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- 0:03Speaker 1: Welcome to Reality with the King.
- 0:05Speaker 2: It's me Carlos King, the King of Reality TV and
- 0:10Speaker 2: one of the most sought after executive producers in reality
- 0:14Speaker 2: television with over ten years of production experience. Twice a
- 0:19Speaker 2: week on Reality with the King, we'll sit down with
- 0:22Speaker 2: my friends across the entertainment industry, recap our favorite reality
- 0:28Speaker 2: shows and revisit unforgettable moments that we are still talking
- 0:32Speaker 2: and tweeting about. Hey, rain drops. So look, we got
- 0:40Speaker 2: a very juicy, shady episode today because you guys were
- 0:48Speaker 2: shading me on Twitter dot com.
- 0:51Speaker 1: Child.
- 0:52Speaker 2: I mean, I can't even post my opinion or congratulations
- 0:57Speaker 2: to another franchise about ratings for you guys start coming
- 1:01Speaker 2: from me, like what did I do? This episode is
- 1:04Speaker 2: all about the ratings war that I haven't seen on
- 1:09Speaker 2: social media as relates to the Real Housewives of Atlanta
- 1:13Speaker 2: versus Belly Hills. At the end of the day, what
- 1:17Speaker 2: I've noticed is it's sort of like the beehive versus
- 1:21Speaker 2: the Navy. Okay, so the Beehive are the Atlanta Housewives
- 1:25Speaker 2: and the Navy are the Beverly Hills Housewives. You guys
- 1:29Speaker 2: argue upper storm about these ratings, but I'm here to
- 1:33Speaker 2: tell you no one cares. You are literally fighting over
- 1:36Speaker 2: something that as an industry expert, these networks don't care
- 1:42Speaker 2: as much as you do, and I'm here to tell
- 1:46Speaker 2: you why.
- 1:47Speaker 1: Okay, let's get started.
- 1:48Speaker 2: It is very old school to care about same day ratings.
- 1:54Speaker 2: No one gives a fuck about that anymore, guys, but
- 1:57Speaker 2: you do. We live in a day and age each
- 2:00Speaker 2: where we have everything at our disposal. We have social media,
- 2:05Speaker 2: we have concerts, not that we're able to go outside.
- 2:09Speaker 1: We have family, we have day brunches.
- 2:12Speaker 2: Honey, we have so much more to do nowadays that
- 2:15Speaker 2: gone are the days where you literally sit at home
- 2:20Speaker 2: and watch TV at eight o'clock on a Sunday or,
- 2:23Speaker 2: in this case for belly Hills, on a Wednesday. So
- 2:27Speaker 2: because of that, networks don't care anymore about same day
- 2:32Speaker 2: ratings because the world has changed.
- 2:34Speaker 1: But guess who haven't change?
- 2:36Speaker 2: You fan bases, y'all still argue up and down about
- 2:40Speaker 2: reaching one million views, like, no one gives a shit
- 2:44Speaker 2: about reaching one million views the same day. When I
- 2:50Speaker 2: was producing The Real Housewives of Atlanta, season six was
- 2:54Speaker 2: the highest rated season because we got same day audience
- 2:57Speaker 2: of four million people. Oh that was back in twenty twelve.
- 3:02Speaker 2: This is twenty and twenty two. So what Networth cares about,
- 3:06Speaker 2: guys is live plus three.
- 3:10Speaker 1: Let me tell you what that means.
- 3:11Speaker 2: That means the same day plus three days my loves okay,
- 3:17Speaker 2: So think about it this way. When Atlanta Housewives come
- 3:21Speaker 2: on Sunday, they care about Sunday, Monday, Tuesday.
- 3:27Speaker 1: Honey, and even Wednesday.
- 3:29Speaker 2: When Beverly Hills come on Wednesday, they care about Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
- 3:34Speaker 2: and even Saturday. So they're not caring about how many
- 3:39Speaker 2: millions one show got the same day.
- 3:41Speaker 1: No one cares about that.
- 3:43Speaker 2: So when I congratulated Beverly Hills for having I think
- 3:47Speaker 2: it was one point one five million viewers, y'all read me,
- 3:51Speaker 2: tried to shade me, and.
- 3:53Speaker 1: Y'all know I can handle it because I don't give
- 3:54Speaker 1: a shit.
- 3:55Speaker 2: But y'all were so mad at me for congratulating Belly
- 3:59Speaker 2: Hills that y'all had the audacity to come for me
- 4:04Speaker 2: and my shows, the Love and Marriage Franchise, and y'all
- 4:08Speaker 2: talked about how I should worry about my ratings.
