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Bravo renews Real Housewives of Atlanta

Duncan Riley — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 03:12:55 +0000

Bravo has renewed reality series The Real Housewives of Atlanta.

The decision to renew the show, the third in a series following The Real Housewives of Orange County and The Real Housewives of New York City came after high ratings for the series, averaging 1.3 million adults 18-49 over its first season for 1.5 million total viewers. According to Variety, the seasons reunion special attracted 2.8 million viewers.

The series follows the professional, social and family lives of five primarily wealthy women who live in the suburbs of Atlanta.

BlogHer Nabs New Deal With NBC

JR — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:43:52 +0000

Female blogging community BlogHer is joining forces with NBC in a powerful new partnership.

The company has announced a deal with NBC Universal to feature BlogHer content on iVillage, NBC’s female-focused online service. Posts will also appear on Oxygen.com and BravoTV.com as part of the arrangement, and BlogHer will in turn feature content from those sites on its front page.

BlogHer will get $5 million in funding along with the partnership, provided by a series B investment from Peacock Equity (co-owned by NBC Universal and GE Commercial Finance).

BlogHer’s co-founders say the deal should increase earning potential for its bloggers because of the added advertising opportunities. BlogHer has been around since 2005 and boasts about 2,200 bloggers within its publishing network.

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East Coast, West Coast Rivalries, Housewives Style

Meieli Sawyer — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:17:18 +0000

Quite predictably, the Housewives of New York and the OC have got their backs up about. . . ridiculous, petty stuff. I’m sure that you aren’t surprised in the least, if you’ve ever seen the show where they fight about tennis, seating arrangements, dinner plans, and behind-the-back catty little convos.

This time, the OC and New York Housewives united to practice their script for the Bravo A-List Awards. Bethenny Frankel, in all her loud glory, revealed to People that the problem may have started when OC Houswife Jeana Tomasina said that she didn’t like the script they were practicing. Bethenny told People:

“They [The O.C. Housewives] said in our material that my apartment is a two-by-four, and it’s actually a one-by-two, and so I can take it, I don’t care. But they’re offended that I’m saying something about them living 65 miles from the beach. Jeana said, ‘I don’t think that’s funny.’”

Some reports hint that Bethenny might have gotten into a scratch-fest with Tamra Barney afterwards, who said that “Bethenny scratched me a little bit. I swear to god. She tried to get me from behind and I put my arm up, and she scratched me. I covered it with makeup.’”

NY Housewife Jill contradicted Tamra’s gossip, saying that Bethenny just “gave a dressing down” to one OC houswife backstage.

Should it come to a fight, my money’s on New York.

Image: Bravo, Heidi Gutman