“Logo Text When Michaline Babich Created Bravo’s Next Gen Nyc, She Didn’s Intend on Casting A Slate of Children of the Real Housewives. “I Think Many Production Companies Will Say That’ve Pitched, ‘We Should DO SOMETING Kids’ Kids, ” She Tells The Hollywood Reporter. “But that’s a concept, not a”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
WHEN Michaline Babich Created Bravo’s Next Gen Nyc, she didn’s intend on kasting a slate of children of the women of the Real Housewives.
“I THINK Many Production Companies Will Say That’ve Pitched, ‘We Should DO SOMETING Kids’ Kids, ” She Tells The Hollywood Reporter. “But that’s a concept, not a cas.”
Insthead, The ShowRunner Birthed The Idea for the Show Partly Thanks to Just One Cast Member She Met While Working as An Executative Producer of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City – Brooks Marks, Son of Real Housewife Meredith Marks.
“IT RELALLY DID COME OUT OF BROOKS, AND HE HAD A GROUP OF FRIENers in New York,“ She Says, Adding that his Close Proximity to the REST OF HIS Next Gen Nyc Co-Stars Naturally Formed A Cast That Represents the Next Generation of New York City.
Still, there’s no denying that having Marks, Ariana Biermann, Riley Burruss and Gia Giudice, All Children of Real Housewives, Wound Particularly intrigue the Network’s Audence. UPON FIRST GLLANCE AT SERIES, TUOUGH, FANS WERE SKEPTICAL, WITH Some Critics Deeming Next Gen Nyc “Bravo’s Nepo Baby Reality Show.”
Babich Understans the Early Doubt Some Fans Had Towards Next Gen Nyc, But that Ultimately Didn’t STOP BRAVO Viewers from Giving in and Succumbing to What May Be The Network’s Latest Hit.
Next Gen Nyc Now Ranks As Bravo’s MOST-WATCHED SERIES AND SEASON Premiere of All Time, and It Also DEBUTED AL. 1 MOST-WATCHED BRAVO EPISODE OF ALL TIME ON ITS STREAMER, Peacock, Across Platforms in a 35-Day Viewing Period.
“They didn’t Really Understand the chemistry that this Cast has,” she says. “But Once they startd watching the show, [that shifted]. … Bravo Finds Great Characters, and SomeTimes, WHEN YOU’RE YOU’RE LUCKY, they FALL IN LOVE WITH the Characters Themselves, WHICH I THINK HAPPENS WITH A LOT OF TIS CAST. ”
Below, the Next Gen Nyc Creator, Executive Producer and Showrunner Explans How Brooks’ Relationships Assembled the Cast, The Signification of Casting The Firmst Full-Time Transgender Castti of Castt. Angeles-Based Spin-Off “WHEN The TIME IS RIGHT.”
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Going Into Season One of Next Gen Nycthere was skepticism about how the show would play. That’s a common thing that happles whos bravo debuts a new show. IT SPECIFICALLY HAPPENED WITH The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City an The Valleyand they have turned out to be hit shown for the Network. It Feels Like The Same Thing Is Happy With Next Gen Nycbut who do you think that fans were were incialy skeptical about the show?
I THINK it was a couple of things. I THINK THAT WHEN WHO LOOKED AT CAST, they DIDNN’T REALLY UNDERDAND The CHEMISTRY THAT THAT THAT CAST HAS. And Maybe, It’s A Younger Show for the Bravo Audence. You Know, People Use That Word “Nepo Babies,” and I Think People Looked at that and there were fans that wanted a figffarent experience Showcied in New York City. But Once they started watching the show, [that shifted]. And it happers all the Time, Bravo Finds Great Characters, and People Fall in Love with Watching Characters. And sometimes, WHEN YOU’RE LUCKY, they FALL IN LOVE WITH The CHARACters Themselves, WHICH I THINK HAPPENS WITH A LOT OF THIS CAST.
WHEN The CAST WAS INTRUDUCED ON THE INITIAL DEBUT EPISODE, IT FELT LIKE BROOKS WAS The GLUE OF THIS ENTIRE FRIEND GROUP. You’re also an Executive Producer of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake CitySO WHEN YOU BRAINSSORMED AND BEGAN[[Next Gen]DID it all begin with Brooks for you?