- 4:12Speaker 1: Oh no, boo, boo, let's not go there.
- 4:16Speaker 2: So look, I'm about to school y'all I'm about to
- 4:18Speaker 2: give y'all a crash course on ratings.
- 4:21Speaker 1: Just called me doctor Carlos Luther King Jr.
- 4:25Speaker 2: Okay, and I got my understudy, Coretta Scott.
- 4:31Speaker 3: Oh baby, I'm more like. I'm more like Bernie's their daughter. Okay,
- 4:39Speaker 3: Bernie's awesome.
- 4:43Speaker 2: Yes, Huddie back Okay, that's what this a distantoneod is
- 4:48Speaker 2: called back baka.
- 4:50Speaker 1: So look, Jasmine, they're trying to me. Baby.
- 4:53Speaker 4: They were eating you up a little bit. They were
- 4:56Speaker 4: eating you.
- 4:56Speaker 1: Up a little bit.
- 4:57Speaker 3: Yes, I think I mean you made some great points though, right, Like,
- 5:01Speaker 3: the networks don't really care about same day because they
- 5:04Speaker 3: know people are gonna stream.
- 5:06Speaker 4: We're gonna go on our apps.
- 5:07Speaker 3: We're gonna go on their own app, Discovery plus the
- 5:10Speaker 3: Bravo app.
- 5:10Speaker 4: We're gonna do all of that.
- 5:11Speaker 3: Peacock right to go and watch the shows if we
- 5:15Speaker 3: can't catch them on Sundays. So those same day ratings
- 5:19Speaker 3: really don't mean anything.
- 5:20Speaker 1: No, they don't mean a thing.
- 5:21Speaker 2: And listen, you know how Kim Zoziak said, the ring
- 5:24Speaker 2: don't mean a thing. I'm going to create a song
- 5:26Speaker 2: called the ratings Don't mean a thing, and I'm going
- 5:29Speaker 2: to give it to Beyonce.
- 5:30Speaker 4: Oh beat you put on it, she might jump on
- 5:33Speaker 4: the track.
- 5:34Speaker 2: Okay, So look, I think she'll love it. So look
- 5:41Speaker 2: at the end of the day, y'all try to get
- 5:44Speaker 2: on Carrie Hillston's five G network and tell me, are
- 5:49Speaker 2: you bringing up.
- 5:50Speaker 3: Kerry Hilton because you just brought up Beyonce. That's shady.
- 5:54Speaker 3: You know what you deserved it. You deserved what they
- 5:57Speaker 3: did to you until they you deserved it.
- 5:59Speaker 2: No, no, no, Because Carrie Hillton alleged during COVID or
- 6:05Speaker 2: the pandemic, I should say that COVID was started because
- 6:08Speaker 2: of the five G towers.
- 6:10Speaker 1: So we all have theories.
- 6:11Speaker 2: So look, when it comes to own, own is not
- 6:15Speaker 2: seen in as many households as Bravo.
- 6:19Speaker 1: Right.
- 6:20Speaker 2: So you know when you guys go to the hotel,
- 6:23Speaker 2: the motel, the holiday and say why why yes, okay,
- 6:29Speaker 2: shout out to Ludacris anyways, or it was that Chinky
- 6:32Speaker 2: I think it was.
- 6:33Speaker 4: Chinky holiday in.
- 6:36Speaker 1: Lula christ was on the remixed with Snoop Dogg.
- 6:37Speaker 2: Okay, So when you're staying at the Four Seasons, you
- 6:42Speaker 2: may get owned.
- 6:46Speaker 1: Right hotels?
- 6:49Speaker 4: What they not get on.
- 6:50Speaker 1: At you know, allegedly, I would say Riddan booth in.
- 6:57Speaker 3: Not the Red Room super you're not getting on. I
- 7:00Speaker 3: don't know if you're gonna get Bravo in either though.
- 7:04Speaker 1: Oh you're definitely getting Bravo. The red roof in.
- 7:06Speaker 2: Absolutely you're getting Bravo. You're getting VH one BT for sure.
- 7:12Speaker 3: Are those like the basic basic basic cable packages versus
- 7:17Speaker 3: a premium package?
- 7:18Speaker 1: Exactly.
- 7:20Speaker 2: We don't have the same availability in households as our counterparts.
