ABC will search for love and beauty on Monday nights in January with the latest incarnation of The Bachelor and a new show from Tyra Banks and Ashton Kutcher.

The network has set a Monday, Jan. 5 premiere date for the 13th installment of The Bachelor, starring previous Bachelorette rejectee Jason Mesnick. It will be joined that night by the debut of True Beauty, the top-secret beauty pageant show produced by Banks (America’s Next Top Model) and Kutcher (Beauty and the Geek).

Mesnick, a 32-year-old single father, was a fan favorite on The Bachelorette over the summer and was chose as the next Bachelor after DeAnna Pappas rejected him in the July 7 finale. (Pappas and the guy she did pick, Jesse Csincsak, recently broke up.)

The Bachelor will begin its season with a two-hour premiere at 8 p.m. ET Jan. 5. The show will take up its regular 90-minute spot the following week, with comedy Samantha Who? staying put at 9:30. True Beauty will air at 10 p.m. Mondays.

Details about the latter show remain a closely guarded secret. We know it involves a beauty pageant and contestants living together, and now we know the title, but that’s it.

Source: Zap2It