A SHOW IN ATL WITHOUT THE RICHES??? - GET OUTTA TOWN!!!

We were burned to the ground in the Civil War... driven into the ground by the Olympics... and now we have to deal with this? Atlanta deserves better.

Ahhhhh shut up clint real housewives is a great show!

I thought HouseWIVES were married women who didn't WORK???

Tasha,

that's what I thought a housewife was also and I will still watch just to be nosey!

Yes, this is "REAL Housewives of Atlanta" not "REAL Single Mothers of Atlanta". come on guys...give me a break!!! Couldn't the producers find more Housewives!!!!

Shut up and watch the show.....

I agree with Jessica. If you can remember that not all the housewives were married in Cali or NY, so why are you tripping about the definition? If you watch the shows you would know that. Save the space and turn off the television if you don't like it.

I have lived in Atlanta my whole life and am appalled by the women that were chosen for this show. Anyone who is familiar with Atlanta knows that you cant be called a true Atlantan without actually living inside the Perimeter. These women don't even live within 20 minutes of Atlanta. The women also do not portray a good picture of the prestigious women that do live in Atlanta. I can think of many others that would be a better fit for this show. The choices that were made are embarrassing to me and my friends and family who actually reside in Atlanta.

Has anyone ever heard of diversity???? This show portrays Atlanta to be a predominantly black community, which it is not!!!! I think it is ridiculous that Bravo is airing a show that is unrealistic and offensive to the true Atlanta community.

These ladies could have not said it better..

Melissa: I have lived in Atlanta my whole life and am appalled by the women that were chosen for this show. Anyone who is familiar with Atlanta knows that you cant be called a true Atlantan without actually living inside the Perimeter. These women don't even live within 20 minutes of Atlanta. The women also do not portray a good picture of the prestigious women that do live in Atlanta. I can think of many others that would be a better fit for this show. The choices that were made are embarrassing to me and my friends and family who actually reside in Atlanta.

Posted by Melissa | July 26, 2008 8:34 AM

Nicole: Has anyone ever heard of diversity???? This show portrays Atlanta to be a predominantly black community, which it is not!!!! I think it is ridiculous that Bravo is airing a show that is unrealistic and offensive to the true Atlanta community.

Posted by Nicole | July 26

When has a single mom ever been defined as a housewife? That is so senseless!

Nicole, so what that Atlanta is portrayed as predominantly black city.
Are you saying that it is offensive because of that? Here's the race card. You're racist! You speak of diversity and there was not one black person on either of the previous housewives. The women who you, Catherine and Melissa thought should have made the show were too stuck up and boring as hell. This is diversity. So, shut up and watch the damn show!

I'm looking forward to the show and telling all my co-workers to watch it. I'm like Bob and Jesica just watch the show or turn your channel. I know there are black housewives that live in Orange County and in NYC-we didn't see any!! Why can't the sisters make some money and give us a peek in their lives. I'm all for it!! You go GLAM SISTERS!!

yep I pretty much agree with everyone I think the single women are boring but as long ad they have a ton of money I dont mind watching. I'm from Cali and if I think anyone brings shame to their state its the orange county girls. I think that there not the best women to represent the uppercrust of California. But thats just what I think, its still a great show!

Catherine, Melissa and Nicole (and others like us) thank you. On diversity...Really, that wasn't the "best" representattion of diversity. There are millions of people in "Metro Atlanta", surely there were some more palatable yet equally entertaining personalities. More simply put, a better representation of African American women. Frankie, thank you, I will leave you with your peeps and watch something else. Better yet, I'll do what I should have been doing and read a book.

This looks like another "Flavor of Love." They could not be more low-class and shallow. That preview was enough. Yeccch!

Good representation does not necessarily make good TV.. some of these ladies look girls who started out at the bottom and clawed their way to the top... you can take the girl out of the streets/trailer but you can't take the streets/trailer out of the girl.. I thought it was funny that Kim and NeNe are the friends... they seem like the 2 who were the least cultured and business savy. It'll be trashy TV at it's best.. just like the others..

I watched about half of the show early this morning during insomnia attack. It should be call the "Real gold diggers of Atlanta". The single hoochie with two daughters that lives off of Big Papa? What a lovely example of motherhood she is. And whatever NeNe's husband sees in her is beyond me. Sheree's ticket to ride comes in the form of a celebrity divorce. She prides herself in being a successful woman. I am so sure that her prospective husbands are going to think twice about making her an even greater success in life. DeShawn has lost herself in that big old mansion and the wait staff. Pretty soon even her parents won't know who she is.

I'll watch the show when I can. I watched a few of the Orange County episodes. I am just dumbfounded at the lack of self-respect that people have for themselves.

I watched it and found it interesting. I especially had to watch when I realized that I know one of the husbands. I actually feel sorry for him. (smile) But, to each his own, only what you do for CChrist will last!

