• The Hollywood Reporter, Friday, April 8, 2011 1:15 PM

Bravo execs declined a second season of "Real Housewives of D.C," and we're not sure why. Isn't the franchise ever-expanding? (There's gotta be some overprivileged, silly blondes in the Midwest, right?) Though ratings for the Beltway version have not been stellar, the Miami franchise actually "has been drawing lower numbers than D.C.," according to Hollywood Reporter.

Or was there just a bit too much legal hoopla generated by the most well-known Housewife of that season, Michaele Salah, who allegedly crashed a White House event with her husband Tareq? Or have Bravo execs decided that the public's taste for such addictively guilty-pleasure TV has waned? We wonder.

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