After LOGO basically ripped off Bravo's trashy version of reality with The A List, the network that Andy Cohen helped build has found a way to one-up the feldgling network. According to nymag.com, Cohen, who was just promoted to executive vice president of the network is close to giving the green light to the first ever gay reality series that will feature an ensemble cast.
Cohen has yet to confirm the news, but yesterday, Access Hollywood posted a lengthy "Fact vs. Fiction" rundown. Initially the show was to be called From the Bottom to the Top (insert anal sex joke here), but it is alleged the show may go with the title The Plastics — the group of shallow girls most known from one of my favorite movies growing up Mean Girls. Access Hollywood's Jeremy Blacklow adds that there are more men in the cast than was originally reported by the Daily News: Christopher Fawcett, underwear model and boyfriend of interior decorator Jordan Carlyle, is in talks to be in the full-time cast. And John Paul Fleming, a former Jil Sander employee who runs with the gang, is being considered as a seventh player. So far signed on to the series are Mark Silver, Kenneth Gillett, Joey Giuntoli, and Kristopher Haigh.
Intel hears that, compared to the cast of the Logo show The A-List, these guys will make off decently well if the show ever gets made. The cast of the former show made something like $2,000 for the whole season of the show, while the Plastics are negotiating for up to something like $10,000 up front. Talk about cheap asses over at LOGO. From what we've heard, that will not include a potential $1,000 bonus per episode depending on ratings. If the show does well and it's picked up for a second and third season, the castmembers will be able to negotiate their pay raises. To put that into context, Real Housewives cast members reportedly start out somewhere in the $3,000-an-episode range. here is what Cohen had to say about the alleged salary negotiations: "If I had a dollar for every gay man we've put on tape during my six years at Bravo, I would be a very rich man. None of this is true. What is true is that we are always casting, and this group of friends is one of the many we have on a development reel."
If this show is less scripted than The A List I'll definitely check it out. But if it's going to be less dramatic I won't be watching for long. The reason why most of us watch reality TV is for the crazy the Bravolebrities bring to shows like The Real Housewives of New York, New Jersey, and Atlanta. I also wonder how come it took Bravo this long to greenlight a gay reality show? Bravo is gayer than LOGO with its content, so I would have expected them to beat that other network to the punch years ago.
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