“Summer House” is entering a transitional chapter as it celebrates season 10 — and producers say the franchise is only getting bigger.
The Bravo reality series returned on February 3 with its milestone 10th season, opening with the show’s strongest debut in history, according to Deadline. The Hamptons-set series follows a group of friends who house-share over the summer weekends.
Season 10 introduces six new cast members while longtime star Paige DeSorbo exits the show. Lindsay Hubbard returns for her first season as a mom, and Amanda Batula and Kyle Cooke’s marriage remains a focal point after the pair announced their split in January, months after filming wrapped.
Newcomer Bailey Taylor summed up the chaos in a season 10 scene, saying, “This is too much for me, I just want to eat shrimp and die alone,” as Cooke and Carl Radke argued in the driveway.
Returning cast members include Batula, Cooke, Hubbard, Ciara Miller, Radke, Jesse Solomon and West Wilson.
New additions this season are Mia Calabrese, KJ Dillard, Dara Levitan, Levi Sebree, Taylor, and Ben Waddell, a former star of “The Australian Bachelor.”
‘In the City’ Spinoff Signals Franchise Evolution
As the original series evolves, producers are expanding the universe.
The show previously launched “Winter House,” which ran for three seasons, and “Summer House: Martha’s Vineyard,” which ran for two.
Now, “In the City” will premiere later this year and follow Cooke, Batula, and Hubbard as they navigate life in New York during the fall.
“’In The City’ is the evolution of their lives,” Truly Original co-founder Steven Weinstock told Deadline. “These characters are beloved but they’re at the point which going out to the Hamptons and intoxicating themselves and hooking up is not biologically in their rhythm anymore. It’s the obvious next step in that kind of evolutionary process, and it will have a distinct storytelling style itself that is more reflective.”
Co-founder Glenda Hersh said the spinoff could become its own franchise model.
“’In The City,’ while it’s a spinoff of ‘Summer House’, it might be its own specific new franchise,” Hersh told the outlet. “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.’”
Producers Exploring New ‘Summer House’ Locations
Beyond “In The City,” Truly Original is scouting new locations for additional versions of “Summer House.”
“The show has a very specific architecture in terms of its narrative. So, finding that is what we’re endeavoring to do,” Weinstock said. “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 added that the format requires a location people visit on weekends throughout an entire summer.
“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,” Weinstock said.
Hersh echoed that approach.
“’Summer House’ is its own franchise. We are exploring, in really advanced ways, a couple of other locations, which would be Summer House: Location,” she said. “Hopefully we’ll do 10 seasons in each of those [too].”
New episodes of season 10 of “Summer House” air Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET.
