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Bravo Promotes Ellen Stone To EVP Marketing

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday June 12, 2013 @ 1:36pm PDTTags: Bravo, Ellen Stone

Ellen Stone had been SVP Marketing at Bravo, where she oversees and directs marketing initiatives for consumer advertising, ad sales, digital and social media and the on-air and off-air creative to ensure consistency of the network’s brand across all platforms. As her role has expanded, Stone added licensing and merchandising, developing several brand extensions for Top Chef including a frozen food line, a cruise and a pop-up restaurant. She also oversees tune-in and brand campaigns like the successful “Summer By Bravo” initiative. The former Lifetime marketing director joined Bravo in 2006. As EVP Marketing, she reports to Bravo and Style Media president Frances Berwick. “[Stone] has helped propel Bravo to a Top 10 network with exciting ways to engage our audience and keep the brand fresh, distinctive and relevant”, Berwick said in announcing the promotion.

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Bravo’s Eli Lehrer Joins Lifetime As VP Head of Non-Fiction Development

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday May 15, 2013 @ 7:00am PDTTags: Bravo, Eli Lehrer, Lifetime
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Eli Lehrer has been named to the newly created position of SVP and Head of Non-Fiction Development for Lifetime networks, effective July 8. Based in Los Angeles, Lehrer will oversee all non-scripted development for Lifetime, reporting to Rob … Read More »

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UPDATE: Bravo Confirms ‘Real Housewives Of NY’ Season 6 Back On

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Monday May 13, 2013 @ 5:10pm PDTTags: Bravo, The Real Housewives of New York City

UPDATE, 5:09 PM: Most of them are back for sure. “The Real Housewives of New York City will return on Bravo for season six,” a Bravo spokesperson confirmed today. “At this point, the returning cast members include Ramona Singer, Sonja Morgan, Carole Radziwill and Heather Thomson.” Note that LuAnn de Lesseps and Aviva Drescher are not on that list. A source says that doesn’t rule it out that they are returning with the others, as I reported on May 11, but right now Singer, Morgan, Radziwill and Thomson are the only Housewives Bravo is confirming publicly. Read More »

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Bravo Gears Up For ‘Queen Of Versailles’ April 29th Premiere: NBC Press Day

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday April 22, 2013 @ 12:00pm PDTTags: Bravo, NBC, Summer Press Day, The Queen Of Versailles

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Billionaire wife Jackie Siegel was on hand this morning for Bravo’s panel promoting the April 29th premiere of the surprise box-office hit doc The Queen Of Versailles, the DGA Award-nominated feature from photographer and filmmaker Lauren Greenfield that made its original mark at the 2012 Sundance Fest. (The film earned Greenfield that festival’s best director prize.) Greenfield said the film wound up at Bravo by design and that selling to Magnolia Pictures for theatrical and Bravo for TV was “our dream scenario.” It traces the story of Jackie and David Siegel, who are building their outrageously ostentatious dream home in Florida when the economy crashes in 2008. The home, modeled after France’s famed Palace of Versailles, was to be 90,000 square feet and include 10 kitchens, a bowling alley, a 6,000-square-foot master suite, two tennis courts and a roller rink. It’s designed to be the largest home in America, dwarfing even the famed Spelling estate. The film left the impression that construction might be permanently derailed. But Jackie Siegel assured this morning in Pasadena that it’s back on track. Construction resumed four months ago, and the plan is now to have the first phase completed in two years in time for her husband’s 80th birthday. Read More »

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Bravo’s ‘Newlyweds’ Cast Talks On-Screen Diversity: NBC Press Day

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday April 22, 2013 @ 11:43am PDTTags: Bravo, NBC, Newlyweds: The First Year, Summer Press Day

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Diversity was the hot topic on the panel for Bravo’s reality series Newlyweds: The First Year at today’s NBC Summer Press Day. Joining Bravo vice president of East Coast Development Lara Spotts were two of the four couples the show tracks over a year: Alaska and Kimberly V. Gedeon, who are African-American, and Blair Late and Jeff Pedersen, a gay couple. Spotts is openly gay and married to a same-sex partner. The onscreen couples were asked to offer their perspective on minority couples featured on scripted series TV, including the gay couple on Modern Family, Cam and Mitch. Late joked that, of the Modern Family characters, partner Pedersen most resembles Phil Dunphy, the male half of a straight couple on Modern Family. He added that he and his partner “are no poster children” for gay marriage. Read More »

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Producer Touts ‘Princesses’ As “Modern Coming-Of-Age Story”: NBC Press Day

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday April 22, 2013 @ 11:30am PDTTags: Bravo, NBC, Princesses: Long Island, Summer Press Day

Ray Richmond contributes to Deadline’s TV coverage.