- 7:26Speaker 2: So based on that formula, Love and Marriage is the
- 7:31Speaker 2: most watched show on own and if you go on
- 7:34Speaker 2: my Instagram or Twitter you'll see that. Because I ain't
- 7:38Speaker 2: got to laugh it's in black and white. Love and
- 7:41Speaker 2: Marriage DC is doing very well considering it's a brand
- 7:45Speaker 2: new series, it's a brand new franchise. And I know
- 7:48Speaker 2: you guys want to compare Potomac ratings to Love and
- 7:52Speaker 2: Marriage DC because Monique Samuel's left, not fired, she left
- 7:57Speaker 2: Potomac to join Love and Marriage DC, so you guys
- 8:01Speaker 2: want to shave her. There's this Twitter page that posts
- 8:05Speaker 2: only Brava ratings, and all of a sudden, y'all post
- 8:08Speaker 2: in Love and Marriage DC ratings as if it's real comparison.
- 8:12Speaker 1: No, it's shady. It's shady.
- 8:14Speaker 2: So look, I'm the one who taught the Atlanta Girls
- 8:18Speaker 2: how to be shady, so you can't beat me when
- 8:21Speaker 2: it comes to that game, baby, period.
- 8:23Speaker 3: Now, let me ask you a question, because I think
- 8:26Speaker 3: the other side, right is they're also comparing shows that
- 8:30Speaker 3: have been on for such a long time.
- 8:33Speaker 4: You can't compare how.
- 8:34Speaker 3: Long has the Love and Marriage franchise been a thing
- 8:38Speaker 3: versus how long has have The Real Housewives been on air?
- 8:41Speaker 4: It's not really a good.
- 8:42Speaker 2: Comparison, right, No, The Real Housewives have been on for
- 8:45Speaker 2: like seventeen eighteen years.
- 8:47Speaker 4: Yeah, wow that long?
- 8:49Speaker 1: Yes?
- 8:50Speaker 2: Ohc it's been like seventeen eighteen years. Love and Marriage
- 8:55Speaker 2: Huntsville has been on for four years, So how can
- 8:58Speaker 2: compare a eighteen years to four years? The Real Housewives
- 9:03Speaker 2: is cemented in pop culture.
- 9:05Speaker 1: It is a phenomenon.
- 9:07Speaker 2: It has a huge fan base, and I was so
- 9:11Speaker 2: blessed and honored to be a part of that.
- 9:14Speaker 1: I made The Real house.
- 9:15Speaker 2: Was of Atlanta season six the highest rated season or
- 9:20Speaker 2: series if you want to go there, guys, ever in
- 9:23Speaker 2: Bravo history, and it.
- 9:25Speaker 3: Took six seasons for you to do that. Because I
- 9:27Speaker 3: guarantee their ratings in season one weren't at well, what
- 9:32Speaker 3: was it four million at its height? That wasn't They
- 9:34Speaker 3: weren't getting those ratings in season one.
- 9:35Speaker 2: Now season one they cracked like six hundred seven hundred thousand,
- 9:41Speaker 2: and I think a million maybe during the reunion, and
- 9:44Speaker 2: then six seasons later they cracked like four point five
- 9:48Speaker 2: four point six million.
- 9:49Speaker 1: So it takes time for an audience to grow.
- 9:52Speaker 2: This black man created a franchise and that should be celebrated.
- 9:57Speaker 1: So while you kind of shade me, is never going to.
- 10:00Speaker 2: Work because I created something that is number one on
- 10:04Speaker 2: a network that was created by a woman who I
- 10:07Speaker 2: love and a mayer to this day. So you can't
- 10:10Speaker 2: shade us, baby, And at the end of the day,
- 10:12Speaker 2: I wasn't shading the Atlanta Girls. I will never and
- 10:15Speaker 2: listen to me loud and clear, I will never shade
- 10:19Speaker 2: Atlanta Housewives. I'm not that producer who leaves the show
- 10:22Speaker 2: and wants to see it fail.
- 10:25Speaker 1: I was never that.
- 10:26Speaker 2: So much so what y'all don't know, And Jasmine, this
- 10:30Speaker 2: would be an exclusive if I wanted the Atlanta Housewives
- 10:34Speaker 2: to fail, why do I still talk to some of
- 10:36Speaker 2: the housewives and give them advice?
- 10:39Speaker 1: On how to make a scene great. Oh, y'tta know that? Huh? Oh? Okay,
- 10:43Speaker 1: got it?
- 10:44Speaker 3: Are you being paid as a consulting producer when you
- 10:47Speaker 3: do this?
