Five years after he left The Bachelor, Chris Harrison is back in the dating-show business. The Vow, Fox Nation’s first-ever dating series, premieres today, Wednesday 11 November, and it arrives with a legal row already attached.

“I’m so excited to be back helping people find love,” Harrison said. “I believe we’ve created the most authentic dating show on television today.”

How The Vow works

The Vow is built around commitment rather than drama. One lead, 30-year-old Jace Cates, meets 10 women, and through a series of decisions and honest conversations they talk through faith, family, communication and their plans for the future to find out whether a relationship could lead to marriage.

Harrison says the show was “inspired by the faith-driven renaissance happening across America” and asks one central question: “Can genuine, lasting love still be found in the modern world?”

Where to watch The Vow

Premiere: Wednesday 11 November 2026
Platform: Fox Nation (streaming)
Host: Chris Harrison
Lead: Jace Cates, 30
Producer: Lionsgate Alternative Television

The Bachelor cease-and-desist

Not everyone is happy about Harrison’s return. On 18 September 2026, two days after Fox Nation released the first teaser, Warner Bros. TV’s lawyers sent a cease-and-desist letter to Fox Nation and Lionsgate Alternative Television.

The letter claimed the marketing “improperly capitalizes on WB’s intellectual property and goodwill” in The Bachelor franchise, pointing in particular to the trailer’s red roses, which it called a “direct copy” of franchise promotional material. It accused Fox Nation of trying to “ride on the coattails” of the show.

Fox Nation hit back on 24 September. Its lawyers said Warner Bros. has no rights to a falling-roses image or to using “the bachelor” as a general term for a single man, called the move “malicious and vindictive” and urged the studio to drop what it called “meritless claims”.

Why Chris Harrison left The Bachelor

Harrison hosted The Bachelor franchise for almost two decades before leaving in 2021. His exit followed a backlash over his support of contestant Rachael Kirkconnell, who had been criticised for attending an antebellum plantation-themed party in 2018.

Chris Harrison’s career

Harrison became the face of reality dating TV as host of The Bachelor from its launch in 2002, and later The Bachelorette and Bachelor in Paradise. Away from the franchise he hosted the syndicated version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and the Miss America pageant.

Since leaving the franchise he has mostly stayed out of TV, so The Vow is his first big hosting job in five years.

What is Fox Nation?

Fox Nation is Fox News Media’s subscription streaming service, launched in 2018. It mainly carries lifestyle, history, true crime and faith programming, and The Vow is its first dating series. Episodes are available only to subscribers.

Will it work?

Harrison is still one of the most recognisable faces in reality dating TV, and The Vow leans on that. Whether The Vow can pull viewers to a smaller streaming service like Fox Nation, while a rival studio watches every rose closely, is the real test.