Casting for "The Real Housewives of D.C." may prove harder than for the other shows in the franchise because of the wariness of powerful women in the city to risk their reputations, the Associated Press reports. "But it’s unlikely that a working woman here is going to want to do this.

In Washington, reputation is everything. Whatever you do is a reflection on your job," Catherine Merrill Williams, publisher of Washingtonian magazine, tells the news service.

 –Aimee Picchi