million dollar listing-related stories
Posted Oct 26th 2009 8:32AM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Programming, OpEd, Video
Sometimes I like to indulge in my guilty pleasure of watching several hours of the Bravo channel all at once. I can't say I'm hooked on the network -- it's mostly reality shows -- but sometimes it's fun to just watch something totally mindless. In Bravo's case, I usually end up feeling much better about my own life.
This afternoon, I watched a few episodes of
Million Dollar Listing, the show about three real estate agents in Los Angeles. Season three premiered last Monday, and I feel for these guys -- Josh Flagg, Madison Hildebrand and Chad Rogers -- because it can't be easy trying to sell homes in this market. It seems like a tough business to be in anyway, and they have to deal with bleached blonde Hollywood types, many of whom think they have all the answers.
Continue reading Million Dollar Listing's Chad Rogers looks like he's twelve
Posted Oct 19th 2009 12:15PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Late Night, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free
At 8, ABC has a new, two-hour Dancing with the Stars, then a new Castle.- CBS has a new How I Met Your Mother at 8, followed by new episodes of Accidentally on Purpose, Two and a Half Men, Big Bang Theory, and CSI: Miami.
- NBC has new episodes of Heroes, Trauma, and The Jay Leno Show.
- FOX has a new House, then a new Lie To Me.
- The CW has a new One Tree Hill at 8, followed by a new Gossip Girl.
- ABC Family has a new Lincoln Heights at 8, then a new Greek.
- TLC has two new episodes of Little People, Big World at 8, followed by a new Jon & Kate Plus 8.
- Also at 8: Food Network has a new Good Eats.
- At 8:30, ESPN has Monday Night Football, the Broncos vs. the Chargers.
- At 9, USA has a new Monday Night RAW.
- Food Network has a new Unwrapped at 9.
- At 10, Food Network has a new Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives.
- TLC has a new Ultimate Cake-Off at 10.
- Bravo has a new Million Dollar Listing at 10.
Check your
local TV listings for more.
After the jump, the late night talk shows.
Continue reading What's On Tonight: Accidentally on Purpose, Little People, Big World, Gossip Girl
Posted Dec 9th 2008 12:06PM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Programming, OpEd, Pickups and Renewals
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.
Continue reading Rachel Zoe returns - Shut.Up!
Posted Aug 4th 2008 2:01PM by Erin Martell
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Celebrities
There's no such thing as a good time to get arrested, but some moments are worse than others. For example, most people probably wouldn't want to be charged with a crime within a week of their reality TV debut. Just ask Josh Flagg, one of the stars of
Million Dollar Listing's second season.
Flagg was recently arrested for stealing expensive works of art that he had been hired to sell.
When he's not
flying his clients around in helicopters and wrapping mansions in bows, Flagg works as an estate broker. He's been charged with stealing valuable art by Chagall and Picasso from the estates that he managed. Flagg's out on bail, but this probably isn't the kind of publicity he wanted before the show's premiere.
Continue reading Million Dollar Listing star arrested
Posted Aug 4th 2008 7:33AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming, Celebrities, Reality-Free
Our Monday morning roundup of a half dozen things TV Squad readers - and TV fans in general - will be talking about this week.1. The Olympics. NBC, along with CNBC and MSNBC and USA and the web, will have approximately 477,312 hours of coverage. (Starts Friday.)
2. Primeval. New show about a rip in time that lets dinosaurs come through to modern England. Is
this one of them? (Premieres Saturday at 9 on BBC America.)
3. The season finales of American Gladiator and Nashville Star. People do still care about these shows, right? (Tonight on NBC.)
4. So You Think You Can Dance. The season finale. We know what happens to
Idol winners, but what happens to the winners of this show? (Wednesday at 8 on FOX.)
5. I Want To Work For Diddy. I'm not saying that. It's the name of a new reality show. (Premieres tonight at 9 on VH-1.)
6. Million Dollar Listing. One of the stars was
arrested last week, just before the second season premiere. There's no such thing as bad publicity, as the saying goes. (Tuesday at 11 on Bravo.)
Posted Jun 26th 2008 12:27PM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Programming, OpEd
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.
Continue reading Million Dollar Listing premieres this summer on Bravo
Posted Nov 8th 2006 7:32PM by Julia Ward
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Cable, Industry, OpEd, Pickups and Renewals
Project Runway aside, Bravo is obsessed with the SoCal good life. The network that brings you
Work Out,
The Real Housewives of Orange County and
Million Dollar Listing doesn't think you're getting quite enough of a glimpse into what Botox-ed blondes and metrosexual old-timers are doing with their free time so
they've teamed up with Snackaholic Productions to bring you
Welcome to the Parker, a one-hour reality show focused on the staff and guests of the posh
Parker Palm Springs hotel.
Shooting on the series begins this month. The show will premiere next year. I'm glad to see that Bravo has cornered the market on wish-fulfillment reality programming, but does America really give a crap about a hotel that has a "manifesto" which reads, "We believe in the American country club experience: mixed doubles, a long steam, and a stiff cocktail?" Did they hire the editors of
Esquire to come up with that? Don't get me wrong. I love
Esquire, and heck, the hotel looks like a marvel of mid-50s, modernist design. I'm just not sure that I want to see any country club on TV that doesn't have Bill Murray hunting for gophers on its greens.
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