NBC kicked off its Summer Press Day this morning in Pasadena with a panel hyping the forthcoming 10-episode Bravo reality show Princesses: Long Island. It centers on the lives of six college-educated … Read More »

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Kathy Griffin’s Bravo Talk Show Cancelled

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Saturday April 6, 2013 @ 1:30pm PDTTags: Bravo, Kathy Griffin
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After two seasons on air, Kathy Griffin‘s late night talk show Kathy is not being renewed, Deadline has confirmed. The comedienne dropped the news during a live stand up show Friday night in Cincinnati, Ohio … Read More »

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Bravo Unveils Slate Of 17 New And 18 Returning Series, Announces Scripted & Unscripted Projects In Development

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday April 2, 2013 @ 9:31am PDTTags: Bravo, Rita
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Bravo Media today unveiled what it says is its largest slate of original programming ever with 17 newly greenlighted and 18 returning unscripted series. That is a 15% increase over last year. Bravo also announced three new scripted and three unscripted projects in development. Bravo’s first scripted pilot, Rita, is now in production as the network is eying a launch of its first scripted series in the fourth quarter. (Bravo’s second scripted pilot, The Joneses, did not go to production.) Bravo logged its seventh consecutive year of ratings growth in 2012 and is currently running up vs. last year in total viewers and the 18-49 and 25-54 demographics. “Bravo’s ongoing investment in high-quality original content across every platform continues to drive our growth year-over-year,” said Frances Berwick, President of Bravo and Style Media. Bravo, which recently moved under the oversight of NBCU cable maven Bonnie Hammer, also is expanding its multi-screen initiatives and increasing the number of TV360 deals. The network’s slate introduced today indicates that creatively, Bravo is staying the course, at least for now. Here are the details on new and returning series and projects in development:

NEW SERIES GREENLIGHTS:

“Below Deck” – Summer 2013

Produced by 51 Minds with Mark Cronin and Courtland Cox as Executive Producers.

The upstairs and downstairs worlds collide when this young and single crew, known as “yachties,” live, love and work together onboard a privately owned extravagant yacht.  Working and tending to the ever-changing needs of their demanding charter guests is not always smooth sailing. Read More »

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Rhys Darby To Co-Star In ABC Pilot ‘Keep Calm And Karey On’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday March 25, 2013 @ 5:31pm PDTTags: ABC, Bravo, Keep Calm And Karey On, Rhys Darby, Rhys Wakefield, Rita
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Flight Of The Conchords‘ Rhys Darby will co-star opposite Kelly Preston in ABC‘s comedy pilot Keep Calm And Karey On, from writer Andrea Abbate, 21 Laps/Adelstein and 20th … Read More »

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Bravo’s ‘The Joneses’ Drama Pilot Pushed

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday March 7, 2013 @ 9:31am PSTTags: Bravo, The Joneses
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Bravo has decided to postpone production on one of its two scripted pilots, The Joneses. The network and producing studio ABC Studios have had difficulties casting the project, based on the 2009 indie film, which is competing with some 100 broadcast pilots and a few cable ones for … Read More »

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Reason #8 Why Lauren Zalaznick Lost Bravo

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Sunday February 10, 2013 @ 1:37am PSTTags: Bravo, Lauren Zalaznick, NBCUniversal

Saturday Night Live last night spoofed the Bravo crap which Lauren Zalaznick programs. Last Monday she was replaced after a restructuring. (Now Bonnie Hammer adds Bravo to her NBCU cable portfolio.) So SNL lets it rip:

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Bravo’s ‘Top Chef’ Renewed For Season 11

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday February 6, 2013 @ 9:15am PSTTags: Bravo, Top Chef
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Bravo has renewed its flagship series, the Emmy-winning Top Chef, for an 11th season. Casting begins next week. Top Chef is produced by Magical Elves, with  Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz executive producing.

