Summer House producers are speaking out about the future of the franchise!
The Bravo reality show is currently airing it’s tenth season on the network, with a new spinoff, In the City, debuting later this year.
Since the show’s debut, there have been two other spinoffs – Winter House and Summer House: Martha’s Vineyard – and there are even more in the realm of possibility!
In a new feature, co-founders of Truly Original, the production company behind the series, and EPs on SH, are dishing on what’s to come from Summer House and In the City, which could be evolving into bigger franchises in the future.
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“In The City, while it’s a spinoff of Summer House, it might be its own specific new franchise,” Truly Original co-founder and executive producer Glenda Hersh shared, via Deadline. “We could even take it a step further. In success of In The City, you might be able to, and we are looking into the possibility of, having the cast that does not come from a Summer House, but starts as an In The City. Because once that becomes a form in and of itself, it can travel as its own distinct format and style that doesn’t necessarily have to be birthed by a Summer House.”
Co-founder and EP Scott Weinstock added that they are currently looking for new locations for new versions of Summer House, and explained why Winter House and Summer House: Martha’s Vineyard didn’t quite work out.
“The show has a very specific architecture in terms of its narrative. So, finding that is what we’re endeavoring to do. There are actually two potential places that we’re looking at, so once we find a place where the architecture is correct, we’ll begin the casting process,” he said. “You need a place that people go to on weekends, then come back to their own city life, and it has to extend over a summer in order to make the storytelling compelling. It can’t be a week or 10 days. That won’t work. We tried that with Winter House, and it became clear that the storytelling wasn’t quite as sticky as we needed it, which was related to the fact that we didn’t spend enough time shooting.”
Martha’s Vineyard also followed the similar model of Winter House, taking place over a couple weeks, as opposed to a full summer.
“If you just take a bunch of young people, put them in a house for two weeks and they just drink a lot of just, there’s nothing there,” Glenda agreed. “Summer House is its own franchise. We are exploring, in really advanced ways, a couple of other locations, which would be Summer House: Location, where you are continuing with that specific story style and loose format, but with a change of location and a change of cast. Hopefully we’ll do 10 seasons in each of those [too].”
If you missed it, find out which Summer House stars will be starring in the new spinoff In the City!