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The thing is, The View is bragging about their ratings being up...but they've plummeted from where they used to be. The Talk is a success story and it's ratings are comparatively stable. The View's current ratings bump is influenced by the election, for certain, but whether its viewers will get fatigued is yet to be seen. The Talk stays completely away from politics so its ratings are easier to predict.

Leave it to the Daily Mail - they've answered the question: Eileen is on an extended break, as confirmed by ITV, but it's widely speculated that she's retired: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3931494/It-s-sad-Iconic-soap-star-Eileen-Derbyshire-85-not-return-Coronation-Street-55-year-run-soap-confirms-extended-break.html

Jennifer Bassey, AMC's Marian, is engaged: http://people.com/tv/jennifer-bassey-george-bamford-engaged/

Just watched the Hot Topics segment with Meredith, Star, Joy and Debbie...it was GREAT! They need to just fire everyone except Joy and bring those three back.

I totally agree. She is truly unfiltered but also truly no calculated. Kelly is a sloppy, dirty fighter...but she does it without an agenda. She just lets it fly. Shannon tries to shame people but that will never work with Kelly.

Heather caught with her pants down, pulling all the diva behaviour she can to try and get Kelly fired. Heather is so full of crap. Her neighbourhood won't let her film at her house so what good is she? She says the restaurant walls were paper thin so Kelly's language could be heard by everyone as a reason for why she left...while screaming F*CK at the top of her own lungs? Nice try Heather. As an aside, Shannon is huge. She is incredibly bloated or has put on 30+ pounds.

Soooooooo glad it's back.

I've binged on all 10 episodes. The beauty of this show is that, since it's based on actual people and events, there aren't really spoilers. That said, I'll give everyone interested some time to watch the show before I comment on anything specific. All I'll say is it's a masterpiece and I found myself incredibly moved. It has also shifted some of my views about a few members of the Royal Family.

Convicted felons like Ms. Giudice often can't travel to places like Hong Kong because the visa requirements have them list whether they have ever been convicted of a crime. Whether Teresa would answer that honestly is a whole other matter (does it count if she says she went to camp?) but Bravo would never risk it. It isn't as if the New Jersey housewives would even appreciate a trip abroad. P.F. Chang's is what they'd consider an authentic Asian experience.

What's strange is Eileen/Emily is still listed on ITV's site with Emily's address listed as 'somewhere in Peru'...having Emily tell Norris to sell her things doesn't bode well.

So is Eileen Derbyshire's Emily gone for good? I remember when she left the word was it was a 6 month break - and now we're coming up to a year...is she not well?

@Nothin'ButAttitude thank you for posting the OC and BH trailers in foreign friendly format! OC The end of this season was sad. Firstly, where was Jeana? Tammy? Quinn? Laurie? The usual pack of OC wives who can be counted on to show up for the end of season party. Tamra tried to go in for Vicki, as did Heather and Shannon...and they all failed. Vicki truly disengaged and walked and there wasn't a damn thing they could do about it. Kelly kept herself calm and sober. Heather telling Vicki not to move was really awful - Heather must be in a state of real delusion to think she was going to be vindicated by this episode. It was the nadir for Heather. Tamra is just consistently hypocritical and nasty, season after season, time after time, so it's not like she can get lower - she already rolls in the mud, but like a pig, she enjoys it. Shannon has put on a lot of bloat this season and looks even worse at the reunion. Dr. Moon is failing her. It's just bizarre that Shannon tries to deny that David hit her when she reported him to the police and he plead guilty. Lord knows why Shannon, with the skeletons in her closet, would think reality television would be a good place to gloss over the truth. All in all, once those guitar strings get strumming I am hooked and always satisfied I saw the season through. OC can be toxic, it can be mean, but for whatever reason, perhaps because it's the original, it's never a pain to watch and never a chore. I really am interested to see how the reunion plays out - I'm glad Vicki and Kelly are going in hard. Next season is going to need some rebalancing. Heather and Shannon both need to go. BH Love the trailer. It's incoherent but it's glamorous and looks lush and LVP is sitting back and watching those hyenas devour each other. Cheshire I'm hoping the season is winding down, it's dragged. They need to fire Stacey, Misse and Seema - they're all duds. I enjoy watching Dawn and Ampika because I like them both and think they're quite alike. I have always enjoyed Lauren and agree that Seema and Stacey have looked down on her unnecessarily - what the hell has Lauren done to any of them to deserve such scorn?

OC Heather, Shannon and Tamra tried, and failed, yet again, to take the OG of the OC down. In doing so, they showed their ugliest faces, particularly Heather. They tried to bait Kelly and did their damnedest to provoke her - and then she slaughtered them because she dropped some truth bombs and just let the chips fall where they may. Heather really came off the worst standing their telling Kelly to shut up and that she was trash, while Heather was doing exactly the same crap. Shannon needs to just face the fact that her husband plead guilty to assault back in 2003 and however she wants to sweep it under the carpet, if the dozens of reports are true, it happened and she shouldn't have gone on the RHOC because it was inevitable that it was going to come out.