I watched it and I was appalled at the show and the representation of Atlanta women. Ive been in metro Atlanta my entire life. Kim is a gold digger, plain and simple. It made me SICK watching her write that $68,000 check for her Escalade. I'm willing to bet that her "Big Papa" is a married man and she's his kept woman. Pretty pathetic and I feel sorry for her daughters. Nene is just a spaz and it is quite obvious, she is married FOR the money. Sheree is just an arrogant woman and she has money BECAUSE of a celebrity divorce. Kim is awesome! I think she is down to earth and she really has a zest for life and she deserves everything she has. Deshawn..Well, I will have to watch more on her but I think that her house and her "staff" is just ridiculous and I feel she needs to stop complaining about being a single mom during BB season when obviously, the "nanny and governess" are the moms whenever they are around. Its a crap show but Ill watch it just so my opinons can be more vaidated.

My sister is law is a perfect woman for this show. My brother is an executive chef at one of Atlanta's 5 star restaurants and while they have money, she works part time AND raises their 4 children under the age of 5. THAT is a REAL housewife of Atlanta!

I've watch all the "Housewife"episodes. I enjoy watching them. Everyone knows that most of shows are scripted and that there has to be some drama in which to keep people interested in watching. That's what i think. They sound very mercenary. Because people with money and class don't brag about what they have, and they certainly don't flaunt it. They are loud and obnoxious. But we can't stop watching it. It's fun to watch....

i don't know what to think just yet. i missed the first seven minutes so i missed the introduction of the first housewife (or first two.) i'm going to watch it just because i watched oc & ny but i would have liked to see them do something more than shop, the shopping takes me back to the oc housewives where all they do is spend. if you think about ny was more about the social circles then spending money in every episode. never the less, i hope it portrays positive images because from the previews it looks like it's going to be a lot of messy drama.

Sheree Whitfield hosted a party at the Fay Gold Gallery on April 20, 2008. “The Real Housewives of Atlanta" filmed the event & there was other media coverage. Ms. Whitfield enlisted the services of Ardoin Enterprises to replace the event planner she fired on air. Ardoin Enterprises was notified in less than 12 hours to provide desserts & decoration for the dessert table & ice sculpture table. Ms. Whitfield was billed the following day for the bakery bill of $346.61 & an additional discounted charge of $50 for services rendered. Ms. Whitfield wrote a check for $386 which bounced and after repeated attempts to collect the debt has not paid to date (7/31/08). She has been notified via telephone & email & has been presented with various methods of payment including credit card but has failed to make good on her obligation. She is on the verge of being sued in small claims court for the debt owed.

I was offended, too, when Sheree mentioned that HER apparent affluence came at the expense of her divorce from (former?) football player Bob Whitfield.

I never heard of Mr. Whitfield, and wonder if anyone can provide any background on his career, how long it lasted, and how he could have afforded to make Sheree so wealthy (I'm sure that she 'earned' her Community Property!)

Sheree's marital/divorce comments should be made to be required-instruction, to all professional rookie athletes!

Thanks!

OK, I just found

I was, previously, mis-spelling his name, and had come-up with nothing.

15 seasons in the NFL, after being a first round (8th overall) draft choice in 1992.

Retired after 2007 season.

Dunno about children/child-support, but it must burn his butt to have to watch his Ex spend his hard-earned money.

Sorry to keep ranting on Sheree (I've been happily maried for 32 years, so it's not personal)but I also recall her saying (this is what torqued my nuts)that she wanted to "maintain her lifestyle" after her divorce, as if that were an entitlement, that she had somehow earned, instead of having-married-into!

Ok, I feel better, now, and will shut-up, and keep on watching that train-wreck of a show, and just be glad that I don't actually KNOW any people, like those portrayed on that show.

This show is no different from the OC and NY shows so I don't see why people are having a problem with it. Because they are showing women of color????
It's a tv show, it's meant to be entertaining. Of course there could be a better representation of women on this show, as well as the previous shows, but that probably wouldn't bring in the same ratings.

I truly hate this show. I have watched it will try to watch it a couple more times, just to give it a fair chance. I don't care how much money these women have, they are still classless. I am embarassed by the show. Some of the women look and act like real Hoochie mommas. This isn't something that I would want to perpetuate for my people. There are too many intelligent women in Atlanta for this to happen.They could have chosen better. I would love to see them do something constructive. I know there were no black women on Orange County or New Yourk, but I would rather do without than have my people portrayed this way. This is not better than nothing. This is a giant step back. Who ever chose these women and approved the episodes, should be ashamed.

I Live in the ATL (The Cascades)
I love the show, I am surprised ath the response here. The Women on the OC work my last nerve.
And are bad mother that allow the children to run wild, while getting there Botox and Weaves.

I actually was awake to see the 'meet the wives' episode when it, first aired.
I first of all, thought the OC wives were awful, they did however, provide entertainment. I don't know if anyone from 'old' money would expose themselves to nationwide TV. I think that is why Bravo makes the choices they do. I do feel, these women have many reason's for doing a show like this, 1. the money, I heard the OC girls make $100 K per season and 2. the exposure to their current business', Vicky's insurance company's business went through the roof, Lauri and Lorilee started a jewerly company and their peices are selling faster than they can make them.

