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To be fair, even with ATL we've heard hardly anything. With Beverly Hills we've heard NOTHING but vague rumors of Lisa Rinna being involved in the drama, yet she said she gets along with everybody. Then with Eileen, Yolanda, Kim and Brandi we've heard NOTHING. To contrast, we heard endless juicy things about RHONJ and it's been a mostly quiet season with bits of drama here and there. I'm going to wait for a trailer before proclaiming Beverly Hills to have a boring season.

Adrienne and Camille are both making appearances, so is Taylor. They are just going to be Friends of the Housewives and I don't expect them to have regular appearances.

Her original look reminded me of a Vegas stripper. I hated how they looked in those early seasons.

My guess is that Eileen and Lisa will both be full wives since they fired both Joyce and Carlton.

Kyle has always been gorgeous, but she's never had good fashion sense. She often wears things that are just incredibly unflattering on her body. Still, nice to see pictures of Eileen filming. It's so weird how secretive Beverly Hills is, yet we have endless pictures of the ATL girls together. They've been really careful not even showing pictures on Instagram with Lisa Rinna or Eileen. Switching gears a bit, according to Tamra Tattles, the Jacqueline scenes we'll see were shot in July and they were told to wear winter clothes so they would blend in with the other footage. I absolutely believe it. They saw the ratings, panicked and instead of waiting until next season to fix things, they decided to boost Kathy and Rosie's screentime and bring back Jacqueline. Even though she won't be interacting with the other ladies, I think they view it as okay because at least viewers will be able to see her.

I love Allison Stewart, but I wouldn't want them to bring her on and then we'd have to deal with the accusations of nepotism. I must say I'm not thrilled with the names being passed around. I understand wanting to go into a less tabloid version, but a lot of these names aren't even well known within their own field so it makes me wonder how well they are going to do on a major network. MSNBC and CNN have terrible ratings so using people from those networks doesn't immediately make me confident. I wish we were hearing a combination of news names and entertainers bandied about. Hell, I even strongly believe there are reality stars who would fit in well, namely Alex McCord (which I realize would never happen).

As much as I love Dina and hate Jacqueline, I do hope they are thrown together at least once. I know I'm evil, but I want to see the fireworks.

Jacqueline is REALLY back, here is the midseason trailer for RHONJ: http://www.bravotv.com/blogs/the-dish/jacqueline-laurita-is-returning-to-rhonj My guess is that this wasn't planned and she truly was meant to be just filming Manzo'ed w/ Children. When they saw the season was a little dull they probably decided to take some of her footage and use it for RHONJ. Notice in what they showed us she doesn't seem to interact with anybody except Teresa (and that wasn't even face-to-face), Kathy and Rosie. It'll be interesting to see how it's edited overall and if she was secretly at some of these events. In other news, E!'s poll for the best housewife is down to for people: Vicki vs Shannon, both from RHOC and Kenya vs Caroline. That speaks to Shannon's popularity that she could end up in the Top 4 out of ALL the housewives of all the series. Granted, this is no scientific poll, I just am constantly amazed and how well everybody took to her. Bravo did a GREAT job casting her.

I didn't like New York, but Hollywood looks good. And I know this is strange, but I never watched this season of ATL after hearing of the early focus on Mimi and her sex tape. I'm finally watching it and it actually isn't bad. It's very watchable.

Joseline is the only reason to ever watch this show. If she isn't on the next season i won't be watching.

I'm working on uploading it. Hopefully tomorrow will have some vids for yall! I do have one question...what do people think of Dennis Cole as Lance? He seems like a good actor, but he is physically so different from John McCook that I don't know how I feel about this. I definitely can't picture him holding the fort down as one of Y&R's leading men going into the 80s.

I agree with him on that because Lorie would've been hard to recast. I think he should've cut her some sort of deal with less screentime or something to keep her. I know he hated the hour transition himself. It still makes me sad to think that Jamie was on DAYS for all those years when it should've been the second coming of the Brooks family. I know they probably used her well, but I feel Y&R is where she was needed. Not bringing this family back is one of the biggest missed opportunities of all time. I also always get upset when John McCook as Eric Forrester. I find that so disrespectful to Y&R viewers since he already played such a popular Y&R character. Personally I think Justin Hartley (much like I felt about Steve Burton) should be on this show as Brooks Prentiss with Lorie or Leslie brought on to re-introduce the family and you could also have special appearances from John McCook as Lance to flesh things out. It would be an interesting scenario since Leslie gave birth to Brooks, but Lorie raised him and then you have the sordid details of his birth as well. It would be an easy family to re-establish with just a few good flashbacks and some killer character interaction. Lorie and Nikki have such an awesome relationship as well. So much to be gained from utilizing them!

I'm watching more of my Brooks family edits and this stuff is sooooooooo good! Right now there is a good chunk of Lorie figuring out that Leslie was pregnant with Lance's child. Jamie Lyn Bauer is a true star. I can't believe she never won an Emmy. She is so grand. Victoria Mallory is also much better than I expected. I'd mostly only seen episodes with Janice Lynde so I just decided she was the good Leslie. The only episodes I'd seen with Victoria previously were the reunion at Nikki and Victor's first wedding where she didn't really do much. It's a shame Bill Bell couldn't have thrown more money and kept Lorie and Leslie around. I love their relationship. Chris and Peggy could've kicked rocks, but Lorie and Leslie needed to stick around. I know one of you fabulous posters offered to help me upload this stuff. If someone can PM me on how to do this I really want to get it online for you guys! This stuff is so good and I haven't seen ANY of it online.

