Chris B

With BH, I recall reports during filming that the producers were disappointed with Yolanda. I know she was on a Dutch housewives show, but it was a lot more positive from what she said, so she didn't expect all the petty bickering. I think the reason we have Marisa and Faye (an official castmember now, according to Bravo's website) introduced so late is to salvage things. With Adrienne's lawsuit we'll probably see less of her so they're down two housewives kinda. I can't wait to see where the show goes. So far I'm enjoying Marisa, but Faye is trash. With New York, I think they asked for this. The show was doing very well in the ratings, regardless of complaints about season 4. The problem was Jill, yet they made such a huge issue of revamping the show and it lost too much. I honestly didn't even find Cindy to be that bad. I liked that she offered a different, Downtown, perspective. Another mistake was trying to recreate Beverly Hills by hiring these super rich housewives and firing Alex because she didn't fit that mold. What I would do for New York: - Offer everybody contracts to return. - Do everything they can to convince Alex to return. She meshes well with the others and with Simon is good tv. - At most bring in only ONE new person and thats only if somebody turns down the offer to return. Basically, I don't think they can survive another revamp. They have to make it work and act like they're happy with what they have. Bringing back Alex might improve the dynamic and will at least give LuAnn a story. If they try and add more new women it might just irritate viewers since this franchise has always had trouble launching new wives.

Wig's exit did spike the ratings this season, which was good. I/m glad to see they went up. I hope they can turn it out and maintain that. I'm still very curious about the second half of the seaosn.

Wendy really gave it to her and I loved that LOL!

I heard on WWHL, Porsha was trying to defend herself against the "265 days a year" comment and said something about how she could've easily doubled it and said "565 days a year." Clearly that isn't double. She's just an idiot and she's not very clever. I don't understand her. She's too old to be as useless as she is. Even if the only thing Kenya accomplished was Miss USA, it's more than she's accomplished. Kenya is self-made and I appreciate that more than someone who simply married a rich man, did some Trillville videos with Flavor of Love contestants and lives off her grandfathers legacy.

I hope Karlie Redd returns. I loved her and she was by far the prettiest. I hated how they tried to clown her with her age. K. Michelle looks like she's in her 40s so it was ironic coming from her.

Porsha is a disaster. Kenya is right, she IS making Porsha relevant and she was more than kind to Porsha. Porsha LIED to those girls about the charity event. Kenya didn't do anything inappropriate inside the venue, she went OUTSIDE when she knew she was upset. SHe was nice to Porsha this entire episode and when Nene was complimenting her, Porsha jumped in to insult her. Still, Kenya tried to be nice and say they needed to get to know each other better and kept trying to move on. Porsha totally started that fight and got that all hyped up. She's useless and a total [!@#$%^&*]-stirrer who is trying to become relevant. People can hate on Kenya, but she's accomplished a lot more than Miss USA. I don't think she's jealous at all.

Andy Cohen said tonights episode of RHOA is one of his favorite in all five seasons. I hope he's right! Lord knows this season needs it.

I think 15 episodes is good for a MIA relaunch. As for the reunion, it was filmed inNew York two weeks ago. Elsa and Alexia will appear.

Marisa started filming much later and first appears next week. She's in the previews on Bravotv.com. And with Jennifer on RHONY, I don't remember her even getting the Friend of billing. They only really showed her scenes as a party planner. One thing I'm noticing is that pretty much everything featured in the supertrailer for ATL and BH has already happened or is happening within a couple weeks. That tells me we have no idea whats in store for the rest of the season. I'm curious to see where things are going to go since we know these seasons will probably have 20 episodes. ATL in particular since we now see Nene and Kenya are good friends. I'm curious how things get to that point and if this "Crazy Kenya" will remain the entire season. What happens to make Nene like her?

Jennifer Gilbert from RHONY was filmed for several months and I recall in the build up to season 3 she was mentioned quite a bit in the press. It was a shock to her when she saw how greatly reduced her role was. I seem to recall a bio being on the Bravo website, but it being removed. I'd love to see some of that stuff as bonus footage, even for the lost footage episode it would be great. Lisa's another good example of a HW who faded away. I found that a shame since she was a popular and important part to those first two seasons. I'd love to see her return.

I wish they had kept Reiko. She had interesting relationships although she wasn't the center of drama. I think when needed she stepped up, but she was pleasant and thats fine. I was never bored by her. Now Christina's exit is heartbreaking. She was a shocking favorite of mine in season one and is irreplaceable. She also has the best tagline in the history of this franchise.

Well I wish Adrienne well because she's clearly done with the show. I highly doubt Bravo will want to deal with her for another season. Speaking of housewives, where is Yolanda? I noticed she didn't appear this week and I don't think she was in the preview for next week.

