Jennifer Love Hewitt is the individual to thank for the 9-1-1 and The Bachelor crossover on ABC.
The I Know What You Did Final Summer season star is a fan of the courting actuality sequence, and when the first-responder sequence obtained picked up by ABC after being canceled by Fox, she pitched a crossover to Tim Menear, the present’s co-creator and showrunner.
“The entire crossover episode happened as a result of Jennifer Love Hewitt referred to as me after she went to one of many finales of The Bachelor,” Minear informed Leisure Weekly in an interview. “She’s an enormous fan of The Bachelor and she or he mentioned, ‘Wouldn’t it’s nice if the 118 responded to a name on the Bachelor mansion?’”
Minear mentioned the individuals at The Bachelor “had been unbelievably supportive and useful” in making the crossover occur.
“They volunteered to point out us the ropes about how they make the present, after which once we shot it. We really introduced within the Bachelor crew to shoot the primary a part of that case, in order that it actually was The Bachelor,” Minear continued. “After which we go into 9-1-1 world once they must name 9-1-1. In order that’s the way it happened. It simply appeared like an excellent concept.”
The fourth episode of 9-1-1’s seventh season, “Buck Bothered and Bewildered,” will characteristic The Bachelor’s Joey Graziadei within the ABC drama sequence.
Watch a preview of the crossover within the video beneath.