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Anna Gunn To Star In Bravo Drama Pilot ‘Rita’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday February 1, 2013 @ 3:30pm PSTTags: Bravo
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Breaking Bad‘s Anna Gunn has been tapped for the lead in Bravo‘s hourlong pilot Rita. Written by Krista Vernoff and directed by Miguel Arteta, Rita is an adaptation of a Danish series. It … Read More »

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Miguel Arteta To Direct Bravo Pilot ‘Rita’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday January 22, 2013 @ 9:21am PSTTags: Bravo, Miguel Arteta, Rita
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EXCLUSIVE: Miguel Arteta is set to direct Bravo‘s hourlong pilot Rita, one of the cable network’s first two scripted pilots greenlighted last month. Written by Krista Vernoff, Rita is is an adaptation of a … Read More »

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Bravo Media Greenlights ‘Extreme Guide To Parenting’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday January 16, 2013 @ 10:30am PSTTags: Bravo

Several TV shows have addressed the “extreme” theme — extreme cheapskates, extreme couponing, extreme makeovers — and now it’s extreme parenting. Bravo Media has given the go-ahead to the new series Extreme Guide To Parenting (working … Read More »

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Bravo’s ‘Real Housewives Of Atlanta’ & ‘Shahs Of Sunset’ Hit Highs

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday January 8, 2013 @ 12:11pm PSTTags: Bravo, Shahs Of Sunset, TV Ratings

Sunday was a very good night for The Real Housewives Of Atlanta and Shahs Of Sunset. Bravo had its best primetime ever last night and strongest Sunday ever among adults 18-49. That was in great part to its 8 PM and 9 PM offerings: The Southern-based Housewives had its highest-rated episode of the season with 3.7 million viewers. That eclipsed the record 3.2 million that watched the show’s Season 5 premiere on November 4. Also on Sunday, Shahs Of Sunset drew a series high for the LA-based show. The Ryan Seacrest-produced reality series pulled in 2.5 million viewers and was up 62% in the 18-49 demo compared to Season 1’s sixth episode. Read More »

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Bravo Crafting Media Boss Drama ‘Moguls’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday December 11, 2012 @ 12:13pm PSTTags: Bravo, Michael Jackson, Moguls

A tale of Big Media is coming to cable. Continuing its recent moves toward original scripted series, Bravo is developing the drama Moguls. The series will follow the professional and personal challenges of a media … Read More »

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Bravo Orders First Scripted Pilots: Dramas ‘The Joneses’ And ‘Rita’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday December 4, 2012 @ 3:41pm PSTTags: Big Deals TV, Bravo, Rita, The Joneses
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EXCLUSIVE: Bravo is taking a step toward launching its first original scripted series with the pickup of its first scripted pilots, both from established female writer-producers and based on existing properties. The cable network has given the green light to Liz Tigelaar’s The Joneses and Krista Vernoff’s Rita. The Joneses, from ABC Studios, is based on the 2009 indie film of the same name that starred Demi Moore and David Duchovny. Rita, from Fox TV Studios, is an adaptation of a Danish format. Bravo plans to debut its first original scripted series in the fourth quarter of 2013.

Bravo brass announced their intent to enter original scripted programming last year. The network’s efforts in the arena shifted into high gear in March when the network hired Andrew Wang as VP Scripted Development & Production. The network put a slew of projects in development, with The Joneses and Rita emerging with the first pilot orders. “We went out looking for shows that spoke to the Bravo brand of great aspirational female-driven upscale worlds” and came from strong creative auspices, Wang said.  Read More »

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Bravo’s ‘Shahs Of Sunset’ Season 2 Premiere Hits Series High

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Monday December 3, 2012 @ 12:15pm PSTTags: Bravo, Shahs Of Sunset, TV Ratings

The return of Shahs Of Sunset last night delivered the Bravo reality show its highest rating to date. The Season 2 premiere Sunday pulled in 2.3 million total viewers and 1.4 million viewers in the adults 18-49 demographic. … Read More »

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