Bethenny critiques (and praises) some of the major moves of the Real Housewives franchise. Find out what caused her to use the phrases “crashed and burned," "Titanic" and "disaster” AND of course, always with a plan to save the day...hear her plan to right the ship.
Okay, so listen, let's talk about The Roney Ultimate Girls Trip Legacy Bravo. Finally, years ago, I used to call Andy, and this is a long time ago, and you can call him and ask him. I used to say, what are you gonna do all Stars? And what are you gonna do the mashup? And why don't you do the road trip and road rules? And he'd be like, not yet, it'll come. So it's not a great sign for the regular franchise in the sense that, you know, the way people watch TV and streamers and everything, that's definitely declined, but no one's worried about it. It's thriving, but they've changed the amount that they will pay people, which means that ratings are down and just people are watching television differently. Obviously, I never watch normal television. I watch streamers. So the Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip Legacy, addition, is a cautionary tale for life and for business and for the entertainment industry. So it's a lesson. There's a lesson to learn, and there's a lesson about negotiating. So The Real Housewives Legacy was going to be a new show, and it was weird when Bravo announced that they were going to announce two new shows at the same time. Andy asked me why I said something negative about it on his show, and I said, because it was a weird announcement. You're like, oh, hi, we're doing this and we're doing that, and we're gonna announce them on the same day. And it was strange. It was called, we have a whole new cast for New York. Okay, great, we understand that we have a whole new cast of new people, new fresh blood. Then we're gonna do a rehash of former people, but we don't know who they are yet, and we're not really announcing something. We're going to be announcing something we're eventually going to be announcing. It was sort of like bullshit. It was like they had to announce something, but it was weird. They had to like explain to the viewer why that show died. Because ratings crashed and burned on Real Housewives of New York for different reasons. So I left, and you know, the Titanic sunk. It was crazy, Like I'm not saying because I left it. I left, and like you saw the decline in ratings, and they made a lot of bad decisions. Every year they made another bad decision and it just crashed and burned and hit an iceberg and the boat is under the ocean. So now they gave this weird announcement about some new show that was legacy, but like they didn't say who was in it, and it was just a strange, weird, water down, bullshit announcement. And I called it then, and I recalled it on Andy's show, and it's I said what I said. So now they canceled it on entirely. And it's because Jill, which is true. I know this is true, was overplayed her hand and overnegotiated. She wanted to get paid, but the other girls were getting paid, which I understand because it's a new show. I understand that part of it. But they all had been on TV for years I also understand, So everybody fucked up. Girls who had been on it for years should have all said, we'll all come down and meet in the middle, and we should all get a new salary because it's a new show. But everybody fucked up. The people who were getting paid the most, the Sonja's, the Luanne's and whoever was fighting, and that's Luanne on that end to stay with their salary, and Duranda probably wanted to come back where she left and all that makes some sense. And Jill wanting to be paid the same, She makes some sense in wanting to be paid the same, and actually they don't make that much sense and wanted to be made the same because some of them were fired. Most of them were fired, and like it's all expired and we're trying to make like expired milk fresh and you can't. So we needed to like come to the middle where everybody was going to get paid a number, and I'm gonna tell you the number, like the low number. Jill probably left that like a couple hundred thousand dollars, maybe two or something like two hundred fifth Dan, I don't know if you have five of seasons, a couple hundred thousand dollars, And the sons and loans got themselves up, you know, and they probably had to get demoted because they were friends and had to go in circle. So they were probably at like, no, not a million, but like let's call up between seven eight hundred, somewhere between like six and eight hundred thousand, like a fifty. Just give me a general range, I'm just telling you, no one was making over a million dollars and Jill was not making under like two fifty. That's a range. I'm not going to be exact, but I'm trust me. I know what I'm talking about. So everybody should have come together to do a real season that could have had some real episodes, and they should have come together and been at like four to five hundred. Right, it would have been a demotion and it would have been a raise or four hundred whatever it would have been. They all had to come together because they don't have the same income, so everybody needed to make a sacrifice. The people that had been there, Okay, maybe even three fifty. Okay, so now what they have now what bo decided to do because that crashed and burned and they couldn't come to an arrangement. And once you've pounded your chest and overplayed your hand, you know it gets burned. You scorched the earth because you're negotiating. Style sucks. Bravo now had a genius idea, and I did say something like this. I did say on social media they should get a blonde, have more fun, and just take the fired housewives that will do it. For anything, and mash them together and put them together and do a blonde to have more fun. Right, who are they coming back? It's Surrenda, it's probably Alex, it's Kelly's Tinsley. It's kind of what I said. So now what they're doing is bringing them all together and doing an ultimate Girls trip with people that are gonna go for a week for one hundred grand, and they need the sizzle, and they want the moment, and they want the press, they want the hit in the vein. So now you're gonna get the people that'll do it for one hundred grand or so overtake for a week's work, so everybody wins. Bravo gets something economical. So if you get five to seven girls, it's gonna be five to seven hundred thousand, which is what some of the girls were probably asking for for the whole new Legacy show anyway. So you're getting all the housewives for one week for the price of one, and you're probably gonna get six to eight episodes anyway, and the legacy, bulky, clunky, expensive one that would cost a couple of million would have probably gone you twelve to eighteen episodes. Okay, this is gonna get you six to eight and you saved all this money. It's fucking genius for everybody. And Jill, who maybe overplayed her hand, maybe overplayed her negotiating hand, she's not in it because she burnt scorched the earth, as Jill does with Bravo. So trust and believe. I'm not far I'm not far off with my numbers. I'm not far off with my concept. I'm not far off with my logic. And I've been doing this a minute. So props to Peacock and Bravo for doing the economical sound business thing and mashing it up and taking a week's work for producer. You don't even have to pay the producers for more than a week, and you take them away. You know, it's like taking people to the Berkshires and it's like you're getting so much apple juice for the squeeze. Bravo, Bravo, fucking Bravo. Good idea. And I said what I said, I love it. Picasso