Found it on Twitter - it looks GREAT.

So...thoughts on the new trailer? Returns Nov I can't watch that trailer - geographic block I can't wait for the show's return.

I hope Sonja returns. She injects a lot of comedy into the show that is so necessary.

God bless Eric Braeden...

If you search for Auckland in this thread you'll see that a link is often provided by a kind poster to a streaming link.

This week's Auckland was so good. I don't fault Louise and Ann for slating Angela's book launch - it SUCKED. Julia is such a dumb bitch, throwing around racist language and gossiping about everyone and spreading what they say about each other behind their backs - Julia clearly wasn't raised properly, you talk sh*t about people behind their backs!

Exactly. That's how I seen things tonight. HRC did enough to ensure him to think he has a chance when he really doesn't. Come time for debate #3 and voting, she needs to knock is ass out officially with some salacious dirt, which I know she possesses. We don't need him dropping out. Drag his ass to the finish line and finish him off. Precisely. Come the last debate she must decimate him and destroy him and leave everyone associated with his campaign ashamed of themselves.

It's hard to know what Ivanka feels about all of this. The former Mrs. Trump, Ivana, has said that she single handedly raised the children until they were 21, at which time they went to work for Donald and developed a relationship with him. I believe that. Frankly, the children turned out too well for them to have been raised by Donald. Ivana is a great survivor: she got the hell out of Communist Czechoslovakia, worked tirelessly to build a modelling career in Canada, had a 13 year marriage with Donald that involved spearheading successful ventures for him as a corporate vice president (popular with employees and respected by third parties, Ivana's success seemed to be a part of their marriage collapsing as his ego couldn't take it) and captured the zeitgeist when she divorced him. Throw in old school central European values and an immigrant's iron discipline and it's no surprise that Ivana raised three children who got good grades, graduated Ivy League and stayed totally clean from substance abuse. Rosie O'Donnell's recent accidental meeting with Ivanka at Nobu in Manhattan is a case in point. Rosie describes Ivanka as "absurdly kind" and that she "smiled graciously" and that her husband was "warm and gracious"...Ivanka married a man very different from her father, which is interesting to me. Jared Kushner is certainly an ambitious young man, an observant Jew (who she converted for) but an obviously graceful person, both calm and reserved. It's clear the children are fierce defenders of their father - but it only seems to have occurred as Donald improved his post divorce relationship with Ivana. Donald Jr. didn't speak to Donald for a year after the divorce. It seems the children idolize and defend their father, the larger than life monolith...but the one they really love and protect is their mother and they may view an improvement in their relationship with their father as another way to protect their mother and honour her hard work through their success. I think Ivanka is deeply embarrassed...but he's still her father. Ivana raised those children admirably but the achilles heel of raising children admirably is you often instil a sense of loyalty into them. The Trump children's loyalty to their mother results in their loyalty to their father. They couldn't protect her from him when they were children - indeed, she protected them from him - but they can insulate her from him by showering him with the attention he so desperately craves. I genuinely believe the support Ivana has given Donald publicly in the last couple of years has been lip service and that she's happy to keep him on the periphery of her life and that protecting her children means offering him whatever attention she can bear to muster.

Unfortunately for Arianne Zucker, this is probably not the way she wanted to land on the front page of one of the UK's most widely circulated and venerated newspapers.

RHOV never should have ended - they just needed to refresh the cast. The problem is that Vancouver is a relatively small big city with a very quiet monied set - it is not a tasteless city. The housewives they were able to sign on were anomalies.

Auckland This episode was so different from the last ones because all of the ladies got together and rallied behind Angela...of all people. This was Angela's redemption episode as it emerges she's gone through hell in her life, is wildly insecure and her boyfriend is a bastard. And not one of the women didn't feel for her. It's almost like the editors set us up to despise her delusional ass, only for Julia to reveal herself to be a racist villain, leaving Angela available for redemption. Ann and her nephew are beyond cute. She is Auntie Mame. I also really enjoyed Gilda and Ann going to painting class. Louise continues to be my favourite. Cheshire This was a bit of a dull episode. I'm glad Tanya finally had the baby so she can stop being a whiner about it. Dawn and Leanne burying the hatchet was mature of them. Next week looks good as several marriages implode.

Nene has been hit with another tax lien. This time for $95,000.00: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3822215/Real-Housewives-Atlanta-star-NeNe-Leakes-hit-tax-lien-owes-1million-taxes-IRS-threatens-seize-assets.html She's now nearly at a cool $1,000,000.00 in the hole with tax debts. They'll start seizing assets soon. Nene...oh...how the mighty have fallen. She has clearly blown a fortune. What a fool.