- 10:48Speaker 2: No, because they're my friends. They're my friends. I told
- 10:52Speaker 2: when I left after season nine and I saw how
- 10:55Speaker 2: the show wasn't what I thought it would be. I said,
- 10:59Speaker 2: at the end end of the day, my name will
- 11:02Speaker 2: always be a part of this show, and I wanted
- 11:04Speaker 2: to win because it's my legacy. I never want my
- 11:08Speaker 2: legacy to be tarnish. I'm not that guy. I want
- 11:12Speaker 2: the show to win. And I remember when I had
- 11:15Speaker 2: a conversation with the housewives during season nine. I said
- 11:20Speaker 2: to them, it is a privilege that we as black
- 11:23Speaker 2: people have the number one show on Bravo, and if
- 11:27Speaker 2: you ladies do not step it up and stop being comfortable,
- 11:32Speaker 2: you are going to lose that spot.
- 11:37Speaker 1: You're going to lose it.
- 11:38Speaker 2: So now that we see Beverly Hills Housewives as number one,
- 11:42Speaker 2: I don't take any pride in that.
- 11:45Speaker 1: I warned them.
- 11:46Speaker 2: I had this conversation with them, and you can ask
- 11:49Speaker 2: all of them if it's true or not.
- 11:52Speaker 1: I did because I.
- 11:53Speaker 2: Knew that if you remain comfortable this may be your fate.
- 11:58Speaker 2: So it saddens me honestly that they're no longer number one,
- 12:02Speaker 2: and at the end of the day, Atlanta can't get
- 12:05Speaker 2: back to where it was, but it starts with people
- 12:10Speaker 2: who are invested in the show.
- 12:12Speaker 4: Yeah. I think that's a great point that you make.
- 12:15Speaker 3: I will say though, you know, if I'm coming from
- 12:19Speaker 3: a viewers perspective or somebody on Twitter who wants to
- 12:23Speaker 3: read you, it's it's a good comparison to make, right,
- 12:27Speaker 3: because you said it yourself. Your legacy is with Real
- 12:30Speaker 3: Housewives of Atlanta. When people think of that franchise and
- 12:34Speaker 3: it's golden years, they do think of you being heavily attached,
- 12:36Speaker 3: being the producer, and so it's an easy comparison for
- 12:40Speaker 3: them to make between Real Housewives of Atlanta and the
- 12:43Speaker 3: Love and Marriage franchise because this is also something that
- 12:46Speaker 3: you created and started.
- 12:48Speaker 4: Right.
- 12:49Speaker 3: I think with Beverly Hills, what they missed is when
- 12:51Speaker 3: you did tweet about them being like the number one
- 12:54Speaker 3: franchise or the highest rate it you were coming from
- 12:57Speaker 3: a fans perspective, you weren't coming right. You prod you
- 13:01Speaker 3: weren't shading the Real Housewives of Atlanta. You really just
- 13:03Speaker 3: stated the fact, and you were celebratory because you are
- 13:06Speaker 3: a fan of the show period.
- 13:09Speaker 2: I mean, that's that's that's what it is. I'm a
- 13:12Speaker 2: fan of the show. And listen, what's interesting is, at
- 13:15Speaker 2: the end of the day, Look, let's be real, let's
- 13:17Speaker 2: talk about the same day rating. So now that I
- 13:19Speaker 2: schooled you guys that the networks don't care about same day,
- 13:23Speaker 2: y'all do, so y'all can stop that little argument.
- 13:25Speaker 1: But let's talk about it.
- 13:26Speaker 2: It is my fundamental belief that at the end of
- 13:28Speaker 2: the day, Atlanta Housewives at.
- 13:31Speaker 1: One point was must see TV.
- 13:33Speaker 2: It was like, little girl, I can't go to the
- 13:35Speaker 2: club just yet, Save me a chair, send me a bottle.
- 13:39Speaker 2: I gotta watch Atlanta Housewives because something is happening that
- 13:42Speaker 2: I need to see in this moment. It's sort of
- 13:44Speaker 2: like when we watch Power or p Valley and it's like, look,
- 13:49Speaker 2: I gotta watch it right now, or even drag Race,
- 13:52Speaker 2: Like I gotta watch drag Race right now because Twitter
- 13:55Speaker 2: is gonna spoil it for me, so I gotta watch
- 13:57Speaker 2: it live. That's how Atlanta Housewise used to be and
- 14:02Speaker 2: in my opinion, and I would love to get yours Jasmin.
- 14:05Speaker 2: In my opinion, I just don't think this season is
- 14:08Speaker 2: must see TV and people are willing to not go
- 14:12Speaker 2: to Sunday brunch or have Sunday dinner instead of watching
- 14:16Speaker 2: the show. Like I think people are saying, I'll catch
- 14:19Speaker 2: it Monday or even Tuesday. And I think Beverly Hills, who,
- 14:23Speaker 2: by the way, I don't think they're having a great season, that's.
