Despite rumors to the contrary, BRAVO’s Real Housewives of Beverly Hills will be premiering, as scheduled, tonight at 8pm EST.  What a way to kick off “Suicide Prevention Week” huh?  No reports as to whether or not people will be tuning in to the increasingly controversial season.  My money’s says it will be the highest rated Real Housewives season premiere to date, but who knows.

According to BRAVO exec Frances Berwick,

Bravo will proceed with the Monday, September 5 premiere date of ‘The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills…  Given that these episodes were filmed months ago, the producers of the show taped a brief interview this week with several of the cast members to introduce the premiere. Re-editing of the episodes is still underway… Our thoughts continue to be with the Armstrong family during this difficult time.

In efforts to combat negative press, the individual interviews filmed with cast memers Adrienne Maloof, Camille Grammer, Kyle Richards, Kim Richards and Lisa Vanderpump will open the show and a series of anti-suicide PSAs will be sprinkled in throughout the premiere.

I think comedian Neal Brennan said it best when he Tweeted:

If you’re current TV watching repertoire includes anti-killing yourself PSAs.  Maybe you should consider changing the channel.

We should.  We really should.  But we probably won’t.

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