LOS ANGELES, Sept 7 (Reuters) – Broadcast television networks kick off the fall TV season this month with strike-depleted lineups featuring game shows, reruns and a 72-year-old widower looking for love in the reality TV dating pool.
ABC’s “The Golden Bachelor,” in which 22 women aged 60 to 75 compete for the affection of a Midwestern grandfather, is among the unscripted series peppering prime-time schedules.
Over on Fox, no-nonsense chef Gordon Ramsay will work double shifts with shows airing on two nights. CBS (PARA.O) extended summer reality favorite “Big Brother” so it could run into November.
Networks are trying to fill gaps created when Hollywood writers walked off the job in May, shutting down comedy and drama sets just as they were gearing up to film fall shows. Actors joined the picket lines in July for the first dual Hollywood work stoppage in 63 years.
The fall season has been…
