Fashion House is an
American telenovela that aired at 9 p.m. ET/8 p.m. CT Monday through Saturday on
MyNetworkTV stations. The series premiered on
September 5,
2006 and concluded on
December 5,
2006. It was produced by
Twentieth Television with directors David Hogan, Alex Hennech, Jim Slocum and Jeremy Stanford.
Fashion House focused on greed, lust and ambition surrounding a corporate takeover of the business's hottest company. It starred
Bo Derek as the ruthless head of the business and
Morgan Fairchild as her long-time arch-rival. The show was known more for the leads' hair-pulling, name-calling, and vase-throwing than for its romance, passion and drama.
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment has not announced plans to release this series on
DVD.
Production notes
Fashion House aired for a 65-episode run.
MyNetworkTV episode aired it Monday through Friday for 13 weeks, with a "recap" show on Saturdays airing at 9 p.m. Eastern. It was based on the
Cuban telenovela
Salir de Noche (
"Out in the Night"), produced by
Miami firm XYSTUS. MyNetworkTV originally planned to use the umbrella title
Secrets, later changed to
Secret Obsessions, for its telenovelas in the 9:00 p.m. ET timeslot, with
Fashion House as its first installment. While the show is set in
Los Angeles, it was filmed at
Stu Segall Productions in San Diego.
Its debut week saw modest viewership; an average 1.3 household rating and 2 share, slightly higher than its lead in,
Desire, according to Nielsen. The second week dipped to 1.1 million viewers. During the next few weeks, ratings stabilized at a 0.6 rating.
National advertising spots sold for between $20,000 and $35,000 for a 30-second spot as of September 2006.
Cast
Theme
The theme song played during the opening credits was
Chesterwhites "Good At Being Bad".
Crossover
A later
MyNetworkTV telenovela,
American Heiress, made a brief reference to this show. In episode 17, which aired on June 6, Jordan Wakefield says that "since Maria Gianni died you can't find a decent dress in a store."
International
- In Belgium, Punt. aired the series Monday through Friday at 8pm
- In Bulgaria, bTV aired the series Monday through Friday at 6pm, with a "recap" show on Saturdays airing at 3pm. The series premiere was on January 1, 2007 and the last episode aired on March 27, 2007.
- In Serbia, the series runs weekdays at 6pm on FOX.
- In Australia, the complete series ran weekdays at 11am on the Seven Network in early 2007, and previously ran on Foxtel's W Channel and now is airing again at 4am .
- In Pakistan , Star World airs the show on weeknights at 11:00pm with recap on Sundays at 11pm.
- In Nepal. Star World aired the show on weeknights at 11:15 pm and recapped it at 2:45 am and on 4:45 the next afternoon.
- In Hong Kong, Star World airs the show from Feb 6, 2007 weeknights at 10pm, plus weekdays and Saturday afternoons at 4.30pm.
- In Kenya, KTN airs the show sundays at 10:30.
- In the Netherlands the show aired Monday - Friday 6.30pm on Tien until the station airing it was brought out by rival television network RTL 8. The show stopped airing on 17 August 2007, one day before the takeover.
- In Sri Lanka, ARTv Wednesday @ 9.30 pm - 10.30 pm & Repeat on Friday @ 9.30 pm - 10.30 pm.
- In Spain, Cuatro started airing on September/17/07. 10:45 to 12:15 from Monday to Friday.
- In Portugal, the series airs from Monday to Friday on mornings (9:40 - 10:25) and late at night (2:55 - 3:40) on Fox Life.
- In the Philippines, the show airs in Star World
Episodes
See also