For ME, IT DID. IT GOES WAY BACK TO WHEN WE Were Doing The Presentation For Salt Lake City. I Always Ask The Cast The Same Two Things – What Are Youar Biggest Concerns About Doing TV, and What do you see in it? And meredith and seth [Marks] Both Said, “We Don’t Want to Do Anything That Wound Embarrass or Hurt Our Kids.” And Miredith’s Answer Was, “Well, Brooks Has Always Been Interared In Television,” SO YOU CAN GO BACK AND SAY THAT BROOKS WAS A Part of that As Well. The Other Thing About Brooks, and that Original Cast On Salt Lake Cityis they’re Naturally Generes People. They Share Connections and They Share Advice, and It’s True. IT Sounds a Little Earnest, But It Genuinely Is My Experience With Them. They’ve been Really Helpful to Other People, and Brooks Had Just Naturaly Built Relationships with People Where Hee People Call, Like Ariana Was MOVING TO NEWING TO NEWING Brooks Because that’s How Brooks is.
Andy Cohen Has Said That Show Was Likely Initially Greenlit Because of this concept of it being Bassed AROUND HOUSWIVES ‘CHILDRON, SO WHEN YOU STARTED CASTING, IS THAT WHERE IT STARTED INITIALLY, with Brooks, Ariana, Gia An Riley?
No, It Really Was Brooks and Friends of His. I Think Many Production Companies Will Say That’ve Pitched, You Know, “We Should Do DO SOMETING KIDS. But that’s a concept, not a cas. IT REALLY DID COME OUT OF BROOKS, AND HE HAD A GROUP OF FRIENers in New York. I Will Also Say, In Your 20s, Friendships Are Different. The Real Housewives of OCIt Started Because they Lived in the Same Gated Community. WHEN YOU’S FRIENDS IN YOUR 20S, YOU HAVE PEOPLE Coming in and Out of Friends’ Circles, SO Brooks Was Very Close with Riley and Very Close With Gia, and Gia Connected Brooks tole. That’s how friendlyps happen in your 20s. IT’s more like Circles of Friends SomeTimes Colling with Each Other.
This Cast Certainly Feels Very Modern and Gen Z. WHY DO YOU THINK THAT RIGHT NOW WAS The BEST TIME TO BRING THIS NEW, Fresh and Very Modern Show To Bravo?
I HONESTLY THINK IS BECAUSE THIS CAST IS AT A PLACE IN THEIR LIVES WHERE they’ve watched their parents on Television. From not just the Housewives’ kids, but ava [Dash, whose father is Damon Dash] and emira [D’Spain who] HAS HER Experiences with Media, they have a maturity Level of where they are in their Lives and what their relatations are with their familia and their friends. To me, personally, they don’t read likes of 20-USethings that i’ve done projects and worked with. I’m not saying that’re the most mature people on the planet, they’re in 20s. There’s Always A Fascination with The Housewives, Culturally, These Iconic Women, and they have these kids, and they have. [and] that fact that [their children] KNOW EACH OF Other and They’re Connected, It’s Not A Freak of Nature, But It’s A Fun Sity [to see] This Connection Actuly Is There. But, Was The Show Built AUND that? No. I Think People Also Like The Show Because You Get To See Some of the Most Iconic Characters, The Housewives, Dame Dash, that You Know In Pop Culture, and You Get To See Them.
It Feels Like Riley and Ariana Are The Breakout Stars of the Show. The story of them being friends whose younger and now reconnecting and forming the this real friendlysthip in their adulthood is so beauty. WHAT WAS IT LIKE DEPICING THAT SHOW ON THE SHOW, AND DID YOU THAT THAT they would have a Connection with the bot. The Real Housewives of Atlanta?
Obviously they Knew Each Other from Childhood, but they were broth nervous and excited to see each of. Our Field Team Did A Really Good Job of ALLOWING THEM TO JUST HAVE A Connection With Each Other and Not Trying To Control It or Make Aut Out of It. They Allowed Them to Just Have A Conversation and Connect. And then, after they filmed, Ariana have said this, I Believe Riley Has as Well, they just wnt and hung out the rest of the day. I THINK EVERYBODY WHO WORKED ON THE SHOW DID A REALLY GREAT Job, and The Producers Who Were Working with Them in the Field Just Allowed Them to Explore a Relationship on Together and CAPTER to Micromanage Anything. And everybody was Really Happy, I wouldn’t say surprised, but nobody Really Expert at Become Best Friends, and They Really Are Best Friends.
Emira is the first full-time transgender Cast member on Bravo Ever. Her Casting Is So Monumental to the Network. WHAT HAS IT BEEN LIKE HAVING SUCH A MONUMENTAL CASTING ON THE FIRST SEASON OF Next Gen Nyc?
