Bravo Bolsters Lineup

NEW YORK, April 16: Bravo
has added Monday as a fourth night of original programming, and has unveiled a
slate of 12 returning series and four new shows, increasing the network’s
output by 45 percent.

Series returning to Bravo
include Flipping Out, which
will debut its second season this summer; Kathy Griffin My Life on the D
List, with season four launching
June 12 at 9 p.m.; and second seasons of Million Dollar Listing and The Millionaire Matchmaker. The Real
Housewives of New York and its
sister series The Real Housewives of Orange County both return to the network, along with season two
of Shear Genius and Tim
Gunn’s Guide to Style. The
competition series Top Chef and
Top Design are both coming back
for new seasons as well. The network is also slated to air its fifth season of Project
Runway before it moves to
Lifetime.

Bravo also has new series
and specials in production, including the first-ever Bravo’s A-List Awards, premiering June 12 at 10 p.m., with a red carpet
pre-show at 8:30 p.m. Celebrity stylist Rachel Zoe will star in the docu-drama The
Rachel Zoe Project for the
network, which has also picked up eight episodes of the reality dating series Date
My Ex, starring The Real
Housewives of Orange County alums
Jo De La Rosa and Slade Smiley. The network is also adding a new chapter to its
hit franchise with The Real Housewives of New Jersey.

The channel’s development
slate includes Donatella, which
follows New York restaurateur Donatella Arpaia; Miami Social, looking at the lives of a group of young
professionals living in South Beach; and Tabatha’s Salon Takeover, a reality series starring Tabatha Coffey, a
contestant from season one of Shear Genius.

Today, the network
launched MoviesWithoutPity.com, a movie site for film fans that features
reviews of trailers, daily movie commentary with movie news, a blog and weekly
recommendations. This comes on the heels of Bravo re-launching Television
Without Pity, which now includes improved navigation and functionality as well
as new features such as an online video program, user-generated TV encyclopedia
and more.

"Bravo's continued
historic growth is not just about any one show, it's a consumer-immersed
environment," said Lauren Zalaznick, the president of Bravo Media and
Oxygen Media. "Bravo Media has evolved into a global multimedia company in
which we engage with our viewers at every consumer touch point in an effort to
be more Bravo, more often, in more places."

—By Kristin
Brzoznowski