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Can TV shows shut down spoiler sites?

Don’t expect Steve Carbone and “The Bachelor” producers to be swapping roses anytime soon.

Carbone, whose “Reality Steve” Web site specializes in revealing “Bachelor” spoilers, is fighting back against the show’s producers — who claim he violated an agreement not to contact “Bachelor” cast members, crew members and employees for inside dope about the show.

Carbone’s lawyer, Richard Davis, has filed a motion to dismiss the new charges, brought by show producers NZK Productions and Horizon Alternative Television after Carbone’s Web site (realitysteve.com) continued to post show spoilers.

“They’re asking for monetary damages and injunctive relief,” Davis told The Post.

“They’ve now filed a request to do some expedited discovery . . . to get our motion dismissed . . . which tells us they don’t have anything.”

“The Bachelor” producers first sued Carbone last year for trying to “induce contestants into breaching their confidentiality pledges,” according to the Hollywood Reporter.

In a second lawsuit, filed last month, they claim Carbone violated his original agreement, signed last May, in which he agreed not to initiate contact with “Bachelor” cast members, crew, etc. “They could come to him, but they would be violating their confidentiality agreement, presumably,” Davis said.

“But if someone came to Steve with information . . . he could talk to them.

“The agreement contained a provision that said if the producers believed Steve had breached the agreement, they were to send him notice of the breach, with evidence, and give him 10 days to respond,” Davis said.

“They didn’t do that, but went and filed suit. Our position is that they didn’t come forward with cause and they don’t have any evidence — that they’re just trying to . . . tweak this guy a little bit and keep him from spoiling any future [‘Bachelor’] seasons.”

“I stand by what I’ve said for months now and that’s that I’ve done nothing wrong to violate the terms of my agreement . . . and I will fight this as long as I have to,” Carbone wrote on his Web site.

“It’s a baseless lawsuit that should’ve never been filed in the first place.”

Attempts to reach lawyers for NZK Productions and Horizon Alternative Television were unsuccessful yesterday.

“The Bachelor” airs Monday night on ABC.