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When you hear about this celebrity tussle, I think you'll feel like me: "I would love to be a fly on the wall to watch these two go at it!" It turns out that Bravo's reality star, Flipping Out's Jeff Lewis, is fighting with Ashley Jensen, who plays Christina on Ugly Betty.

Jeff, who specializes in buying properties then fixing them up and selling them -- flipping -- has a house under construction right next door to the home of Ashley and hubby Terence Beesley. If you've watched even one episode of Flipping Out, you know that Jeff has OCD and is extremely difficult to work for -- he fires workers at least twice a season -- and presses buttons like nobody's business.

This tussle falls under the pressing buttons category. Lewis had a deck built onto the house he was re-constructing, the one right next door to Ashley's, and went over the property line. Now, in Yonkers that would be a reason to get upset; in Hollywood, it's a good enough reason to go to war.

I'm overly excited about the news that The Rachel Zoe Project has been picked up for a second season on Bravo. I got hooked on the first season this fall, and have grown to love that pixie stylist and her dysfunctional assistants.

If you haven't watched the show, it follows the crazy life of Rachel Zoe, an L.A.-based stylist to celebs like Debra Messing and Molly Sims. She makes the stars look good on the red carpet, on magazine covers, and at fashion shows, and mixes with all sorts of interesting people, like designers Marc Jacobs and Michael Kors.

But all the fun really happens inside Rachel's studio, where she tries to keep everybody happy, including hubby Rodger, and squabbling assistants Taylor Jacobson and Brad Goreski. Those two are as opposite as they come, but that's what makes it fun for the rest of us.

• NBC has Olympics coverage all night.
• At 8, ESPN has two new episodes of The World Series of Poker.
• ABC Family has a new Secret Life of The American Teen at 8.
• TCM has Pushover at 8, followed by 5 Against The House.
• At 9, ABC has a new Wanna Bet?, then a new Primetime: Medical Mysteries.
• CBS has a new Big Brother at 9.
• PBS has a new Wide Angle at 9.
• Sci-Fi has a new Eureka at 9, then a new ECW.
• There's a new Flipping Out on Bravo at 9, followed by a new Million Dollar Listing.
• At 9:30, Food Network has a new Road Tasted with The Neeleys.
• At 10, FX has a new Rescue Me minisode.
• Lifetime has a new How To Look Good Naked at 10.
  
• Discovery has a new Smash Lab at 10.

Check your local TV listings for more.

• At 8, ABC has a new Wipeout, followed by the two hour season finale of I Survived A Japanese Game Show.
• ABC Family has a new Secret Life of the American Teenager at 8, then the new movie Picture This!
• ESPN has two new episodes of The World Series of Poker at 8.
• At 9, CBS has a new Big Brother.
• NBC has a new America's Got Talent at 9.
• Sci-Fi has a new Eureka at 9, then a new ECW.
• Food Network has a new Food Detectives at 9, followed by a new Road Tasted with The Neelys.
• At 9:30, HGTV has a new episode of The Stagers.
• At 10, A&E has a new episode of The Cleaner.
• FX has another new Rescue Me minisode at 10.
• There's a new How To Look Good Naked on Lifetime at 10.
• Discovery has a new Smash Lab at 10.
• At 11, Bravo has the season premiere of Million Dollar Listing.

Check your local TV listings for more.

• At 8, ABC has a new Wipeout, followed by new episodes of I Survived A Japanese Game Show and Primetime.
• NBC has a new Celebrity Family Feud at 8, then a new America's Got Talent.
• ESPN has two new episodes of The World Series of Poker at 8.
• At 8:30, Food Network has a new Good Eats.
• At 9, CBS has a new Big Brother.
• Sci-Fi has the season premiere of Eureka at 9, then a new ECW.
  
• PBS has a new Wide Angle at 9.
• Discovery has a new Dirty Jobs at 9 (part of Shark Week).
• At 9:30, Food Network has a new Road Tasted with the Neelys.
• At 10, Lifetime has a new How To Look Good Naked.
• FX has another Rescue Me webisode at 10.
• A&E has a new episode of The Cleaner at 10.
• Also at 10: Bravo has a new Flipping Out.

Check your local TV listings for more.

Despite rumors and conspiracy theories about Bravo trying to sabotage Project Runway because the show is leaving them for Lifetime, the premiere had the most viewers for a premiere that the network has ever seen, 2.9 million. That was enough to make Bravo the #1 cable network from 9-10 in all key demographics. And Project Runway was the top ranked cable telecast for the day in adults 18-49.

That's certainly cause for celebration, but there's more good news. The fourth episode of Shear Genius managed a milestone of its own, becoming just the fifth Bravo show to top 2 million viewers for an episode. The others are Queer Eye, Top Chef, Project Runway, and The Real Housewives of Orange County. Completing the trifecta of personal bests, Flipping Out broke a million viewers for the first time.

The success sets the stage for a very interesting ratings drama once Project Runway debuts on Lifetime. Will the fans follow the show to Lifetime? And will the Lifetime audience embrace a show that seems to fit the network's brand about as well as a new season of Queer Eye on Spike? I'd prefer to see it stay at Bravo, but I'm all kinds of curious to watch the change play out.

This is a rather confusing story. Or maybe all of this heat is getting to me and there's obvious point here I'm missing.

Nielsen Media surveyed 82,000 18-49 year-olds (a rather hefty sample), and 75% of the respondents say that Bravo is the most engaging network. Yup, the network of reality shows (is there anything else on the network these days?) holds the attention of that key demographic more than any other channel, network or cable, including runner-up CBS (which got 74%), ABC (73%), The CW (71%), NBC (70%), and FOX (69%).

