Bravo this morning announced a few new "INNOVATIVE AND DIVERSE DOCU-DRAMA AND CHARACTER-DRIVEN PROJECTS," which we assume means "a whole load of new reality TV"! I mean, nowhere does it say that any of these are "scripted," so. They include:

• A show about Hollywood hairstylist Dean Banowetz, whose name will be frequently misspelled, and who works "with rocket scientists inventing his next must have hair product." • "An up-close look at the over-the-top world of celebrity fashion designer Chris March." • Chef Roblé Ali becomes a caterer to New York "socialites"! • And something tentatively called "Thicker than Water" which is apparently about some really large family, so [...]

Bravo's reality show about artists, producing by one S. J. Parker and coming in June, which we've all been sort of anxiously dreading? It is deemed "hilarious" by trustworthy pilot-viewers. But will the show really find America's Next Top Art Star? "Based on what I've seen thus far, the answer to that question is a resounding no," reports our correspondent. I still don't understand how/why China Chow is involved but hey, it's TV, kids!

It's been a week since Bravo's "Work of Art" ended, and art critic and on-air judge Jerry Saltz's final recap of the show for New York magazine's Vulture blog has reached 436 comments. It's rare, in the ADHD world of blog comments, to keep a conversation about any topic going for a full week. But a Bravo reality competition in its first season, whose average viewership across ten episodes was just 1.12 million viewers? A Bravo reality competition whose winner has already been decided? Were you still thinking about Harold Dieterle a week later? (Who? Exactly.)

In his last recap of the show, Jerry suggested that [...]

The Human Rights Campaign stands as the the most well-connected and "influential" gay lobbying group in the United States. The repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell is tops among their legislative goal this year. But winter is melting to spring and there is nothing to show other than Congressman Barney Frank's rumblings that repeal may not happen until 2011-when the 2012 elections, in which Democrats have 23 Senate seats up for reelection, are well gearing up. So HRC was forced to break out the big guns down in D.C. Who else to force the arc of history other than a reality show star?

Poor D.C. is really being torn apart by the invasion of Real Housewives. (It's like K Street never happened!) Writes Mike Riggs: "In reality D.C., everyone who steps into a Cadillac Escalade might wind up sharing canapés with Al Franken at a reception for the Finnish finance minister. In real D.C., even Kal Penn-caliber celebs find themselves balanced out by slack-jawed number crunchers, dumpy lobbyists, and disillusioned activists hustling opaque, fine-print agendas." SOUNDS FUN.

It's upfront season in New York, when the TV networks have 50 or so reporters in to tell them all about their new shows. This morning I hit Bravo's. Most notable were their terrifying new young-skewing reality series, NYC Prep and Miami Social.