The Actual Housewives of Dubai will not be returning to Bravo for season 3 anytime quickly, and government producer Andy Cohen tells PEOPLE the choice is not private.
“It is simply good enterprise,” Cohen, 56, says, whereas on the crimson carpet of Bravo Fan Fest 2024 on Saturday, Nov. 23 in Miami, Fla. “We now have a number of Housewives going proper now. And it is one of many causes it took so lengthy to get The Actual Housewives of Atlanta going, and one of many causes we’re in a deep pause with The Actual Housewives of New Jersey. We simply wish to make sure that we get the whole lot proper and be very deliberate with the whole lot we’re doing.”
Community executives instructed solid members from RHODubai that their present was occurring pause earlier this month, PEOPLE can affirm.
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The sequence — which initially starred Housewives Chanel Ayan, Sara Al Madani, Caroline Brooks, Lesa Milan, Caroline Stanbury and Nina Ali — first premiered in June 2022, making historical past as Bravo’s first worldwide installment of the franchise. However regardless of loads of glamor and drama throughout the group, the present did not hit the airways for season two till June 2024, two entire years later.
That absence seemingly a robust affect on the excitement for the sequence, with audiences complaining that the momentum had been misplaced. Casting modifications, together with the departure of Ali and the addition of Taleen Marie and Buddy Saba Yussouf, did not seemingly assist in the scores.
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However scores, Cohen tells PEOPLE, is barely a part of the story when the community is figuring out what exhibits to deliver again or not.
Working example: The Actual Housewives of New Jersey. Final season, the present was bringing in larger in a single day scores than The Actual Housewives of New York Metropolis and The Actual Housewives of Salt Lake Metropolis have been. However the sequence was nonetheless positioned on pause, with solid divisions main the community to debate potentialities of a reboot.
“The beauty of the Housewives usually is that the numbers are tremendous excessive for all of them throughout the board, particularly if you consider Peacock and streaming,” he tells PEOPLE. “You may’t have a look at in a single day or dwell scores anymore. It simply does not inform the entire story. And once we’re making choices, we’re actually trying on the full image.”
“We love these exhibits,” Cohen provides. “All of us wish to get it proper.”
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Followers additionally love these exhibits, are clamoring for brand spanking new methods to debate them on the day by day.
Bravo Fan Fest is without doubt one of the community’s latest initiatives. Introduced again in August within the wake of reports that there would not be a BravoCon 2024, the “intimate one-day celebration” featured appearances from an all-star lineup of 30 Bravolebrities.
Attendees had been in a position to work together with them in themed activations, panels and photograph alternatives. There have been additionally 5 particular episodes of WWHL taped.”
“We determined to skip a 12 months of BravoCon however take our present on the highway to a giant Bravo group,” Cohen explains. “It is working nice and I am actually thrilled on the response.”
BravoCon will likely be again for 2025, although. The conference will return to Caesars Discussion board in Las Vegas subsequent 12 months, for the weekend of Nov. 14-16.
