Have Beverly Hills started filming yet?

Yep, been filming for a week or two. As it stands now, it seems:

RHoOC: Finished filming, Reunion to be taped
RHoNY: Finished filming, Reunion taped
RHoA: To begin filming soon
RHoNJ: Currently filming/finished filming, to air this month.
RHoBH: Currently filming
RHoM: On hiatus

Meaning it's likely BH will be airing after NJ & Atlanta probably around the same time or just after.

I'm sure I read that Miami is in the early stages of production. They begin filming in the fall but the production company have been in Miami scouting for new wives. Miami's main problem is that they don't really have any storylines that are evolving. Lisa's has been trying to have a baby for 2 seasons. Joana's has been that Romain wont sleep with her for 2 seasons. Lea has been playing out the black gala storyline since the show began. Alexia's has been her sons accident for 2 seasons (which really was tragic) but I did like stuff last season of her trying to help Peter. Marysol had her rotating husband for a season and has relied on her mother since. Then there's Adriana, I love her but she needs some English lessons. A lot of the time what she says is inaudible.

Joana has announced that she left so they only have 4 main cast members left. I can't see new cast members bringing any interest or a recast for that matter.

Maybe they should cancel it and focus on improving New York.

However they should have a spin off called Latin Miami starring Adriana, Alexia, Ana & Marysol. They should be able to make an interesting 8 episode season about what they're doing in their lives - it could focus on their business ventures rather than cat fights and divorces.

Much as I don't want anyone to be shot, I'm surprised that Jody hasn't had her shop burned down or anything.
Last I read she was struggling because after the show nobody wanted to be associated with her. She'd really shot herself in the foot. I cant even begin to empathise with her. She has to be the most hateful cast member ever.

I still haven't started on New York. I'm going to have a massive binge after Wimbledon. I agree with all of you about the OC. It's been a brilliant season. I've been watching too much Big Brother I got hooked this year because I cant do anything, I just keep reverberating "Get Tamra out"

In BH news, apparently Brandi and Adrienne fought at the White Party...

How obvious. Apparently Adrienne wanted to make ammends but Brandi just said that she wanted back in cos she wants to be famous again.

I think it's true. Why now? It just so happens her ex-husband has his own show and you want a piece of the Housewives pie again? I don't think Adrienne had any good intentions other than wanting the target off of her. She's pretty much hated across the board since missing the Season 3 Reunion. Or at least that's how I see it.

Adrienne clearly doesn't give a fig about being famous. If she did, she'd have came to the reunion and stayed filming the whole season. Instead, she had more self respect and self worth than to roll in the mud with the pigs. She's on the show because she's a business woman and has a new jewelry line coming out that needs promoting. She also turned down the opportunity to do a show about business with her brothers.

Anyway, if she wanted to be famous or popular she wouldn't make up with Brandi to do it. Brandi is one of the most hated wives in housewives history - mostly due to her comments that she makes on her podcast.

Adrienne most likely wanted to close the nonsense if she was going to hang around with the women more often, it's clear she doesn't like to fight or have any tension. I say, good for Adrienne for being the bigger person. Shame Brandi chose it as an opportunity to have another fight with someone.

Brandi better watch, if it's true Taylor/Camille/Adrienne will all be filming this season and they get a positive reaction, it could be Brandi's last season. It certainly seems like they're going that way bringing everyone back that she had a problem with. I'm indifferent with Brandi but she's quickly becoming like Tamra from the OC, only good for fighting with the women. If she was smart she'd be making amends and building alliances before she ends up the outsider.

Does anyone beyond the RH diehard fans like us even know Brandi has a podcast? The casual viewer, who doesn't read the blogs and forums, probably isn't even aware of its existence and the outrage created from some of her comments on it.

