It’s time to bring out the Viagra in the old folk’s home because The Golden Bachelor is coming to Australia! That’s right, the sun may have set on the Bachelor franchise we know and barely watched love but there’s a new format coming to our screens featuring a whole heap of golden oldies.
According to TV Blackbox, the series will be premiering on Channel Nine next year and is expected to be announced in the network’s upcoming upfronts, the event where they share their latest slate of content.
If you’re not across the concept, let me put you on. The Golden Bachelor is a spin-off of the Bachelor franchise but instead of featuring a slew of young people, it follows a bunch of singles in their golden years — silver foxes and silver baddies, if you will — as they date a heap of suitors to find love in their elder age.
It was first trialled in the United States with 72-year-old GILF Gerry Turner, a retired widower. The series was incredibly successful in numbers and in results. It ended with Gerry getting hitched to 71-year-old contestant Theresa Nist in a live television special broadcasting their wedding.
Sadly for the cute couple, it wasn’t meant to be and they got divorced three months later but it was a television spectacle nonetheless!!!!
The news that a Golden Bachelor series is coming to Australia is incredibly exciting. As an entertainment reporter who has covered reality dating shows for years, I’ve noted a consistent theme on social media from the public — people want more realistic love stories. One way to do that? Find older contestants who are truly ready to settle down rather than those who are attempting to gain their 15 minutes of fame.
In Australia, it seems like networks have been pretty resistant to having older people on a dating show. Well, with the exception of another Channel Nine series called My Mum, Your Dad, which saw kids navigate the love lives of their parents.
Even in fictional films and television, it’s pretty rare to see later-stage love represented on screen when it’s not a couple who have been together for decades. Especially not in a sexy little dating capacity.
Maybe it’s confronting for people to think of their parents and grandparents as complete beings with a sex life? Whatever it is, representation for all is a wonderful thing and I’m stoked that the old-timers will be getting their own shot at love on screen. I just hope that they ask Osher Günsberg to jump ship to Channel Nine so he can host.
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