Elaine Low Senior TV Writer“Bar Rescue,” the bar makeover show born just a handful of years after the Great Recession, is now entering its eighth season — and hitting a milestone 200th episode — as a battered hospitality business once again attempts to emerge from another economic downturn, this time caused by the devastating COVID-19 pandemic.Host and executive producer Jon Taffer says to expect the upcoming season on Paramount Network to be an emotional one — “more emotional than any other we’ve done in the past because these people aren’t failures.
These are people who are running successful businesses and the pandemic or Mother Nature, if you will, took their businesses away from them.
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