Andy Cohen, Mike Tyson & Melissa Gorga
on the set of WWHL 7/8/2012
Photo courtesy of BravoTV.com

Back refreshed from his holiday break, Andy Cohen returned to the clubhouse this week and Bravo returned to 4 and a bit nights of original programming and therefore a lot more TV to report on at Bravo Ratings. Last night also saw the 11^th episode of this season’s RHoNJ, tonight; the 6^th of RHoNY and the 4^th of Miss Advised. Tuesday, sees the 1^st episode of the RHoC reunion followed by Pregnant in Heels 9^th episode and therefore surpassing its 8 episode long 1^st season. After their break last week, Million Dollar Listing LA and Around the World in 80 Plates both return to Bravo’s schedules. So Sunday through Wednesday are back to full strength programming.

In Cohen’s clubhouse, Iron Mike and MeGo kicked off the week, Monday Sonja Morgan joins the Scissor Sisters and Tuesday, Heather Dubrow makes her 2nd clubhouse appearance. On Wednesday, Curtis Stone & Cat Cora appear, ahead of next week’s 80 Plates finale.

Thursday is where ‘the bit’ we mentioned above, comes in. With Kathy ending last week, Bravo are trotting out one of her stand up specials; Whores in Crutches, which originally aired in November 2010. Back then it scored stellar ratings of 1,039,000 and 0.50 in the 18-48 demo; and those ratings are something she’s not achieved since. Bravo haven’t updated their website yet with any guests for Andy’s show Thursday and with no significant lead-in to boost his audience it’s possible he might be taking three day weekends over the remainder of the summer.

In our ratings projections, below, we don’t foresee any wild swings in ratings. This week Bravo should see similar ratings to the week of June 24 through June 28, although we’re sure fans of Melisa Gorga’s will be hoping that her WWHL appearance will top Teresa’s on June 17th. Still the question remains what to do about Miss Advised. In July last year, Bravo looked at the dismal ratings for Platinum Hit and unceremoniously dumped it to Friday nights. We don’t think anything that severe will happen, but do know that Andy Cohan is agitated about the poor lead-in it’s giving his Tuesday WWHL and so this might be the last week where Miss Advised airs at 10pm. Watch for it and RHoNY to swap places before the month is out. Speaking of RHoNY, with the ladies off to London, Bravo are surely hoping that its ratings climb but we think that they’ve found their level and will remain between 1.3-1.5m for the next few weeks. Unless something really dramatic happens (St Barts?), can’t see them approaching 2m for the remainder of this 5^th season.

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Here are our estimates for the week ahead: