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… 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… 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. … continue reading
Below Deck Captain Lee Rosbach on how real Bravo’s show is
The captain on Bravo’s Below Deck talks about how the show is cast and filmed, and reveals just how accurate the series is compared to actual yachting.
Bravo reality star Greg Plitt killed
Friends to Lovers? and Work Out cast member Greg Plitt, 37, was killed Saturday afternoon. He’s the second cast member from Work Out series to die. He was hit by a train in Burbank and was apparently filming with his own camera… continue reading
Andy Cohen sometimes feels bad about what he’s done
Andy Cohen was profiled on CBS Sunday Morning, the terrific newsmagazine show that rarely goes deep but is nearly always insightful, and Sunday it showed that the man who helped turn The Real Housewives franchise into an entire network’s focus and its… continue reading
Bravo’s Below Deck cast member did gay porn
“I was in the industry for a very brief time when I was really hard up, waiting tables,” David Bradberry said on the Bravo show.
Bravo’s shows mocked by SNL; Top Chef’s product placement mocked by The Onion
Top Chef‘s increasing product placement has become the subject of satire in The Onion, while SNL parodied Bravo’s Real Housewives-style shows and their spin-offs. The best part of The Onion’s video, below, is the cleverly edited Top Chef footage, which… continue reading