I love our little glimpses of Lisa's son Max. I think he is so cute. He seems very laid back and British. I want to hear more of him speak so I can determine what kind of accent he has. He reminds me of one of those Hollyoaks kids. Still kinda bummed out that RHOBH is going the way it is. We all know this will probably be a huge, huge storyline and it isn't watchable without full disclosure. Brandi said in her blog that it's going to be very expensive, so I'm guessing Adrienne went ahead with the lawsuit. Kim is a total stealth bitch and she knew what she was doing when she told Paul and Adrienne at the party. This was a take down for Kyle AND Brandi and it worked. Kim has shown herself to hold grudges so this doesn't surprise me.

I'm kinda done with Beverly Hills. Because of Adrienne's money we won't officially know what Brandi did and I think it's unfair and makes for bad storytelling. We're going to watch an entire season of Adrienne suing Brandi and attacking her and calling her a liar, but we'll never know what Brandi said? What is the point in watching? We can't make a decision for ourselves and Adrienne can still call Brandi a drug addict, bad mother, etc. because she has more money. I'm not down with that. Adrienne needs to be fired after this season is over. Putting a lawsuit into the middle of this season will kill it.

Greg has a live-in girlfriend. If anything is for show it's this reconciliation with Nene. It's not surprising to hear about Kenya and Walter, but I don't dislike her because of it. She's still beautiful, has a fabulous head of hair and is the only one serving it up this season.

I agree Jack that Kenya is the one who is bringing it this season. These other girls need to get it together. Also, if you look at the fight clip for next week, looks like PORSHA starts it not Kenya. Nene was complimenting Kenya based on how cool she is compared to what others have said and Porsha jumped into the conversation trying to justify her dislike for Kenya. Both Porsha and Cynthia better be careful because Kenya isn't really entertaining them and they're coming off as haters. Cynthia already is, but Porsha will in a few weeks.

Shaunie is a fool. She should be happy the LA version has some stability because the main Basketball Wives is a PR disaster. It's going to take a lot to make that show work. I wonder if anybody will care when it finally does return.

Marlo was at that party. I wonder if she'll feature in the episode that shows it. I'm sure after the vacation episode we'll get another mini-trailer for the rest of the season because they'll have mostly aired everything featured in the supertrailer by then.

Here's the link: http://www.deadline.com/2012/11/bravo-greenlights-2-atlanta-reality-series/ Mona's show is called Taking Atlanta and looks like it's basically a younger version of RHOA. It sounds like their attempt to recreate the success of Love and Hip Hop: Atlanta. If both pilots are picked up (there's also a medical show set in ATL) then that makes four Atlanta based shows on the network. Not a bad idea considering how successful RHOA is, this can help them expand their black audience.

I LOVED the Atlanta version, but I never watched the NYC version. I agree that they'll have to seriously bring it for the new season. I also wonder how Mona Scott-Young's new show will be on Bravo. I found it interesting to see they had her producing a show for them. I think it was probably based on the success they had with LHHATL.

I agree Jack! And Nene isn't stupid, she won't be leaving Housewives. There is no telling of The New Normal will get canceled and we have no proof she can get acting jobs outside of Ryan Murphy liking her, so her ass will be here.

I know I may be the only one, but I'd prefer Emma Samms as Fallon. She was good once the writers got it right in season 9. I loved what David Paulsen did for her.

Kim's show had good ratings for every episode and huge spikes for things like the wedding and wigless reveal. That's a success no matter how much people try and spin it as a failure or fluke. Kim and Nene have always been the clear stars of RHOA so it shouldn't surprise anyone that one of them has a successful spin-off. Let's see how Kandi's spin-off does and then talk.

I too enjoy seeing the former OC housewives pop up. I wish we could get Jeana and Lauri back full-time. When Lauri was on WWHL, a caller asked Andy what it would take to get Lauri back and he said he's tried everything. She said that she almost returned for season six full time, but the deal fell through. She said she's worried with how over the top the drama has become and doesn't know if she'd fit in. Considering she's going on trips with the girls, I wonder if she's testing the waters and might end up a full HW or a strong recurring presence. I hope so. Lauri was golden TV.

A perfect example of a difficult housewife is Jill Zarin. That is the type of housewife that production would hate and that Bravo wouldn't want to deal with. I don't believe for a second they cared about fan reaction because Jill was the star of RHONY and brought ratings. She was fired because production and Bravo got tired of her antics. Kim isn't bothering Bravo and she's still giving production juicy scenes, hence her strong screentime in these early episodes. Hell, had she not decided to quit, not going on this trip would've provided her even more story as the season went on. You would have Kash's birth and I'm sure they would've done an attempt to reconcile her with Kandi or get her to interact with Nene.