No Bachelor in 2026?! Inside the Franchise Shutdown | This Week in Bachelor Nation
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Game of Roses
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🗓️ 24 April 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
This Week in Bachelor Nation delivers a major State of the Game as BachelorClues and PaceCase break down the shocking announcement that the Bachelor franchise may be completely paused until 2027. With no 2026 season, a potential cruise collapse, and fallout from the Taylor Frankie Paul situation, the hosts analyze what this unprecedented shutdown means for the future of the game. Plus: Bachelor Nation News covers TFP stepping away from social media, production updates on Secret Lives, Alex Cooper’s Unwell drama, Nick Viall hosting Netflix reunions, and more Higgins heading to Dancing with the Stars. Is this a full franchise reset—or the beginning of the end?
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| 0:00.0 | It's the game of roses. Welcome to the game of roses. This is the game of roses. Welcome to the game of roses. Welcome to Game of Roses. This is Pace case. This is Bachelor Clues in the year 2026. |
| 0:23.8 | Oh, I thought we were getting 2027 clues for a second from here squinting. |
| 0:28.9 | We're not getting 2027 for a long time. |
| 0:32.2 | We're going to get into why that's bad. |
| 0:34.6 | No, don't say that. |
| 0:36.5 | But we do have some business, of course. That's bad. No, don't say that. In our state of the game. |
| 0:37.8 | But we do have some business. |
| 0:40.5 | Of course, we have new merch right now. |
| 0:43.4 | You've heard us say, build a better game. |
| 0:47.3 | Well, now you can wear that phrase on a new shirt. |
| 0:51.9 | You can get that plus a bunch of other stuff. |
| 0:54.0 | Go there and check out what we got. |
| 0:55.2 | Our old tarot card, 4TR shirt is up there. Some other stuff as well. Game of roses.org. |
| 1:00.7 | Everything is there. And if you're a patron on our Patreon, you get 10% discount on everything until |
| 1:08.5 | 1159 p.m. PT on Friday 424. |
| 1:13.1 | So that's tonight. |
| 1:14.7 | That's tonight. Get on it. |
| 1:16.6 | Get it while you can. |
| 1:18.8 | Fire sale. |
| 1:19.9 | Our Game of Rose. |
| 1:20.8 | There's still a little bit left to that as well, Game of Roses.Wine. |
| 1:24.1 | You can pick that up and it ships to almost anywhere in the United States, I'm told. |
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