'The Real Housewives of Miami' season seven cast. Bravo Media Share on Facebook Share on X Share to Flipboard Send an Email Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Print the Article Post a Comment Logo text When it comes to the Real Housewives, Miami is Bravo's hidden gem. After kicking off its first season in 2011, the show was brought to a halt in 2013, until the series was successfully rebooted in 2021. Eight years off the air, Peacock gave The Real Housewives of Miami a new life with a long-overdue fourth season. After two years running on the NBCUniversal streamer, RHOM returned to Bravo in late 2023, where season seven is currently airing on Bravo weekly. Miami has everything viewers could ask for out of a Real Housewives franchise, but there's a notable lack of presence and admiration for the franchise compared to its sister series'. Related Stories TV 'Project Runway' Turns 21: Why Heidi Klum Came Back (and Made It Work Without Tim Gunn) TV A New Reality Dating Series Will Take Place Entirely at the US Open In season seven, Alexia Nepola is grappling with her third divorce. Lisa Hochstein is reeling from the loss of her father. Julia Lemigova recently adopted twins with her wife, Martina Navratilova. Lara Pippin is navigating a messy breakup with Michael Jordan's son. Stephanie Shojaee is a first-time housewife. Guerdy Abraira is learning how to live life after battling and beating cancer. There's no shortage of drama from the main cast, and that doesn't even include the "friends of" the housewives (women showcased in lesser, non "full-time" roles on the show), including Kiki Barth and OGs Adriana de Moura and Marysol Patton. Through the first six episodes of season seven, ratings are up 14 percent on a comparable basis to season six. Still, the show is widely considered "underrated," a sentiment fans have brought up that executive producer Matt Anderson understands. "I think that the fan engagement with this show in particular, because I think they feel in a way responsible for bringing it back, [fans] want to make sure everything is being done for it," Anderson tells The Hollywood Reporter. "I like the conversation, because when people start talking about it, there's more awareness about the show." It's hard to pinpoint what has led to Miami's "underrated" status, especially where the series is undeniably entertaining. Below, in separate edited conversations, Anderson (EP and founder of Purveyors of Pop) and Kathleen French (senior vice president of NBCUniversal Entertainment's unscripted current production) address the show's "underdog" reputation, season seven's physical altercation between Abraira and Lemigova and which Latin pop star should join the cast. *** When RHOM initially got rebooted four years ago, did you ever anticipate that it would get such a great reception from fans and successfully stay on air as a once "paused" Bravo show? FRENCH Absolutely. We have done BravoCon [since] 2019, and anytime in any BravoCon [that] Real Housewives of Miami was mentioned, the audience would go nuts. There was such a fan fever for this show and it never died. The question I was asked all the time was, "When are you going to reboot Miami?" We knew there was an appetite for the viewers to see this show again. ANDERSON I mean, we did it. Now, there are more episodes of the reboot than there are [of] the original. Once we crossed that threshold, it was like, Wow, we are on the other side of that equation, which is pretty amazing, because rebooting is a hard thing to do. We've seen it attempted time and time again. I would say we always knew the audience wanted it, because there was a very loud contingency during the interim period of fans constantly tweeting, asking, wondering where Miami is. Miami is the pioneer of this new Bravo trend where shows are rebooting half or most of a cast, and sticking with a few OG players. Why do you think that this trend has really caught wind in the Bravosphere? ANDERSON Having that baseline from legacy characters based into a reboot is an important piece to the equation, because you want to give [fans] something that is familiar to them. Because we were off the air for seven years, so much had happened in the lives of our OGs. They've experienced divorce, death, marriages, I mean really big life-changing things. That was a really key piece in the successful reboot of it. And then bringing in the new characters is also an opportunity to say, what does a new 2.0 Housewives mean? What could that be? And when we were looking at these incredible women, like Dr. Nicole Martin, she felt like a very 2.0 housewife. She was a doctor, she had her own career. She was coming to the table with an interesting husband and wealth and a beautiful house, but she had her own thing going. Same thing with Guerdy. She was an event planner, she had her own successful career prior to being on the show. And then when