Shannon was not only the MVP, but she was VERY popular. I noticed it on WWHL, even when she didn't appear she would win the polls. I think they were surprised by how well received she was. I know I was! I also don't think Tamra is going anywhere. She has already said she will be back and I think with her they never have to worry about her asking for too much money. She will take what she can get.

If Kenya is pregnant and has a man that will be epic.

Phaedra and Nene's relationship is simply due to convenience. They don't really like each other. Now I must say, I don't think Marlo is on the trip because all of the pictures she's posting are alone and not with the other ladies. I think if she were there the reports would include her because we know she would be the center of attention.

I hate how they treat Sonja like she's been there for the beginning. I loved her in season 3, but watching season 4 right now I see how quickly she became so tiresome. What happened to that confident, sexy woman from season 3? She just became so delusional and that has gotten old to watch.

I think Bravo should've just aired RHOMelbourne in primetime to help bridge the gap between Beverly Hills and OC. I wonder if they'll premiere BH earlier, perhaps October, simply so Mondays do go without programming for too long.

The past couple of episodes of RHONJ have been pretty boring I'll agree. I think they made a mistake with Amber. I think they should've tried for non-Italian wives so they'd have a bigger pool of women to choose from. There are too many NJ reality shows out there going after this same type of person so a lot of the bigger personalities are tied up with other shows. Had they simply cast someone who was interesting they'd have a better chance of sparks. I will say that Dina is the main draw for me, she and Teresa simply need more interesting people to interact with.

I love that Arena is already building buzz by revealing the cast. That obviously didn't hurt season one as the drama all felt natural and the show was excellently produced. If anything, it helped build an awareness worldwide before they'd even shot their first frame. Smart move IMO. Now I just finished RHOC reunion and it was pretty quiet. I think overall this season has been very mature and more similar to the early years than anything, so I'm not surprised the reunion is more tame. We had good discussions, but for the most part it was civil and there wasn't the need to rehash certain things over and over just for drama. I like that about the show. I think this reboot has been very successful and if there isn't much turnover they are in a good place for the next season. They REALLY lucked out with Shannon. I never expected her to be as popular as she was. I thought she was going to be the boring one in the background and that Lizzie was going to be the new face of the franchise. I'm sure that's what they hoped as well, for Lizzie AND Danielle. I think what actually ended up happening is better for the show in the long term. Shannon is closer in age to the other girls and has more in common with them.

I don't give a DAMN what anybody says, I think season 4 of RHONY is great and holds up. I just watched the first episode and it is as good as I remember. No surprise it retained all of the viewers from the previous season. Alex looks great and is on fire. Ramona is as delightfully slow as ever. Jill is a raving bitch trying her BEST to hold it in (that lasted half an episode). Kelly is still nuts, but she's lucid and has clearly practiced her lines so she comes off well. Despite everybody hating on her I don't mind Cindy either. Her biggest problem was being Bethenny's replacement and being nothing like Bethenny. They should've had Carole Radziwill this season and everything would've been fine.

WOW. I'm back in. If Marlo is going on the trip then she's AT LEAST recurring, although she needs to be a wife.

I think it's Kenya. I still am not sure Marlo will be around much if at all.

I'm re-watching season 3 of RHONY and this is truly the greatest season of any housewives series. Period. No competition and nothing comes close. The build up from the previous two seasons and the Bethenny vs Jill feud is such a page turner. Each housewife is equally pulling her own weight and the new addition (Sonja) is flawless. Somehow it doesn't feel too heavy with the Bethenny vs Jill feud at the center! One thing I can't understand re-watching it is just how poorly Lu Ann and Jill came off. Jill comes off truly evil, more evil than some of the worst soap villains of all time. What a horrible mis-calculation on her part. I wish we knew more behind the scenes stuff for other series. Of course thanks to WWHL we know Jill pitched this feud as her story to Andy, a big fight with Bethenny and then they would make up. Andy told her that would be a HUGE mistake, but she didn't listen and didn't clue Bethenny in on the plan. You can see genuine confusion from Bethenny over Jill turning something minor into such a nasty thing and I just watched the episode where Jill realizes Bethenny is done with her forever and that this plan won't work. It was a glorious moment. The look on Jill's face was priceless. From that point on of course you had to deal with Jill trying to grovel, but Bethenny wasn't having any of that. Pretty epic stuff. I can't wait until Kelly loses her mind.

Ah! Heather Tom is such a glorious little demon child! I can't wait to see what she does to Ashley. Brenda Epperson is just flawless. The best Ashley. I wish she acted more. I loved her brief stint on Passions as well. The highlight of April 11 episode is that Leanna and Jill spend an entire episode talking about Leanna's haircut and how it will impact the bottom line at Jabot. Of course we're lucky to get any type of office scenes these days, but you would NEVER see that now. I feel like Bill Bell could take any topic and make it interesting while using it to further develop his characters.