- 14:27Speaker 1: My opinion, but I think they have.
- 14:31Speaker 2: This fan base that really wants to watch it the
- 14:34Speaker 2: same night it comes on.
- 14:36Speaker 3: Atlanta has that as well. They just don't have as
- 14:39Speaker 3: many people who are willing to do it. Like as
- 14:41Speaker 3: a as a fan of both shows, neither one of
- 14:43Speaker 3: them for me feel like I need to stop what
- 14:45Speaker 3: I'm doing to watch them live.
- 14:47Speaker 4: Right.
- 14:48Speaker 3: It used to be an event, Like you said, it
- 14:50Speaker 3: was an event for a Real Housewives of Atlanta. I
- 14:52Speaker 3: need I need to live tweet this with everybody on Twitter.
- 14:56Speaker 3: I don't want it to be spoiled the same you know,
- 15:00Speaker 3: I guess Beverly Hills has That's no shade. But I've
- 15:02Speaker 3: never felt that way about Beverly Hills.
- 15:05Speaker 1: Not not, not not this season.
- 15:07Speaker 2: Last season I did with Erica Jane drama and Denise
- 15:09Speaker 2: Richard's Bravo, Bravo, fucking Bravo.
- 15:11Speaker 3: Yeah, I never, I never was really into Beverly Hills
- 15:15Speaker 3: like that, But I do agree with you. Neither one
- 15:18Speaker 3: of them are having particularly strong seasons.
- 15:24Speaker 1: For you to say that.
- 15:25Speaker 2: But when I say I'm a hater, Carlos, it's better
- 15:29Speaker 2: focus on your own shows.
- 15:30Speaker 1: I have Honey and we're winning.
- 15:34Speaker 2: But like, I really think it's like the fan base
- 15:38Speaker 2: of musicians, you know how, like your favorite artists can
- 15:40Speaker 2: drop a song that may.
- 15:41Speaker 1: Not be great, but you're gonna rhyme with them anyway.
- 15:44Speaker 2: And play it constantly and say, uh, this song is
- 15:46Speaker 2: really good, though, son, like it has a lot of
- 15:48Speaker 2: moments I like to be in my y.
- 15:54Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I can't, I do have I will.
- 15:56Speaker 3: It is easier for me to be critical because I'm
- 15:59Speaker 3: not a former executive producer of either of those shows.
- 16:02Speaker 3: I'm not heavily attached to the network. So yeah, I mean,
- 16:04Speaker 3: I think for you, you just have to you just
- 16:08Speaker 3: have to take it, really because you you shouldn't have
- 16:11Speaker 3: tweeted it.
- 16:12Speaker 1: You said I should not have no.
- 16:17Speaker 3: As a long as a as a long standing Real
- 16:21Speaker 3: Housewives of Atlanta stand I was burned a little bit
- 16:24Speaker 3: to see you calling these other girls the number one,
- 16:28Speaker 3: even though factually it's true.
- 16:32Speaker 4: The stand in me was like, oh that hurt a
- 16:35Speaker 4: little bit, so.
- 16:36Speaker 1: I can kind of see why they ate you.
- 16:39Speaker 2: And guys, this isn't scripted. She never told me that
- 16:42Speaker 2: until now, So why they.
- 16:45Speaker 4: Ate you up a little bit?
- 16:46Speaker 2: Oh well, not that you guys know my intention. Listen,
- 16:50Speaker 2: I'm a fan of reality TV. I want all of
- 16:55Speaker 2: us to win, So me saying congratulations was not this
- 16:58Speaker 2: sing alan. It was really celebrating that fact that you know,
- 17:04Speaker 2: they they're they're the number one franchise and anything can
- 17:08Speaker 2: be number one, and I'm always gonna give it its praise.
- 17:11Speaker 1: But if I made you.
- 17:13Speaker 2: Guys feel like I was shading Atlanta, I apologize.
- 17:16Speaker 1: It was my intention.
- 17:17Speaker 2: I at the end of the day, Look, I know
- 17:20Speaker 2: that I'm the King of Reality TV, but the beauty
- 17:23Speaker 2: of me, guys, is although I'm an expert in this field,
- 17:27Speaker 2: I'm also a super fan.
- 17:30Speaker 1: So when you see those.
- 17:32Speaker 2: Moments, guys, know that I'm coming at it as a
- 17:36Speaker 2: super fan.
- 17:37Speaker 5: Okay, thought opinions read email me at Reality with the
- 17:45Speaker 5: King at stitra dot com or leave me a voicemail
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