When Bravo announced Tuesday that the cable network was launching "The Real Housewives of D.C.," it was the first official confirmation of whispers that have circulated around Washington for months: Like it or not, reality TV is coming to the nation’s capital.
Although Bravo is out first with an actual announcement, three production companies have taken steps in recent months to create five different Washington, DC - based reality shows.
Half Yard Productions of Bethesda is behind "The Real Housewives of D.C.," which will focus on Washington's established elite, and "Inside Washington," which would be aimed at the younger party set. Los Angeles-based 44 Blue Productions has been working on two ideas - "The Hill," which would chronicle the lives of young political types, and "Women of Influence," which would focus, as the name suggests, on the capital's most powerful women.
And the CW network has greenlighted "Blonde Charity Mafia," a "docu-series" that follows some of D.C.'s most avid 20-something party-goers as they trot through the cocktail-and-charity-event circuit.
I'm just waiting for the show "Policy Analyst Studs." I'll be first in line!
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- Mark Gorman
- I was born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, along the banks of the Susquehanna River, in the valley made up by Bald Eagle Mountain to the south, and gentle hills and valleys to the north. That place that sheltered me, gave me food and friends, and both physical and spiritual nourishment for 18 years. That is the space where I was physically and emotionally formed. Ever since growing up there . . . because of growing up there . . . I have been inexorably linked to nature . . . to the earth and to all life.