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Bravo, which is group to person complete 500 hours of original programming connected aerial this year, is bringing backmost nan mostly of its reality slate arsenic portion of a bumper renewal package.
This includes a 2nd play for The Real Housewives of Rhode Island, which has becomes a awesome deed for nan NBCUniversal cablegram network. The bid became Bravo’s biggest bid aliases play premiere section ever connected Peacock and is connected way to go nan network’s 2nd biggest show crossed platforms down only The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
The series, which premiered past month, follows Alicia Carmody, Rosie DiMare, Ashley Iaconetti, Liz McGraw, Rulla Nehme Pontarelli, Kelsey Swanson and Jo-Ellen Tiberi as they navigate nan highs and lows of Rhode Island’s close-knit societal scene.
It is produced by Evolution Media, which produces The Real Housewives of Orange County and The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. It is exec produced by Andy Cohen, Lucilla D’Agostino, Joseph Ferraro, Jen McClure-Metz, Barry Poznick, Bianca Barnes-Williams and James Brangert.
Andy Cohen joked to Deadline recently, “Here’s nan point astir Rhodies, you don’t f*ck pinch them.”
Speaking astatine nan Deadline Reality TV Summit, he added, “I deliberation 1 of nan reasons Rhode Island is truthful incredible, is that nan women’s self-awareness astir being connected nan show is incredibly low. They are uniquely themselves and taking america on for nan ride. That’s truthful important. There person been a batch of times wherever a housewife will subordinate and each of a abrupt you’re like, ‘Oh, man, she’s benignant of studied this’. That’s what we effort to avoid.”
Cohen said that what he recovered absorbing was that Rhode Island was a small, section organization wherever everyone is “in each other’s business”. “It’s nan cleanable setting, creatively and from a communicative constituent of view,” he added. “It’s aspirational and beautiful, which is simply a large portion of these shows.”
Rachel Smith, EVP, Unscripted Content, Bravo and Peacock added that aft 20 years connected air, viewers see nan housewives friends.
“They’re successful their surviving rooms pinch them. They consciousness profoundly astir them. It’s almost irrational really overmuch they tin consciousness astir them. It’s this level of relatability that you’ve sewage to cognize these group complete years. There’s vulnerability, it’s aspirational,” she said astatine nan Reality TV Summit.
Elsewhere, Bravo has renewed The Valley: Persian Style and Wife Swap: The Real Housewives Edition for play two, Below Deck Down Under for play five, The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City for play seven, Summer House for play 11, Southern Charm for play 12, Married to Medicine for play 13 and Top Chef for play 24.
They subordinate Below Deck, The Real Housewives of Potomac, The Real Housewives of New York City, The Real Housewives of New Jersey and Watch What Happens Live pinch Andy Cohen, which person each been antecedently renewed.
Smith added that Bravo continues to grow. “What we’ve managed to do is create a beingness and a organization wherever group consciousness seen, and it’s portion of their identity. Our occupation is to conscionable support feeding that and support those franchises live and fresh,” she said.
