TLC Is Knocking Off The Housewives

Watercooler

By Nads | | 11:58 am | 3 Comments
Posted in: Featured, Watercooler

debutantes1

TLC has ordered their own version of Housewives. They’ve headed down south for the Bama Belles. I love that everyone is trying to ride the Housewives wave. Variety reports (about the cast), “The “Bama Belles” include radio personality/real estate developer and mother Amie Pollard, 39; ex-beauty queen Melissa McLaney, 35; beautician Jana Roberts, 28; Internet entrepreneur and New York transplant Val Tignini, 26; and Army reservist Dakota Redding, 24″

It looks like the cast is much younger than our fabu women on Bravo, but my question is, do they pack the same punch? And on another note, didn’t the old SoapNet do Southern Belles already? I know that was set in Louisiana, but it’s still the same idea.

Bama Belles airs on December 5th at 10PM on TLC.


About

Although comedy is her profession, Nadine has accomplished a lot in her young age. She is a national champion black belt, a world-class soccer player, and an avid snowboarder. She started playing soccer at the age of 4, and continued playing through college where she majored in Biology, but quickly realized her destiny was to tell jokes, not to wear a lab coat. So she decided to be funny while finishing her Bachelors Degree in biology and continued on to get her M.B.A. Nadine’s comedy style is much like her athleticism, fearless. She’s made her way up the comedy ladder very quickly, and has become a club favorite at many of the country’s top comedy clubs, including the Improv chain. Performing in the Boston Comedy Festival and being noted as the “one of the youngest and brightest up and comers” and traveling to the Middle East to entertain the troops are just a few of her notable accomplishments. These days Nadine splits time between the stage, a radio studio, her computer blogging, and a television studio. Nadine’s TV, Radio, Writing credits include: national commercials, talking head roles on E! Entertainment, Showtime’s Hot Tamales Live, The Skinny: Fat Free News, The Sunny Side of The Truth: Real World Hollywood, TVgasm, Zazreport, Daddy’s Girls, Jerseylicious, celebrity interviews on Mania TV, a weekly half-hour television show that syndicates to colleges across the country for National Lampoon and a nightly radio show on XM Satellite Radio.

3 Comments

  1. 1
    sarcasatire sarcasatire
    Posted November 12, 2010 at 1:00 pm

    There are so many Housewives shows, I can’t keep up! I try to watch them all, the Bravo shows (two are currently running), Footbal Wives, Rock Star Wives, the only one I won’t watch is Dr. Phil’s Housewives, because in between the ladies’ meanderings and cattiness, he butts in to try and make them better people. (unacceptable behavior)

    I’m wondering where the TLC show was shot and if none of the cast or the producers had any inside track to urban slang. Because ‘Bama’ is not something people should refer to themselves as. It means, ‘not-with-it’, out of style, uncool, and down right ‘country.’ Or, dare we assume the producers are smarter than we think?

  2. 2
    Posted November 12, 2010 at 7:52 pm

    @Sarcas: We don’t like Dr. Phil or mentally balanced people.

  3. 3
    sarcasatire sarcasatire
    Posted November 15, 2010 at 6:30 am

    @Matt: I know, right! How dare someone think they can parade the sane around for our entertainment. I’d rather watch paint dry.

Post a Comment

Your email is never published nor shared. Required fields are marked *

*
*

You may use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

Human Verification: In order to verify that you are a human and not a spam bot, please enter the answer into the following box below based on the instructions contained in the graphic.