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Recommended: Tabloid Wars, a Bravo reality show filmed at the paper that just fired half its staff
Tabloid Wars aired just six episodes on Bravo back in 2006, and went behind the scenes of The New York Daily News’ daily reporting. It’s still great reality TV.
A new Bravo show merges Real Housewives with Mad Men and a terrific 2000s era format
Bravo announced eight new series in development that suggest the network is looking to move outside of the rut it’s dug for itself for years now.
Bravo renewed these 5 Real Housewives and 8 reality shows, and ordered 10 new shows
Vanderpump Rules, Flipping Out, and Shahs of Sunset are among the shows Bravo renewed today.
Tabatha Coffey’s return on Relative Success with Tabatha is relatively successful
A review of Relative Success with Tabatha, Tabatha Coffey’s new Bravo show on which she helps struggling businesses, but it isn’t quite like her previous series—starting with the fact that she hugs someone.
Review: Bravo’s Stripped, which takes away participants’ things for 21 days
A review of Stripped, the Bravo reality show on which people give up all their possessions for 21 days, including their clothing.
Tabatha Coffey is finally coming back to Bravo
Tabatha Coffey, a break-out star from Bravo’s days of competition reality TV, will be back on Bravo in 2018—almost two years after her new series was first announced. Bravo announced the follow-up to Tabatha Takes Over, which is called Relative Success with Tabatha, in April 2016. On the series, which debuts Jan. 17, Tabatha helps… continue reading
Reviews: A Night with My Ex and Spouse House, two new social experiments
Reviews of TLC’s Spouse House, where singles have to get married or are evicted, and Bravo’s A Night With My Ex, on which former partners reconnect.
Bravo renewed these 16 reality shows
A list of the 14 reality shows Bravo renewed today, plus the two it previous renewed. Also: new spin-offs for a RHONY star and two MDL:NY stars.
How much Below Deck: Mediterranean passengers will pay, and what they get
A second season of Below Deck: Mediterranean is on its way, thanks to the show becoming Bravo’s “fastest growing show over the past three years among” people 25 to 54. That means it needs new passengers who will become key temporary cast members, making outrageous demands and adding drama while the yacht sails around.
The seven intriguing new shows Bravo is developing
One month ago, Bravo announced three new shows that sounded just like Housewives shows, plus three others shows—including Tabatha Coffey’s return to the network—and renewed 11 series that are all Housewives-style. It was more of the same, which is understandable, since it works for the network. Today, though, Bravo announced seven shows that are in development, and not one sounds… continue reading
Tabatha Coffey is back! Plus: Bravo renews 13 shows, mostly Housewives
Bravo’s upfront announcements today included the return of one of the network’s former stars, plus a whole lot of shows using The Real Housewives model.
Here’s the full list of renewed, returning, and new series.
Recipe for Deception has a surprise inside all its rules and lies
Oh no, I thought. Bravo is ripping off Cutthroat Kitchen, really? That, I admit, was my first reaction to the announcement of Bravo’s Recipe for Deception, which debuts tonight at 10 p.m. I love cooking competitions, but I was not eager to see another dumbed-down show that screws with people instead of just letting them cook. And Bravo advertising the show with “from the producers of Cutthroat Kitchen” just seemed to confirm that this was exactly their goal: targeting Food Network viewers.
Recipe for Deception is not, however, dumbed-down. If anything, it’s the opposite.
Andy Cohen’s surprisingly astute Real Housewives-candidate analogies
Bravo’s Andy Cohen used his appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday night to discuss politics, and ended up comparing the candidates to stars of The Real Housewives. This was, surprisingly, a pretty good way of explaining what’s happening. Also of note: During the aftershow conversation, and said that The Real Housewives of Potomac wasn’t… continue reading
Below Deck Captain Lee Rosbach on how real Bravo’s show is
Most of Bravo’s programming has become versions of The Real Housewives, with rich people acting like assholes for our entertainment, and its series Below Deck is no exception. It’s The Real Housewives on a yacht, with the same requisite drama. But there are two major differences: One is that this is an actual yacht and the cast… continue reading