So you may have missed this small tidbit, but Rihanna’s “Styled to Rock” is premiering on Bravo October 25.
The critical fact in that little blurb is that Oct 25th is a Friday. SMH. Who watches TV on Friday?
So here’s the skinny. Last week it was announced that NBC cable boss Bonnie Hammer scrapped the Style network which was where Rihanna’s show was originally supposed to air. Style was taken over by Esquire during a re-org by Hammer. He felt the channel was “redundant” with its programming that was similar to Bravo, E! and Oxygen – all of which fall under the NBC umbrella.
Style’s bigwigs had been planning for RiRi’s show to boost Sunday night’s ratings, a prime night for the former network. However, when execs screened Ri’s competition series they weren’t impressed and placed the show in the Friday night slot.
A Style network source reports that “Rihanna’s camp is pissed from promises to be a huge star on Style to a terrible time slot on Bravo.” Friday night…. They should be pissed.
In other Ri news, her second and new MAC collection, “RiRi Hearts MAC Fall,” goes on sale this week in stores Oct 3rd through Oct 31st. I didn’t realize it was a limited run. Yesterday there was an early release online that sold out in an hour. Apparently the RiRi collection is not a game.
You can get a true-to-life glimpse of the collection by peeking at Rihanna’s Glamour cover.
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