I have not been to Atlanta in years but I can tell you, don't worry about the rest of the country judging all Atlanta women to be similiar to these women, we don't. One thing missing, is the much talked about 'southern charm'. I have met a few women that have relocated to So. California from the south and they are the most gracious women I have ever met in my entire life. Going to a dinner party to their home, you are made to feel so comfortable and at home, the women on this show have no southern charm.
Don't worry ladies, we know this is TV.

About Kim, the woman with 'big Poppa' paying her bills....here is my spin on this. He is either married, afiliated with the mob, drug dealer, or maybe there is a federal warrant out for him. Something is not right there, but the standards she is setting for her daughters, will take years of therapy to undo.

I do like the Housewives franchise and will continue to watch, but I know that women from the south are not accurately being portrayed here, nor were they from So. California or NYC. It is just the portrayal of 5 women, not the masses in general.

Eve, Malibu, CA

I agree with Southern Mrs! I personally like the show! First of all, Have seen the previous housewife shows? Bravo picked those women for a certain reason. Then 2nd Atlanta is
* Black (61.4%)
* White Non-Hispanic (31.3%)
* Hispanic (4.5%)
* Other race (2.0%)
* Two or more races (1.2%)
* Asian Indian (0.6%)
* American Indian (0.5%).

So the next time you say the Atlanta is not predominately Black think again!

The Real Housewives of Atlanta is I think over kill...from the two other previous shows...did Bravo TV feel they needed to show affluent African Americans to make it an even playing field since the other 2 shows focused on Caucasian women? But what ever the reason I think I'll sit this one out and tune into other shows. This is overkill if you ask me.

Saw the preview - loved it. I have watched all of them and this one in Atlanta seems the most interesting so far.
I love they are showing that ALL people can have money and lots of it, not just white people.

I am white....my husband is hispanic and while we live in an expensive part of Austin he's sometimes mistaken for the lawn service people, but he's got a good sense of humor and it doesn't bother him.

Only thing I wish is that some of these people profiled (from all of the housewives shows) had more GRACE and not so snotty to others.

I guess they don't show those that are only housewives with major servents, nanny's etc....because well, they sort of lead BORING lives, if you have someone that does everything for you, you can only shop so much...I guess that is where the term Idle Rich comes from.

But I am excited to watch the season, should be VERY interesting!

Atlanta's real housewives...I hardly think so.
Please stop the madness...and NeNe (ShaNeNe)-- OMG, how/where was she found and HOW is she friends with any...well
after stumbling across in late nite over the weekend...that 1 chick is a mistress right? He's also a "brotha", right?...Big Daddy? Only one of them was ok, but she is a workaholic.
I need to work on my "reality" dreams, TV has become reality HELL! Q: Why are we watching people live, instead of "living"?! I don't blame real actors for being upset/pissed! What a mess! Good-Night-Gracie! (...had to have been there)

Pohleeeeeese, for those above who mentioned "diversity" - did you make that comment regarding the O.C. housewives and the NYC housewives, there was not a black woman in site, but I enjoyed both show. **"BRAVO"** to you Bravo network for all the women you've selected for the Atlanta show. It, like the previous shows, will be great viewing. The preview show for Atlanta was really good and my girlfriends and I (black and white) have all said that we cannot wait for upcoming episodes. LOVE IT - LOVE IT - LOVE IT

congrats, Paper

It's really not that serious...you people who are tying your panties all in a knot over the cast members, need lives. Here's the newsflash, they're probably making even more money just doing the show. So, how about you find a way to build your own wealth, and stop worrying about who's appropriate and who's not.

Can anyone tell me the date this will show

If this show was predominately WHITE, there would not be an issue. For all of you on here who did not view all of the other seasons of this show, you haven't seen anything trashy yet. Give the sistahs a chance. No one is perfect. The other housewives from previous seasons (and not all of them were married) were a HOT MESS so don't hate. Watch the previous seasons first before making judgment.

And who cares whether or not they are from Atlanta or suburbia? Sure, it probably would have made more sense for them to pick women in Buckhead or even the Cascade area, but who cares? It is called entertainment.

I just want to point out that although there are undoubtedly better educated and more interesting women of substance to be found in Atlanta, how many of these women are willing to turn their lives upside down to be on a TV show? I am sure that they are very busy creating the life they dreamed of and making the world a better place and they most likely don't have time to allow a camera crew and all of the associated intrusions that being on a show like this involves.

Bravo sends out a casting call and selects the women from the responses. Bravo is looking for an interesting show that we'll talk about the next day around the coffee machine, not an actual representation of the cream of the crop that Atlanta has to offer. So, we end up with a smattering of smuttiness and a bunch that can banter all in the name of being "Real" in Atlanta and we watch and the advertisers continue to buy commercial time thereby making money for Bravo. Voila!

I live in Orange County and have actually seen one of the HW in person. (several times on the night before Easter, we were both scouting goodies for Easter baskets). I can assure you that although some women in the OC do have the lives depicted, that show was not an accurate representation of how most of us live, how we work and how we raise our children. But, it made for a really different show that got good ratings.

Anyhow, I'm looking forward to this show, if only I knew when it was coming on. I've been teased by the preview, but does anyone know the actual start date?