. “Unless it’s safe and unless we can do it right, there's no chance we’re doing it at all.”

When the time comes to start preproduction on The Bachelorette, it won't be business as usual, Harrison knows. And the show will reflect that. “Clearly the world is going to look very different when we all come out of quarantine,” he says. “Work, our economy, our government, love, relationships, dating—it’s all going to be different. But The Bachelor and The Bachelorette have always been really good about embracing pop culture—embracing culture in general—and really showing what’s going on. That is going to be one of those things that we’re going to have to embrace.”

He continues, “How do people date now in the modern world? Does Clare walk around with a thermometer? I mean, who knows? But obviously when we do get there, we will have the strictest, safest measures put in place. That is why we shut production down in the first place.”

The Bachelor Presents: Listen to Your Heart premieres Monday, April 13, at 8 p.m. (7 p.m. Central) on ABC.

Jessica Radloff is the Glamour West Coast editor. You can follow her on Instagram at @jessicaradloff14.

Originally Appeared on Glamour