September 13, 2012 10:50 am
Details re the shows which will fill in when Housewives have officially jumped the shark new scripted offerings from Bravo:
“Heathers”: Present day update of the cult classic 1980′s film that picks up 20 years later with Veronica (played by Winona Ryder in the film) moving back to Sherwood with her teenage daughter, who enters high school to deal with the next generation of mean girls, the “Ashley’s,” daughters of the surviving “Heathers.”
“The Apartment” (working title): After the death of their mother, two 20-something siblings unexpectedly inherit the love nest where their mother had an 18 year affair. After the initial shock that their mother was not who they thought she was, they begin to rent out the beautiful Upper West Side apartment to people who want a private space to have their own extra-marital affairs.
“The Darlings” (working title): Based on the acclaimed novel by Cristina Alger, the show is set on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, where a high-society family is pulled into a financial scandal after a business partner’s Ponzi scheme unravels, which drives him to suicide and exposes all of the family’s and company’s secrets.
“All American Girl”: Drama spans three time periods and centers around three women who all work at the female lifestyle magazine All American Girl. Show tracks the changing points of view of women in the workplace, feminism and asks the question “can women have it all?”
“Rita”: An adaptation of the Danish format of the same name, this family drama follows an acerbic, outspoken private school teacher who struggles to raise her own three teenage children while dealing with the inane bureaucracy and overprotective parents at her school.
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In keeping with the “jump the shark” ‘tude…
From “RealityBytes” by VRBryant:
If “The Real Housewives” were really housewives, [they] would have ruined a lot more marriages by now.
These vapid whores (Bravo’s executives) just keep cranking out the various iterations of this show, over and over, waiting — I can only presume — for someone to either set someone else on fire or drown them in the bathtub.
The show’s engine seems to run almost exclusively on conflict (albeit staged conflict); should just be a matter of time before an actual homicide occurs.
If they were smart, they’d — no, no. I’m not going to bother finishing that thought.
NOTE: Let’s finish VRBryant’s thought! ”If they were smart, they’d: give all the Housewives weapons; put them in an isolated location, surrounded by 50,000 volt fencing; and let them fight to the death.
Whichever Housewife is left…
- gets her own spinoff show,
- a pre-mixed cocktail drink with her photo on the label;
- six books ready for publication (
her ghostwriter was working feverishlyshe was writing while fending off the other Housewives); - three severely auto-tuned-to-death pop singles;
- several jobs in the media (radio, TV, newsletters)… all which involve giving advice
NOTE: A summer cold/flu is nasty. ”Thank You Jesus; sign of the cross; kisses to the sky” that a voice is not required to write!!
Feel better SH
Ms.SH, hope you’re feeling better soon.
Excellent ms SH! only you….
These new Bravo shows sound utterly BORING. I prefer contrived reality shows, ain’t nothin’ like the almost real thing….
Also, SH, maybe you might want to try silver, I buy from american-nutrition.com, high quality stuff.
The housewives have jumped the shark but these shows they are showing are totally boring and vapid.
Feel better soon SH. Summer colds are nasty.
Aww, I knew you were a little quiet, SH! I hope you feel better!
As far as these new shows, anything is better than the Housewives’ shows!! I really see the HWs’ shows ending very soon. When you anger fans, it’s a bad thing!
Get well soon xoxo
I’m confused. All these tired shows seem catered to the female market. I thought BRAVO was all about waving the rainbow flag.
Did ya notice The RHONJ’s Big Gay Greggy, The FameWhorgas, and Reichen Lemkuhl (sp?) are being featured in promotional NJ Sixflags amusement park promos for Sept. 14th which is apparently http://www.gaysixflags.com. There’s a gay.net article that is linked everywhere. BGG is a swangin’ on a carnival ride. His head is liking tiny compared to his muskels too BTW. Reichen won The Amazing race and was on the recently cancelled A-List NY on the Logo network for 2 seasons. RL trashes reality TV quite thoroughly BTW and then states he is off to Law school. Good for him.
Those shows sound awful (especially the Heather’s remake – leave good stuff alone!!). Hope you feel better Ms. SH!! Summer colds are the worst.
I agree, leave “Heathers” alone. And I thought the Apartment sounded very similar to Bridges of Madison County. And why do they have to rent the apt to only people having affairs? Sounds ridiculous.
