The bachelor

• Ladies and Gentlemen: Meet Ben Flajnik (pronounced Flah-nik): Californian, wine maker, professional Bachelor. Fans of the franchise will recognize the shell of the man left gutted by his brush with true love on The Bachelorette.
(Time)
• Just in time for the New Year, The Bachelor is back -- like a virus.
(MSN TV)
• Monday night featured new programs on two of the major networks. ABC premiered its new season of The Bachelor to embarrassing numbers, while CBS aired the first new episodes of its popular sitcoms and Hawaii Five-0.
(The Celebrity Cafe.com)
• The season premieres of The Bachelor with Ben Flajnik premierred on Monday, January 2, 2012. ABC promises tears and drama for the next episode, which airs on Monday, January 9, 2012 at 8:00-10:01 p.m. ET on the ABC Television Network.
(Examiner)
• Dryden (WSYR-TV) -- A 25-year-old registered nurse from a small town in Central New York has found herself in the national spotlight. She's now one of the remaining 18 contestants on ABC's hit reality show The Bachelor.
(NewsChannel 9 WSYR)
• It's a new year and that means the TV networks have opened the floodgates for new series, returning series and spin-offs galore.
(Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog))
• Hair fetishists, lesbians, and Grandma Sheryls everywhere were overjoyed when the season premiere of the "Bachelor" finally arrived last night.
(comcast.net)
• Screw you and the horse you rode in on. This season, 25 single ladies get the opportunity to woo Mr. Sloppy Seconds from last season's "The Bachelorette" — the less-than-hunky Ben Flajnik.
(Baltimore Sun)
• Ben reportedly engaged to Courtney Robertson in this new ,very revealing "The Bachelor" 2012 spoiler. Well, the new season kicked off last night. However,we all know that this thing was pretaped,and the chick has already been picked.
(OnTheFlix)