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Did Bravo Mishandle Last Night's 'Real Housewives' Premiere? - Posted September 6, 2011
[caption id="attachment_26804" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Photo: Bravo/NBC"][/caption] Reality has interfered with The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. While my cable is unfortunately on the fritz despite two appointments in three days from Time Warner, reporters on the TV beat watched the season premiere of the show to s... [PRNewser]

Sarah Jessica Parker Talks Motherhood, Her New Movie With Bravo - Posted September 6, 2011
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Jersey Shore Takes Number One Again in Weekly Ratings - Posted August 25, 2011
MTV's Jersey Shore continues its dominance with another week atop the prime time ratings. An estimated 881,000 viewers watched the August 18th episode from Italy with a 4.4 rating, according to the Nielsen Company. The New York Jets preseason game on WCBS/Channel 2 finished second for the week (744,000/3.7). ... [FishbowlNY]

Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Husband Dead of Apparent Suicide - Posted August 16, 2011
Russell Armstrong was found dead Monday evening at his home on Mulholland Drive. The cause of death was hanging, and is being treated as a suicide. The 47-year-old venture capitalist was the estranged husband of ... [FishbowlLA]

60 Minutes Take Weekly Top Spot on WCBS; America's Got Talent Number Two on WNBC - Posted July 28, 2011
As we meander through the summer, viewership is typically altered. But 60 Minutes had no problems grabbing ratings. The venerable newsmagazine was number one, according to the Nielsen Company. The broadcast had 751,000 WCBS/Channel 2 vi... [FishbowlLA]

NBCUniversal and Etsy Partner for Earth Week - Posted March 28, 2011
NBCUniversal's Green is Universal initiative has partnered with Etsy, the online selling community for handmade items, for "The Art of Reus... [PRNewser]

foursquare Has a Platinum Hit from Bravo On Its Hands - Posted March 9, 2011
Bravo will preview upcoming music-competition series Platinum Hit during a March 16 panel at South by Southwest... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Bravo Takes on a New York Staple - Posted February 2, 2011
On Wednesday, February 16th, Bravo will air The Approval Matrix, a version of New York magazine's great recurring feature. The 30-minute show will be hosted by Faith Salie, who will lead three panelists and celebrity guests through a disc... [FishbowlLA]

Donny Deutsch's New Show Premieres Tonight - Posted January 27, 2011
Tonight at 11 PM EST on Bravo, Love Calling, the dating advice show starring Donny Deutsch debuts. Deutsch will take questions from inquiring minds via Twitter, Facebook, videochat and phone calls. What makes Deutsch qualified to dole out advice to women about the ins and outs of love? Nothing! ... [FishbowlNY]

Check In on foursquare During Watch What Happens Live: Andy's New Year's Eve Party and Appear on Bravo - Posted December 29, 2010
foursquare users and Bravo fans looking to make their big break into television may have a... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Battle Over Which Real Housewife is Best with Bravo's Real-Time Twitter Initiative - Posted December 7, 2010
Bravo has just announced a new, Twitter-centric initiative to get TV fans interacting with one another and with the many well-loved Bravo brands. @BravoTV, a real-time social media inte... [AllTwitter]

@BravoTV Provides Twitter Environment for Bravo Fans - Posted December 7, 2010
Bravo rolled out a browser-based tool for fans of its series who use Twitter, @BravoTV, and the cable network worked in collaboration with Twitter executives on the project, paidContent... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Watch What Happens as Bravo Digital Media's New Project Manager - Posted September 24, 2010
Have you watched every "Top Chef" franchise religiously? Are you pumped to see Patti Stanger in action in NYC? Can't decide who your favorite real housewife is? Well, we have the job for you. Bravo Digital Media is looking for an experienced ... [TVNewser]

Hitwise: Late-Night Talk Shows Added to Rankings, Won by The Tonight Show with Jay Leno - Posted September 24, 2010
WebNewser received the weekly television-related Web-site reports from Hitwise for the first time in three weeks, but the results for the week ending Sept. 18 came with a surprise: Late-night ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Andy Cohen Answers to Bravo's Critics, Gets Real about 'Reality' TV - Posted April 28, 2010
Millions of people tune in to Bravo for hits like Top Chef, The Rachel Zoe Project, and Kell on Earth, but one glimpse of the network's viewer mail shows it's not all love in these parts. So, we couldn't let senior VP of original programming and development Andy Cohen leave our Media... [FishbowlNY]

Lucky Magazine Partners With Bravo On New Fashion Reality Show - Posted December 8, 2009
Reality competitions have long paired with magazines: "Project Runway" first allied itself with Elle and then Marie Claire, "America's Next Top Model" has ... [FishbowlNY]

Donatella Arpaia's Home Cooking Helps Launch Revamped iVillage Food Portal - Posted November 12, 2009
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Daily News' Zuckerman Vies For BusinessWeek|NYT Looks To Chicago|Three Reality Stars Get Their Own Shows|Forbes.com's New Chief|Stacked Up - Posted October 1, 2009
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Will Comcast Buy NBC Universal From GE? - Posted October 1, 2009
Rumors, theories and conjectures have been swirling since The Wrap reported yesterday that a deal between cable provider ... [FishbowlNY]