I think her popularity was damaged only after turning on Lisa. Plus, she had been unnecessarily rude and bitchy towards Joyce last season for seemingly no real reason. Brandi's whole popularity started on the image of being the underdog. She had that big fight with Kim and Kyle on Game Night, gained popularity with viewers because they saw her fight against 2 sisters who appeared to have a snobbish attitude towards her. She was smart during her fight with Adrienne in Season 3 - she shrewdly made the entire situation look as if Adrienne was trying to use her wealth to intimidate a ''poor single mother''. Again, plenty of viewers sided with her because she used this angle.

She didn't have this in Season 4. She tried once again to play the underdog role - trying to be the ''humble girl who somehow managed to become best friends with fabulous and powerful Lisa Vanderpump, who in turn had been using her all along for her own Machiavellian reasons.'' Unfortunately for Brandi, whilst her popularity was initially built on this underdog role, it was actually her association with Lisa that allowed her to be so protected for so long... That's not to say Lisa's own popularity hasn't been dented either though. Personally, I found her attitude on Twitter and in interviews after the season ended to be very offputting - and that's all her own doing.

It's no so much that they know about her podcast but her comments a(bout wishing she had been molested, calling her kids names, talking about them sexually and saying she preferred one over the other) all made it on to magazines and TV shows like The View, Anderson Cooper & Wendy Williams. Not to mention the molested comment and the racist one on the show made it on to news channels in the states. Falling out with Lisa damaged her popularity a lot, but it had already started to fall before that. It started with all the drunk photos with her stuff on show and then nose dives with the molested comment - which was seriously inappropriate.

Lisa could have worked the situation to her advantage if she didn't milk it and overplay the victim role. She looked ridiculous. Not to mention she's just lied to the courts under oath which isn't a good look. Her carefully crafted image seems to be slowly unraveling. She proclaims she's this busy business women...but can't tell the courts a thing about her business, so she is lying to the courts or lies about being a busy business woman. I've always said there is something very shady about Ken and Lisa.

On a side not, I can't believe how poor Villa Blanca is doing considering it's heavily featured on the show - there's no way that'd be surviving if she leaves the show, it's barely staying in the green. They must have made a lot of money back in their hay-day to be able to live their current lifestyle. Either that or they're are involved in some serious tax evasion scam.

Kyle just confirmed Kim is coming back for season 5 to Allabouttrh. They said Kim was a nightmare to get hold of so they just asked Kyle lol.

Anyone watching Ladies of London? I'm loving it. I'm definitely on Caprices team.

I like Ladies of London but think it needs another Brit, maybe Lady Victoria Hervey, surely she'd love the attention, and would get her back in the public eye, although I don't think the viewing figures are good enough for renewal.

Team Caroline all the way, I can't stand Caprice and her faux upper class attitude when girl was getting her boobies out, dating footballers and appearing on Celeb Big Brother back in the day.

I agree about another Brit. The viewers have been climbing and it scored almost a million this week, which is OK. However, the absence of a reunion show isn't good.

I like Caroline. I think she's jealous of the media attention Caprice gets though. I get what you mean about Caprice, I just like that she's loyal and she defended her friend when Juliet was character assassinating her. I loved Annabelle this week, she really came out of her shell. I hope she continues to act like this, it was great to see her and Juliet make up. Juliet is just awful and cringe-worthy, but it's so entertaining to watch. Marisa (?) is starting to grow on me, as is Noelle - although I still think the latter is coming across as a gold digger. I like Julie, but aristocracy on a reality show, really?

All of their manners (minus Annabelle and Julie) at the dinner table were shocking. If I was the earl and countess I wouldn't have been so gracious.

Yeah Annabelle improved this week, but she is seriously not "rock and roll" I mean look at her granny style house she lives in. Where is any of her "rock and roll" side.

Yeah dinner was awful, I mean the whole food situation was ridiculous and production probably demanded the shellfish to screw it up further.

I guess both Hervey sisters have done reality TV so its not unheard of and that other Princess Tamara Czartoryska chick who did The Games.