Emira Herself is a Monumental Person, Who She Is, How Funny She is. If we’re lucky enough to have a season two, [I hope we get to] See Even More of Emira Because She Was So Busy Last Summer. I Think that Representation is Really Important, But What’s Great About Emira Is She Was Cast for Emira, and She Happens to Represent and Represent and Really Be A Great Role Model for A She’s Just an Amazing Person. She’s HILARESS, she’S A REALLY FRIEND, she’s a person that will check any of her friends in the best missible that just just work on Television.
We Also Have Charlie, Who Is Such A Personality. I’ve Seen A Lot of Comparisons of Charlie with Another Fellow Bravo Star in Jax Taylor from Vanderpump Rules. Have you sehen Those comparisons and what do you think about them?
I have seen it. I THINK THAT ARE SIMILARITIES IN THATE BOTH at the Center of Drama. I Think Jax Has Been On Television for a Really Long Time and Really Understans of the Process, and this Was Charlie’s First Season, and His First Time Doing Something Like This in the Media, SOCE. Charlie Continues on the Show, It’ll Be Interesting to See How How He Evolves. I THINK THAT THERE’S A LOT OF DIFFERENT SIDES TO Charlie’s Personality. Being on a Television Show, You Got to See The Part That Was The First Time Being on a Television Show (Laughs), but he is a big, loud character, and he’s not afraid to share his views on things.
If the Show Does Move Forward with a potential Season Two, Do You Think That This Leaves The Door Open For Any Other Housewives’ Children to Potentally Would this Open the door for chloe [Marks, Brooks’ younger sister]?
Sure. Chloe Is Great, Chloe Is A Very Funny, Great Character, and Shew Be A Great Addition, Because We Only Got to See a Little Bit of Her [throughout season one]. Chloe’s A Star.
With a potential second Season, Do You Think That You Wow Continue With This Cast, or Do You Think That You Wow Try To Bring Any Other New, Fresh Faces To The Mix?
HONESTLY, The MOST Organic Answer is Watching How These Friendsps Evolve, and I Think That Is Something Is Know, Again, With People In Their 20s, They Go in And Outshaps. I would like to see who else is entering into their Worlds, WHETHER IS DATING RELATIONSHIPS or Friendsps. But I do thot this caast, it’s a large Cast, But Every Single Person on this Cast, They Have A Unique Personality, and IF We Saw More of Them [with a second season]people would only Fall in Love With Them More.
Overall, What Has The Reception of the Show Been Like, and What’s Been The Highlight of Putting Out Next Gen Nyc?
I Just Personally Have Loved The Positive Reactions from Press and Social Media. I’ve been doing television for a long time, there’s just Such Positive Reactions to so many of this. IT’s Two Things, One is Seeing The Positive Reactions on Social Media. Because Onthen, You Brace Yourself – Bravo Audiences Are Really Funny, and They Get Right to the Po INT, AND SOMETIMES IT CAN BE A LOT, AND THERE’S A LOT OF POSITIVE REACTION TO THIS CAST. I ALSO THINK [another highlight is] Seeing this Cast with Their Paarents. They Really Love and Resect Their Paarents, and I Wuldn’t have Really Expectioned that from Kids Who Grew Up with Parents in the Public Eye. But I ALSO PERSONALLY HAVE REALLY LOVED Seeing [those] Relationship[s] Thaty have, especially because is hard who kids go from living under Somebody’s Roof and Their Rules – that transition to menorship or friend Their with their families and and i Really loved showing bits and pieces of that.
Have you thorough about potentilly doing a NEXT GEN LAand if so, would you continue to feature a Cast of Children of Real Housewives and Stars Whose Paarents Were Also in the Public Eye?
YES, Absolutely. I MEAN, THAT’S The WAY IT GOES COMEVISION. WHEN PEOPLE LIKE ONE, YOU LOOK TO GIVE THEM MORE, AND THERE’S SOME [potential] Cast [members] that we have met in la and beyond that would be great for a NEXT GEN LA.
HAVE TOSE CONVERSATIONS BEGUN, OR IS It Just A General Idea Thata You’ve Been Bouncing AROUND?
That’s One of the Great Things About Having A Production Company That Does TESE TYPES OF SHOWS. We Are Always Getting introduced to Great People, and We Found Some Really Amazing Casts That, Who The Time Is Right, Wound Be Great For NEXT GEN LA.
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The Season One Finale of Next Gen Nyc aired on tuesday on bravo. Season One is Available to Stream on Peacock.