Chris B

^ I agree. I think they are so stupid for not airing Melbourne in primetime simply so we'd have SOMETHING other than New Jersey on. Even if they just put it in NYC's tuesday slot. It feels so weird with just one series on! I really need them to release a trailer or cast photo for BH and ATL soon. I imagine it won't be until October though.

Ramona can't carry the entire show herself, just like Nene couldn't carry I Dream of Nene without Marlo. RHONY had a BIG, HUGE cast of personalities and replaced them with mellow women who don't seem to do anything. We lost fashion week, we lost the fabulous trips to the Hampton's and the parties, this past season we lost all of that PLUS no tropical vacations. This is also what killed Cindy. She was fine, but is that who you replace Bethenny with? Hell no. I do think had Carole joined in season 4 things would've gone differently. She could've replaced Bethenny as the single "sex & the city" girl with the witty talking heads. And yes I will never forgive Bravo for canceling DC. Ratings were good and there was so much they had to work with. I wonder what would've happened had they aired things in the original order, with the White House incident happening midseason? I personally feel that could've given them a big midseason boost and then the fallout with Michaele and Erika vs Cat could've driven the final few episodes. Plus they had to cut so much good stuff which no longer fit the narrative because it obviously happened after the White House incident. While we're on the subject of DC, I should mention that Cat has moved back to the US after two years in Spain. For those who've forgotten, she's appeared several times on WWHL and has a feud with LuAnn so they asked her to join RHONY for season 5, but she turned them down. She said she was also asked to do Ladies of London, but she turned them down because she lived in Spain at the time and was a new mother. Depending on where she lives she could be an interesting addition to OC or NYC.

Ramona IS a star and you're giving me diarrhea with your hateraid. I would say she's one of few housewives who has had an off season. She is so unfiltered that she always manages to pull something out and she NEVER feels scripted. That is something I appreciate about Ramona. She is her crazy self regardless. Even when she tried to be renewed, she is still a total mess. I love her. She is very lovable to me. I still wonder what condition she has because despite her smarts, she seems like she isn't all there.

But Kim is like one of the Top 3 best things to come out of ATL!!

Miami was an all latina telenovella, which is the same problem I feel you have in New Jersey. They cast all their Miami shows with the same type of people and the audience is too narrow for that type of show. Why would they watch RHOM on Bravo when they have endless options on Telemundo and Univision? Basketball Wives was set in Miami and had almost an entire black cast. Where were those women on RHOM? I want integration on all of these series, including ATL. It's just real life and by limiting the search pool you're more likely to end up with dud housewives.

I agree with what you're saying Cheap, but I think that isn't necessary. Bravo are just single minded fools. Look at how black viewers flock to their shows on Sunday with heavy black presence. When relaunching New Jersey, why scrape the bottom of the barrel trying to find more Italians in a diluted market, when they could've cast a black housewife or other races that aren't in that circle of Italian/Mob culture. They shouldn't be so afraid to mix it up and be diverse in their casting. For all it's faults and lack of success, I'd say Beverly Hills has probably been the most risk taking when it comes to casting. Last year you had 3 non-Americans with accents and one Puerto Rican housewife. That would NEVER happen on the other series.

I just watched the pilot and this show looks interesting. You can definitely see the Spelling touch in the casting and production feel of this show. I don't think I've ever seen anything other than the opening credits for this show, but since it's all on YouTube I may continue watching. I have so many other shows on my plate, but this looks fun and really isn't a ton of episodes to watch.

Did yall see the video of Momma Dee performing and he front tooth popped out?! WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON IN ATLANTA?!?!?!? I would post a link, but I saw it on Facebook lol. This franchise is so ratchet.

I'm not sure what to believe because it's still early, but demoting your only original housewife is foolish. LuAnn and Ramona are all that's left and need to remain Housewives. Ramona is always central each season and she brings ratings. If anybody needed to be demoted it was Sonja who is just bringing nothing to the table. Also, although I like them, why would you build a show around Heather, Kristen and Carole when the ratings have plummeted since they were all brought on? The goals for season 7 should be: 1. Find a black, rich socialite to join the cast 2. Bring back Jill as a full-time housewife, suck it up and bring Alex with her. Give Bethenny a deal for her own show ONLY if she agrees to recur on RHONY. 3. Get back on Fashion Week. Am I the only one who remembers weeks of them attending fashion shows and it really feeling like they were at the center of what was going on in New York? I miss that. No more Montana, give me Fashion Week.

LuAnn S4 vs Nene any season would be the most epic housewife match-up ever. They need to do a vacation series and get a group of these women together. I bet LuAnn and Nene would come to blows.

Re-watching this season I really HATE LuAnn. She is so evil. The situation later on when they all had dinner it was obvious LuAnn didn't tell the blondes what time it was. Alex got there first and humbled herself and was very nice to LuAnn despite their argument and LuAnn just ate her ass alive, told her she couldn't eat dinner because she was late and then after Alex apologized for being late she made her so uncomfortable that she left the table. Then when Ramona and Sonja arrived she didn't even let them sit at the table. If they were going to fire anybody for being toxic it obviously should've been Jill and LuAnn. Nobody else was being aggressive or crazy the entire season. In fact, Alex was mostly reserved for many episodes until people came for her. You can see the entire season people trying to make Ramona out to be this aggressive monster, but even she wasn't doing much besides sticking her foot in her mouth here and there. Jill and LuAnn were just vicious.

Okay I'm on the final Morocco episode of RHONY S4 and I still say this is a good season. Cindy is a bust, but overall this season is good and Cindy isn't so bad that she takes away from the scenes. If she were just a "Friend" she would be fine. Now this trip has mostly been about LuAnn ordering people around and the looming feud with Ramona and Jill. I had forgotten how the third episode LuAnn and Kelly went IN on Alex's ass. They dug so deep up her ass I thought her teeth were gonna pop out. Kelly's crazy ass somehow was able to convince Alex she is crazy and then I have NEVER EVER EVER seen LuAnn as nasty as she was against Alex. She was on another level. This is the #1 reason LuAnn didn't work in season 5. I can't go from her main story being Jill's bulldog/feuding with Alex to trying to create a silly feud with Ramona and missing her two strongest scene partners (Alex & Jill). They needed to keep Alex to keep that drama going. All this is making me miss Kelly. She was truly nuts. Where did they find her? Did they know she was crazy? I love her crazy ass.

I think Carole could be more interesting with a better mix of housewives. The chemistry is all wrong, which is also why LuAnn sucked so much in season 5. I thought Carole was the best thing about season 5 and also was interesting in the first part of season 6 when going at it with Aviva. Sonja is the tired one I think stopped being interesting in season 4. She needs to go, but I feel they view her as attached to Ramona's character, so they'll never let her go.

RHONY News: http://pagesix.com/2014/09/04/helena-christensen-turns-down-role-on-real-housewives/ Helena Christensen has turned them down, Aviva has been fired and Kristen, Heather, Carole and Sonja have been invited back. It didn't mention LuAnn or Ramona either way, but if this is all true then I feel it's kind of a mistake. After two tepid seasons that can't match seasons 1-4 in the slightest, they need a major shakeup. Adding one or two housewives won't cut it. I would've cut Aviva and Kristen, demoted Sonja and add LuAnn, Jill and Alex if possible. The only new housewife I would pursue is Jennifer Williams from Basketball Wives and I Dream of Nene. You'd have a dream cast right there.

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.