Ladies Of London is getting better by the episode and I am Team Caroline! Caprice is just annoying and comes across very fake and her trying to talk british half the time grates on me :/ Caroline delivers the best comments in her talking heads and when she is talking to someone. Im also liking Juliet i find her quite funny Im actually gutted there will be no reunion

NY this week was so boring i actually had to skip some parts as i was just not interested and i found the Kristen and Heather argument really fake tbh, I dont know if anyone else noticed but both Kristen and Heather looked like they just wanted to laugh when they were shouting it could of been real but I dont think it was. Just so glad Montana is over that was properly the worst vacation on any HW show. Im actually looking forward to seeing Aviva next week she is another annoying HW but at least she brings the drama .

ITV officially commissioned a UK RH. 'The Real Housewives of Cheshire' will air on ITVBe.

Will it also show other housewives series like BH, NY and NJ?

I bet this will be embarrassingly bad.

I think itvBe is going to be home to all series of the housewives.

That sounds painfully bad, but it's nice to hear that all the shows are going to a new channel - might mean we get more airing at once.

Real Housewives of Cheshire sounds great, they really couldn't have picked a better place than the Golden Triangle for the UK version. It has that perfect balance of old and new money, of crazy old aristocratic families, industrialists and zelebs.

It's really the only place where they can get that "Real Housewives" mix of affluence mixed with vulgarity.

I'm not sure how I feel about a UK real housewives. I hope it's not like Ladies of London with all the snobbishness. We'll see though - I hope they get the seriously rich on and not the average/middle class people.

It looks like Adrienne may have a big role in the upcoming season. She was seen filming again, with Brandi. It looks like they made up. She's filmed twice in the first week of filming in public so, if she keeps this up, she'll either be a very prominent friend or they'll boost her to full-time. It's possible considering the network are putting Andy back in his box, so he doesn't have much pull now, they've downsized his office to the size of a shoe box according to reports - and at that, it's not even his office really as they have meetings in their too.

Lisa Rinna was screen tested during Kyle's white party too. She's already rifting with Brandi & Yolanda. Apparently Bravo are looking to bring her in as one of the housewives. However, ABC want her for the view so I doubt she'll come to Housewives over that.

I'm sure Lisa Rinna's name was rumoured to be joining Beverly Hills last season too.

She's already had some kind of link to Housewives already. She was right there when Bethenny called Luann a snake during a fashion show in Season 3 of NY. There was a funny moment where Kelly, totally missing or ignoring the tension between them afterwards, forces them to sit side by side so she could sit next to Lisa. As Bethenny joked Kelly would crawl over broken glass to get near a celebrity!

aaaaahhhh. The classic New York days.

A reveal of a Blind Item appeared on the CDAN site recently. It said Gretchen from OC is more than likely about to dump Slimey Slade soon because he's always mooching off of her. She's struggling now with no Bravo dollars coming in. It also said she'll dump him to find someone rich.

I can sort of see this being true. Her main storyline over the years was being with Slade. After producers of OC dropped her from the show they went to various production companies trying to pitch a spin-off - and got nowhere. Plus, in my opinion, her big elaborate proposal to Slade last year just seemed more of a proposal to Bravo in order to keep them relevant than an actual proposal of marriage.

I don't think it's unlikely either BumbleSquat.

It's crazy to think how Gretchen went from being fan favourite to most hated in the space of a few episodes. She really should have stuck with Alexis and stayed far away from Tamra. Dumping Slade sooner wouldn't have hurt either. She probably still would have got booted for lack of storyline, and the fact it was either her or V&T, but she would have found it easier to get a spin-off.

LOL Agreed.

After watching L of L it made me feel sorry for the women who represent Atlanta, NY, Miami and the OC.
I'm watching, but I cringe!

I do believe however that Vicki and Tamra pushed Gretchen out of the show at the last reunion. They brought up the cheating rumours once again, probably a calculated move on their part to highlight to everyone that Gretchen's whole story arc was constantly going around in circles and was never going to change. Gretchen's relationships with everyone were back to square one - and she had burned all her bridges with Alexis.