ABC is planning to show Clare Crawley's The Bachelorette season this fall

Variety

“If I’m being realistic, it would probably be mid-summer that we start,” ABC reality boss Robert Mills tells Variety of filming Clare's season, which had to shut down due to the coronavirus quarantine just as it was to begin filming. Mills insists that Clare's season won't be canceled. “We’ve looked at everything — are travel restrictions going to ease up? And it just doesn’t look like anything is changing anytime soon, and what we would rather do is start getting the season underway, sooner rather than later,” says Mills. “As of right now, the plan is to get a great location that has a ton of space where everybody could safely be together and we can still have great dates that still feel big and romantic, and we would shoot the entire season there.” Host Chris Harrison emphasizes, however, that nothing is certain. “It would be crazy for us to say that we know what anything is going to look like — not even television, I’m just talking the world in general,” says Harrison. “We don’t know when we come out of this, what it’s going to look like as far as getting back to social distancing, can you get 10 people in a control room? Can you get 20 people in a control room? How are we going to shoot this safely?”