Mark your calendars for a TV date night, as ABC launches two new series on Monday, April 13. The evening will kick off with the premiere of The Bachelor Presents: Listen to Your Heart followed by The Baker and the Beauty.
What’s happening:
- This spring, ABC turns up the romance with the compelling new modern-day fairy tale The Baker and the Beauty premiering Monday, April 13 (10:00-11:00 pm EDT), following the premiere of the all-new Bachelor Nation series, The Bachelor Presents: Listen to Your Heart.
VICTOR RASUK, NATHALIE KELLEY
The Baker and the Beauty
- The Baker and the Beauty will take viewers on a flavor-filled adventure between relatable everyman Daniel and international superstar Noa.
- “Daniel Garcia is working in the family bakery and doing everything that his loving Cuban parents and siblings expect him to do. But on a wild Miami night, he meets Noa Hamilton and his life moves into the spotlight. Will this unlikely couple upend their lives to be together and pull their families into a culture clash?”
- The Baker and the Beauty was originally slated to premiere on April 6th, but has since been pushed back to the 13th.
MICHELLE VEINTIMILLA, BELISSA ESCOBEDO, LISA VIDAL, CARLOS GÓMEZ, VICTOR RASUK, NATHALIE KELLEY, DAVID DEL RIO, DAN BUCATINSKY
The series stars:
- Victor Rasuk as Daniel Garcia
- Nathalie Kelley as Noa Hamilton
- Carlos Gómez as Rafael Garcia
- Dan Bucatinsky as Lewis
- Lisa Vidal as Mari Garcia
- David Del Rio as Mateo Garcia
- Belissa Escobedo as Natalie
- Michelle Veintimilla as Vanessa
Creative team:
- The Baker and the Beauty is based on the hit Israeli show created by Assi Azar originally for Keshet Broadcasting.
- Executive produced by:
- Keshet’s Avi Nir
- Alon Shtruzman
- Peter Traugott
- Rachel Kaplan
- Assi Azar
- Jim Chory
- Steve Pearlman
- Dean Georgaris is the writer/executive producer and showrunner.
- David Frankel executive produces and directed the pilot and episode two.
- Becky Hartman Edwards executive produced the pilot and second episode.
- The series is produced by Universal Television and ABC Studios in association with Keshet Studios.
The Bachelor Presents: Listen to Your Heart
- The Bachelor Presents: Listen to Your Heart unites two of the most emotionally powerful forces in human life: music and love, as 20 single men and women embark on an incredible journey to find love through music.
- Singing well-known songs, both individually and as couples, they will look to form attractions through the melodies, find and reveal their feelings, and ultimately fall in love.
- The eligible bachelors and bachelorettes will meet and explore their relationships while living together and going on Bachelor-style dates that focus on music.
- Once the couples commit to each other, it will be time to take their relationship to the next level.
- The harmony of the couples will be tested through musical challenges, including live performances judged by some of the biggest names in the music business.
- Ultimately, the couples whose performances reveal their love and devotion to one another will continue to be given a chance to further their relationships until only one couple is left standing.
Creative team:
- The Bachelor Presents: Listen to Your Heart is a production of Next Entertainment in association with Warner Horizon Unscripted Television.
- Executive produced by:
- Mike Fleiss
- Martin Hilton
- Nicole Woods
- Bennett Graebner
- Louis Caric