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Dow ↓ Bravo ↑

As the Dow continues to plummet Bravo's ratings keep going higher. Last month they claimed their biggest ratings ever according to a fascinating article in the Kansas City Star.

Recently Bravo's affluential programming has been under attack for being out of step with the times and as peddlers of sub-prime pornography. But Affluencer-In-Chief Lauren Zalazanick argues that Bravo was one of the first networks to respond to the recession before there even officially was one.

“We were shooting the first season of a show called ‘Million Dollar Listing,’” she recalled. “We wanted to have both houses close at the end of the show. We wanted resolution.”

Bravo had a successful show about reselling high-end homes, “Flipping Out,” and this seemed like a natural extension.

Just one problem: “The houses were not closing,” Zalaznick said. “It took forever to shoot.”

Eventually, the format of “Million Dollar Listing” changed with the times: Instead of both deals closing every episode, usually only one would.

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