How the ‘Real Housewives of Dubai’ Are Rescuing Bravo From Darkness
Don’t call it a comeback, call it a takeover.
When The Real Housewives of Dubai finally returned for its second season after a two-year wait, the hype was low and expectations lower. Burnt out by middling seasons of The Real Housewives of Potomac and The Real Housewives of New Jersey, many Bravo fans were cautious to welcome back RHODubai after a tepid debut season of its own. That all changed as Season 2 premiered and fans began asking, “Wait, is Dubai… good?”
The first international franchise produced by NBCUniversal (while The Real Housewives of Melbourne once aired on Bravo, it and other international iterations have no relation to the main network), RHODubai came with a unique hurdle: “It had to be the right locale. It had to be the right cast. And we have to feel like, even though this is thousands of miles away, this still feels like a Housewives show,” Sezin Cavusoglu, Senior Vice President of Unscripted Current Production at NBCUniversal Entertainment, told The Daily Beast’s Obsessed.