After last airing on February 28, 2005, the series returned to ABC during the spring of 2008, following an absence of three years,[1] and has since become an annual staple of the network's summer programming.

The series has resulted in five marriages to date: Trista Rehn's to Ryan Sutter, Ashley Hebert's to JP Rosenbaum, Desiree Hartsock's to Chris Siegfried, Rachel Lindsay's to Bryan Abasolo, and JoJo Fletcher's to Jordan Rodgers.

The Bachelorette season 4 winner, Jesse Csincsak, commented that contestants must follow producers' orders and that a storyline was fabricated in the editing room.

[16] On March 15, 2010, The Bachelorette creator Mike Fleiss appeared on 20/20 to confess that he developed the show's contestants into characters that catered to his audience's tastes, and that they "need [their] fair share of villains every season".

[19] In 2018, Amy Kaufman published a book titled, Bachelor Nation: Inside the World of America's Favorite Guilty Pleasure.

This book provided insight on some of the manipulation tactics that producers employ in order to create drama and garner controversy as a ratings ploy.

Episodes have been filmed throughout the United States, Canada, Spain, Iceland, Turkey, Portugal, Thailand, China (Hong Kong only), Bermuda, England, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, France, Italy, Belgium and Ireland.

Due to the concerns surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, when the mansion was strictly restricted for filming purposes, the sixteenth and seventeenth seasons filmed entirely within the United States being isolated on a quarantine type bio-secure bubble atmosphere around a single location at the hotel or resort they rented by production.

[28] In the twenty-first season, the mansion was not used for filming purposes unrelated to the then-existing pandemic above, they used the Hummingbird Nest Ranch in Santa Susana, California previously appeared in the spin-off series The Bachelor Presents: Listen to Your Heart.

Bachelorettes from seasons 2 and 3, Meredith Phillips and Jen Schefft didn't make an appearance during the reunion special.

[80] Although host Chris Harrison claimed Meredith Phillips was unavailable to attend, Reality Steve reported her sending him the text "No, I was never contacted or spoke to anyone.