Popular TV show, The Bachelor will start its production later this month. According to sources, the filming will be under strict rules as to be safe from the COVID virus.

The Bachelor chosen this year is a professional football player, Matt James and the forecasted release of The Bachelor will be January 2021.

The female counterpart of the show, The Bachelorette, has recently wrapped up filming, starring Clare Crawley will also be released in January.

The Bachelor filming will only be done in one location to lower the possibility for the cast to be infected with the COVID virus.

Matt James will be the first black ‘Bachelor’ in TV history. Heavy protest by the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement has given The Bachelor a reason to hire a black ‘Bachelor’ for the show.

Originally, Matt James was a cast as one of the men in ‘The Bachelorette’, he is part of several men vying for the heart of Clare Crawley. The TV show is highly anticipated and has become an iconic show and has a major following in America.

‘The Bachelor’ announcement comes normally after ‘The Bachelorette’ finishes airing. The most popular guy on the show is chosen to be the next star of ‘The Bachelor’ but due to the epidemic as well as the media pressure to cast more people of color on the TV show, Matt James’s casting seemed to be fast-tracked.

“When filming [on Clare's season of The Bachelorette] couldn’t move forward as planned, we were given the benefit of time to get to know Matt and all agreed he would make a perfect Bachelor,” ABC Entertainment's president Karey Burke told Good Morning America.

The move by ABC has been criticized by many as it has been put into consideration that the casting of Matt James is only due to the surmounting attention that ‘Black Lives Matter’ has gotten and the fact that there has been a constant growing pressure on big media production companies to cast people of color as leads on shows and movies.

ABC denied these allegations commenting that Matt James has always been in their ‘radar’ to be the next ‘Bachelor’ and that the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement had no influence over their decision to cast him as the leading man of the show.

Matt James has expressed his joy in being cast as the first black bachelor and is excited for the filming to start. All eyes are on him for the next season.