Bravo Appoints Animal Planet VP Holland In Charge Of Program Planning - Posted September 3, 2009
If there is a difference between wild animals and real housewives, Whitney Holland is in position to find out exactly what it is. The former VP of Program Planning for Animal Planet today was appoin... [FishbowlNY]

Julia Allison Shills For Sony - Posted August 19, 2009
New York media personality, blogger and entrepreneur ... [FishbowlNY]

Internet Week Announces 2010 Dates - Posted July 22, 2009
Get your 2010 calendars ready: the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences and the Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting today announced the dates for next year's Internet Week. The event will kick off on June 7, 2010, culminating with the 14th Annual Webby Awards on June 14. This year's... [FishbowlNY]

Are Magazines Like Top Chef The Future Of Journalism? - Posted June 2, 2009
FishbowlNY managing editor Rebecca Fox moderated a panel this afternoon about integrated partnerships and multiplatform marketing and publicity deals in the media world. If you're uncertain what kind of deals would fall under this umbrella, a good example is the partnership bet... [FishbowlNY]

Disney-ABC Adds Three Execs to Digital Media - Posted September 9, 2008
The good people at Disney sent over this press release, touting their poaching of Karin Timpone and Lauren DeVi... [FishbowlLA]

Vivi Zigler Promoted to President of NBC Universal Digital Entertainment - Posted June 30, 2008
Vivi Zigler, the woman who brought you (the marketing for) Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and Celebrity Poker, has been promoted yet again within NBC Universal, where she has worked for more tha... [FishbowlLA]

Watch the Box: Sloppy Seconds - Posted January 9, 2008
Dirt, starring Courteney Cox, gets a second season on FOX. The show was originally given a 13 episode order, but only 7 were produced before the writers' strike. Did FOX have 6 scripts just sitting around? Also back again is The Two Coreys starring Corey Haim and Corey Feldman... [FishbowlLA]

Watch the Box: What Women Want - Posted November 27, 2007
Suzanne Daniels piles on the reality for Lifetime. The Week the Women Went = Lysistrata in the suburbs. January viewers will also find Matched in Manhattan and Top This Party. We suggest: Before Doris Knows You're Dead--great funerals across the country. Corbin ... [FishbowlLA]

Watch the Box: Above and Below - Posted October 23, 2007
CBS canceled Viva Laughlin after two episodes. Just because it's on British TV doesn't mean it good. The BBC just bought Dragons' Den a reality series with aspiring entrepreneurs pitching their ideas to various millionaires. See above. Donald Trump is in talks with Revill... [FishbowlLA]

Watch the Box: Borat Rip-off, Rich MILFs, Singing Stars, Geeks in Cube Farms - Posted September 21, 2007
Fox has a script commitment deal with Darren Star and Anthony Horowitz for Raffik (working title) - a fish out of water story about an Albanian police officer who moves to the US, and with some humor really gets into the American lifestyle. Why? Because Borat was a really cool... [FishbowlLA]

Top Design Over: Matt Wins, Bravo Still Sucks - Posted April 12, 2007
Who told Bravo that weird lips and a British accent get viewers? Top Design dragged Trudie Styler into the judges' panel, and if we've heard it once, we've heard it a million times: she has hot tantric middle-aged sex with Sting, ... [FishbowlLA]

Top Design Sucks, Don't Watch Bravo Ever Again - Posted April 5, 2007
FBLA is completely disgusted with Bravo and is never watching their stupid poopy channel again. (And we're not alone.) Our pal, Andrea Keller, got booted from Top Design, and frankly, we blame the fine hand of the producers, hungry to interje... [FishbowlLA]

A Reader Responds to TWOP/Bravo Deal: Freedom of Snark in Trouble? - Posted March 15, 2007
Reader/writer Sherlynn Hicks shares her thoughts on TWOP's acquisition by Bravo: TelevisionWithoutPity.com has been bought by Bravo. I quietly lament. Glark... [FishbowlLA]

In The Trades: So Old It's New! - Posted March 14, 2007
Viacom is suing YouTube for unauthorized use of some 160,000 video clips from MTV, Comedy Central and VH1. Viacom thinks that $1 billion is fair recompense for the 1.5 billion times the clips were viewed. Viacom's argument includ... [FishbowlLA]

FBLA EXCLUSIVE: Hang Out With Andrea Keller of Top Design - Posted February 8, 2007
Bravo's Top Design second episode started out strong when John Grey, the bear from Chicago, clued in his housemates about his HIV+ status and the massive dose of testosterone he got from his MD. Andrea Keller, ... [FishbowlLA]

Bravo Series: Sublime Tim Gunn, Ridiculous Paula Abdul - Posted January 16, 2007
Bravo orders up some fun. Bravo: Tim Gunn's Guide to Style The Project Runway dreamboat/mentor will help ordinary people maximize their fashion potential. Best news ever. Hey Paula! Cameras follow as the Idol judge goes about her business as a choreographer, a business woman, producer, sin... [FishbowlLA]