Thanks to a certain single dad, you won't be seeing a certain single woman on ABC for a while longer.

The network has decided to keep airing two-hour episodes of The Bachelor for the rest of its run this winter, thanks to fairly decent ratings for this cycle. That means that "Samantha Who?" which had been scheduled to return to ABC's Monday lineup next week, is for the moment homeless. The network says an announcement about the show's future -- which despite this development seems fairly solid -- will come in the next few days.

ABC's decision is a ratings-driven one, thanks to some gravity-defying numbers for current Bachelor Jason Mesnick. ABC has touted the appeal of the single dad, who was the final rejectee on "The Bachelorette" last summer, and it appears the network is right.

The audience for the show has grown in each of the past three weeks, starting with 8.7 million viewers for the Jan. 5 premiere, improving to 9.06 million the following week and hitting 9.9 million on Monday (Jan. 19) while winning all the key female demographics. Monday's improvement is all the more impressive considering the stiffer competition the show faced this week, with FOX's new "House"-"24" lineup and new episodes of CBS' comedies.

By comparison, the most recent edition of "The Bachelor," starring Londoner Matt Grant, and "The Bachelorette" both averaged 7.9 million viewers over their runs.

"Samantha Who?" had been doing reasonably well this year, averaging a little under 10 million viewers this week. But those numbers were mostly the result of airing after "Dancing with the Stars." When it didn't have the reality hit as a lead-in, its audience dropped below 7 million viewers.