THE Bachelorette has switched up the schedule once again ahead of the Season 21 finale as ratings continue to fall. Jenn Tran's quest to find love is ending, but it won't air quite as scheduled. The Bachelorette fans will get to tune in to Jenn 's Fantasy Suite dates on Monday at 8pm ET on ABC.
She and her three finalists – Devin, Marcus, and Jonathon – will jet to Hawaii during the episode to enjoy some final one-on-one time before the finale. The highly-anticipated Men Tell All episode will air the following night, on Tuesday, August 27, at 8pm ET on ABC. Jenn will reunite with the men she started this journey with, including Aaron Erb, Thomas Nguyen, and Sam McKinney.
The Bachelorette Bachelor Nation will also likely get a glimpse at Grant Ellis' season of The Bachelor , as he has been announced as the Season 29 lead. The finale will not air the night after the Men Tell All, however. Fans will have to wait until Wednesday, September 3, at 8pm ET on ABC.
The episode will be three hours long and will include the After the Final Rose episode. Most read in Reality RATINGS DRAMA While the schedule change is likely due to the Labor Day holiday, which falls on Monday, September 2, there's been a lot of buzz about the Season 21 ratings. Ratings have slipped significantly from week to week.
The show premiered on Monday, July 8, with 2.801 million people tuning in, according to TVSeriesFinale.com .
The show saw a 15.17 percent drop in viewership the second week and has continued losing viewers throughout the season. Episode 4 dropped 16.
85 percent in viewership from the previous week, rising 11.62 percent the following week. The latest episode, which aired on August 19, saw another 9.
75 percent drop in viewership with only 2.314 million people tuning in. TOO MANY CHANGES It's unclear why fans haven't been consistently tuning in to The Bachelorette, but there have been a number of complaints from Bachelor Nation.
Season 21 - Jenn Tran Season 20 - Charity Lawson Season 19 - Gabby Windey & Rachel Recchia Season 18 - Michelle Young Season 17 - Katie Thurston Season 16 - Clare Crawley / Tayshia Adams Season 15 - Hannah Brown Season 14 - Becca Kufrin Season 13 - Rachel Lindsay Season 12 - JoJo Fletcher Season 11 - Kaitlyn Bristowe Season 10 - Andi Dorfman Season 9 - Desiree Hartsock Season 8 - Emily Maynard Season 7 - Ashley Hebert Season 6 - Ali Fedotowsky Season 5 - Jillian Harris Season 4 - DeAnna Pappas Season 3 - Jen Schefft Season 2 - Meredith Phillips Season 1 - Trista Rehn Last week, ABC switched up the show's schedule amid the 2024 Democratic National Convention . Viewers in some timezones – especially those in the Mountain Time and Pacific Time zones – faced major disruptions as they tuned in, and took to X to complain. For viewers in the Mountain Time zone, the first half of the two-hour episode aired as usual at 7 pm but ran until 10 pm, taking an hour-long break to show the DNC in between.
Those on the West Coast complained after the convention ran over time, pushing The Bachelorette's 8 pm start time. "Playing Bachelorette bingo with [President Joe] Biden’s DNC speech because ABC Network don’t [sic] know how TV schedules work," one X user complained of the delay. "The DNC running into Bachelorette’s air time.
..during hometown week.
..is unacceptable.
If I don’t see [host] Jesse Palmer on my screen in 30 seconds I’m boycotting this election," another person joked. A third comment said, "The dnc is holding me hostage waiting for the bachelorette when will this torture end." "Anyone else furious that the DNC is on when the Bachelorette is supposed to be on???" another user posted.
One frustrated fan added, "Listen DNC you have my vote, just give me Bachelorette hometowns already." During the episode, Jenn and her four finalists, Devin, Jeremy, Jonathan, and Marcus, visited their friends and families. As she prepared to eliminate one of the four men, Jenn confessed that she was "definitely falling for all these men.
" In the end, she eliminated Jeremy, sending him back to Fairfield, Connecticut. Jenn explained her decision in a confessional, revealing, "[Jeremy was] someone that I wanted to see a future with, but I just didn’t see it fully there." Jenn, a 26-year-old PA student and Bachelor Nation's first Asian-American lead, must now evaluate her remaining connections before giving out her final rose.
UNREAL? In addition to complaints about scheduling, Bachelorette fans have speculated that the show is scripted . Earlier this month, viewers hurled the allegation after Jenn's ex-boyfriend Matt made a surprise appearance to try and win her back. "Scripted and staged.
I guess they needed some excitement," one Instagram user complained. Read More on The US Sun "I am just so disappointed in Jesse Palmer and the Bachelorette producers to derail her journey like this," wrote a second. "Just jumped the shark.
Not interested in the games producers play," slammed a third viewed..