OK…I gotta say it although you already know – “Drink plenty of fluids and get lots of rest!” We hope you feel a whole lot better real soon!
maybe this sounds corny but i would love to see a housewives show set in say, st louis or maybe seattle. places the regular people out there really don’t know about, vet the wives and stop the producer induced bullcrap. the scripted shows sound moronic and i doubt i would watch them
These shows sound not too bad. They would probably be better for my health than watching the HW’s because all they do is send my blood pressure through the roof. I’m tired of all the nastiness associated with the HW’s and the sludge coming from Andy and Bravo regarding the housewives. I’ll bet Andy pulled the wings off butterflies when he was a child.
Hahaha! I can actually see Andy doing that…
Hope you feel better Ms SH!
So now Bravo has resorted to cult mind manipulation labeling us as “affluent and savvy” to schmooz us on board. Too much estrogen in those storylines, drifting into Oprah-territory.
Above re Andrew Wang quote posted earlier
I WISH I was affluent and savvy! LOL
“Ha, ha!”
Feel better soon Ms. SH. The apartment I’ve got the best cast. The Manzo suckers minus the titties.
After the last season of RHNY, that was when it started to jump the shark for me, all the yelling, arguing I want to watch rich people do rich peoples things, I can get arguing anytime
Feel better SH! !!!!. Comfy pjs, a cup of hot tea and plenty of rest! Also if you might give zinc and vitamin C a try.
Totally agree, the newer housewives & hw shows are nowhere near as interesting. Couldn’t get into D.C. doubt that I’ll be watching the Miami one. Shame to admit but the drama & bitterness of some of the people on the older ones like N.J. & O.C. just make it so much more interesting to me. If you remember the drama between Tamara & Gretchen during the last year of Tamara’s marriage to Simon , once she got beyond that it ‘s now Alexis. & Chuckester & Tre. They say don’t stare at a train wreck but it’s hard to ignore when the players get sooooo wrapped up in it.
the last 2 showes mentioned sound promising have to wait & see
Feel better MsSH. I’m not liking any of those scripted show ideas..heck I have a problem getting into the newer faux reality shows or newer cast members of my favorite shows.
Feel better soon! Adding the 50,000 volt fence shows your excellent attention to detail.
BSL: LOL!! Oh, there would have been more, but coughing got the best of me and wiped out that part of my brain… the part that remembers what the next sentence was gonna be! Have to say that your last post on BSL was hysterical… am still laughin’ just thinkin’ about it! So, thank you for the repeated laughs! TFC!!! SH
My pleasure. I owe you 50K volts of laughter. Don’t throw out your back coughing or laughing, or doing both at the same time. Seriously, though, do hope you feel better very soon.
Hope you’re feeling better soon Ms. SH! Thanks for giving us our daily dose of HW even though you are not feeling well. We appreciate everything you do!
TV: AWWWW… thank you! That truly means a lot. It’s a good thing that a voice is not required, as mine is gone! Not fun… TFC!! SH
This will be interesting. Bravo heavily relies on “reality” shows so it would be interesting to see scripted shows on Bravo. Will it be a hit or is this the beginning of the end?
Wes: Bravo has been bracing themselves for the downswing of the HWs popularity… everything ends at one time or another! TFC!! SH
I hope you feel better soon, MsSH. Get you some Nyquil, girl! Beckyyyyy
Feel Better Soon! The show you propose sounds a lot like The Hunger Games. I can see them all standing on their little pedestals waiting for the clock to run down. The supplies that are available that they must fight for are BLK, Brownstone Sauce, Fabalinnis, Red Velvet Hooch, MeGo Vodka, Gretchen Beaute cosmetics and handbags, Alexis Couture, She by Sheree, NeNe shoes, Kim’s wigs, Bedroom Kandy, Coto Insurance (they’ll need it), Wines by Wives, Ramona’s Pinot and jewelry, Yummies Tummies, Carole’s Book,….wonder if they would kill for this stuff! Oh ya..and a few extra legs!
We need a wall chart to keep track a all that stuff! Maybe a flow chart would be better? Then we could keep track of some of the $$$$ and where it is all going!
Star light, star bright,
May all the HWs duke it out
In a steel-cage cockfight!
The only people that would find these plot lines interesting have to be at least 50yrs+. This is some TV land shiz………