This series, which begins on Bravo on Thursday, is a time-traveling peek through the keyhole into a recent and resonant political scandal; it's akin to being on the pier when Gary Hart took Donna Rice to Bimini aboard the Monkey Business in 1987 or at the copier when the White House travel office employees got the pink slips in what was to become the Clintons' 1993 scandal.
The stars of "Shahs," which begins on Sunday on Bravo, are members of the reality tribe, defined not by ethnicity, nationality or religion, but by preening, boastfulness, obsession with appearances, crassness, conformism, thin skin and a tendency to violence.
The series (beginning on Wednesday on Bravo) submits practitioners of fine art to the gladiator competitions of lowbrow culture, giving painters and sculptors and photographers a shot at the celebrity now enjoyed by so many service professionals and idle wives in Orange County.
Things should be that simple for the Bannisters in Paula Milne's "Thursday the 12th," a two-part British mystery movie that begins tonight on Bravo.
Were it not for "The Fashion Show: Ultimate Collection," whose second season begins Tuesday on Bravo, our universal impression of the Somali-American supermodel Iman, an entrepreneur who is fluent in five languages, would surely have remained positive.
The subject of "Flipping Out," a reality series that begins tonight on Bravo, Mr. Lewis buys million-dollar properties, works them over and tries to sell them for a few more million.
They are the main characters of "It's a Brad, Brad World," more so than its star, Brad Goreski, a onetime student at the feet of the fashion stylist and neologizer Rachel Zoe and now captain of his own reality ship on this clunkily titled spinoff, which begins Monday on Bravo.
Joining a summer television schedule that has already given us the reality series "Texas Women" (CMT) and "Big Rich Texas" (Style) is another effort to understand the state's anthropology: "Most Eligible Dallas," beginning Monday on Bravo at 10 p.m. Eastern Time.
On "Tabloid Wars," a new series beginning tonight on Bravo, reporters and editors for The Daily News in New York are followed around by camera crews with the kind of intimate scrutiny found on "The Anna Nicole Show," "Family Bonds," "Growing Up Gotti" and "Cold Turkey".
"Tabloid Wars," a reality series that begins tonight on Bravo, is a ride-along with the reporter-schleppers and editors at the New York Daily News, the tabloid that competes for daily subway supremacy with its principal rival, the New York Post.