Soap operas are a funny form of television fiction. They have rules all its own, they can tell all kinds of stories and do them in the most unusual ways. Here's a few things I've noticed lately, things that seem to only be possible, on a soap.

Only on a soap...can a medical clinic be conceived, built and stocked in less than a month.
It's true. It happened in Port Charles. On General Hospital, soon after Emily died -- and Nikolas stopped seeing visions of her thanks to a brain tumor -- he decided to dedicate a health clinic in her memory. Since Nikolas is a royalty, some kind of prince, cost was no object. He never met with an architect or designer, never spoke to contractors, never searched for a location and dealt with permits. He did have a fight with the mayor for a couple of shows about opening the clinic after it was already completed. If only all construction projects could be done so easily. Jeff Lewis on Bravo's Flipping Out doesn't even work that fast!

• Did you know that Fine Living has new episodes of Emeril Live every night at 7?
• At 8, ABC has a new Wipeout, followed by new episodes of I Survived A Japanese Game Show and Primetime: The Outsiders.
• FOX has a new Moment of Truth (I thought the summer finale already happened?) at 8, then the season finale of Hell's Kitchen.
• NBC has new episodes of Celebrity Family Feud and America's Got Talent.
• At 9, Discovery has a new Deadliest Catch, then a new After The Catch.
• At 10, FX has a new Rescue Me minisode, followed by the season finale of 30 Days.
• Bravo has a new Flipping Out at 10.
• Lifetime Movie Network has the movie Nightmare at the End of the Hall at 10.

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Has Bravo gone to the well once too much? It sure seems that way. Hot on the success of The Real Housewives of New York City, which was inspired by The Real Housewives of Orange County, Bravo is now rolling out The Real Housewives of Atlanta.

Now, listen, I've watched the first two series; I admit that they are addictive. And they're convenient because Bravo re-airs them again and again, but come on! This is like Coffee-Mate coming up with all these flavored creamers. Do we really need so many creamers?

Bravo is bringing back Million Dollar Listing for a second season this summer. The docu-series gives viewers an inside look at the most exclusive realtors in the Los Angeles area, a luxurious but dangerous place to work. Despite the soft market, these agents will stop at nothing to close million dollar deals in neighborhoods like Malibu, Beverly Hills and Hollywood.

Josh Flagg, Madison Hildebrand and Chad Rogers, L.A.'s up-and-coming realtors, are the stars of this season. Flagg is known to send clients up in helicopters to view properties and has wrapped a home in a big red bow for a pair of new owners. Hildebrand, touted as the "King of Malibu," has sold over 80 million in real estate in the past two years. Rogers had his real estate license at the age of 18. Some of his celebrity clients include Paris Hilton, Nick Lachey, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Minnie Driver, and Coach Larry Brown.

• At 8, ABC has the series premiere of Wipeout, followed by the series premiere of I Survived A Japanese Game Show and a new Primetime: The Outsiders.
• NBC has the series premiere of Celebrity Family Feud, then a new America's Got Talent.
• At 9, FOX has a new Hell's Kitchen.
• PBS has a new Frontline at 9.
• Discovery has a new Deadliest Catch at 9.
• VH-1 has two new episodes of I Love The Millennium starting at 9.
• At 10, FX has a new minisode of Rescue Me, then a new 30 Days.
• There's a new Mega Disasters on History Channel at 10.
• Bravo has a new Flipping Out at 10.
• HBO has a new Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel at 10.
• Also at 10: Oxygen has a new Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood.

Check your local TV listings for more.

(S02E01) I watched the first season of Flipping Out on Bravo last summer based on a teaser I saw during Top Chef 3. The show is about a real estate "flipper" who buys properties, fixes them up and then resells them for a profit. You might say, "Yawn, that's just like a bunch of other shows on TLC, Discovery, et al." Well, yes, that's true.

But Flipping Out isn't really about the flipping, it's about the flipper -- Jeff Lewis. This guy Lewis is not normal. I mean it, he's not. He says he's not. He's obsessive compulsive and it comes out in everything he does. It makes him a better flipper, because of his attention to detail, but it also makes him really hard to take if you're his employee, partner or contractor. But, boy, is it fun to watch Jeff Lewis's life! That's what Flipping Out is really all about and it's back.

• At 8, ABC has game six of the Celtics/Lakers NBA Finals.
• CBS has the new special AFI's 10 Top 10 at 8.
• NBC has a new Deal or No Deal at 8, followed by the season premiere of America's Got Talent.
• FOX has new episodes of Moment of Truth and Hell's Kitchen.
• At 9, PBS has a new Frontline.
• Discovery has a new Deadliest Catch at 9, then a new After The Catch.
• At 10, FX has a new 30 Days.
• Bravo has the season premiere of Flipping Out at 10.
• History Channel has a new Mega Disasters at 10.
• Oxygen has the premiere of Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood at 10.
• Also at 10: Sci-Fi has a new ECW.

Check your local TV listings for more.

He's the most colorful, neurotic, and unpredictable real estate speculator / house flipper on television and he's back on Bravo this June. Once again, fans of Flipping Out will get to watch Jeff Lewis buy properties, renovate them and sell them for six-figure profits, all while torturing his assistants and other employees.

But this season will be different. Firstly, the soft market should create even more drama and tension in Jeff's world. Secondly, Jeff is trying to turn over a new leaf and not treat his employees like, well, you know. I'm skeptical. I seem to remember Jeff nearly "flipping out" about not getting the right combination of lemonade, fruit punch, iced tea and sprite for his beverage. He also fires someone at least once an episode. In fact, this season Jeff installs a nanny cam to spy on his workers.