CAMELOT FANTASIES

Second Secret Cast to be Revealed Midseason for RHOA 8

October 16, 2015

http://news.lalate.com/2015/10/16/rhoa-8-second-secret-cast-to-be-revealed-midseason-exclusive/

LOS ANGELES (LALATE EXCLUSIVE) – The RHOA 8 cast for the franchise’s November 2015 debut was released by BravoTV several weeks ago. But LALATE has exclusively learned that viewers may get a major twirl halfway through the season. Producers are considering rolling out a second “secret cast” of two or more supporting members to join the franchise for the series’ second half.

RHOA 8’s supporting cast members for the franchise’s first half are Shamea Morton and Sheree Whitfield. But LALATE has learned that that RHOA 8 will likely only use Morton and Whitfield for the first twelve episodes of the season. After that, two or more new faces, as supporting members, will be added to the mix for the remaining twelve episodes of the twenty-four episode season. Those faces are Amiyah Scott and Tammy McCall Browning.

The marketing tactic is commonly used in reality programming now. When a franchise’s season is exceptionally long, and there is a concern that storylines might not survive 20+ episodes, producers introduce new faces for multiple episode arches, or in this case, for half seasons.

For months, RHOA die hard fans have notice that there were a bit too many cast members for this eighth season. LALATE has now learned what is at play.

Namely, producers began filming Tammy McCall Browning and Amiyah Scott months ago in what is called exposition scenes. Now that Shamea Morton and Sheree Whitfield have wrapped filming from RHOA, producers will now focus on Tammy McCall Browning and Amiyah Scott’s storylines as they derive from those narrative scenes. When it comes to the reunion, none of these supporting faces will be featured.