Bad Girls Club

This article is about the television series. For the song by Jeanette, see Bad Girls Club (song).

Bad Girls Club
GenreReality television
Created by
Opening theme
  • "Love Me or Hate Me" by Lady Sovereign (season 1)
  • "Bad Girls" by Tokyo Diiva (seasons 2–4)
  • "Bad Girls" (remix) by Tokyo Diiva (seasons 5–15)
  • "Bad Girls Anthem" by unknown artist (seasons 16–17)
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons17
No. of episodes275 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers
Camera setupMultiple
Running time
  • 20–22 minutes (seasons 1–2)
  • 40–43 minutes (seasons 3–17)
Production companyBunim/Murray Productions
Original release
NetworkOxygen
ReleaseDecember 5, 2006 (2006-12-05) –
May 2, 2017 (2017-05-02)
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Bad Girls Club (abbreviated BGC) is a 2006 American reality television series created by Jonathan Murray[1] for the Oxygen network in the United States.[2][3] The show focused on the altercations and physical confrontations of seven aggressive, quarrelsome, unruly women. They were featured on the show as "charismatic tough chicks." The cast, deemed "bad girls," enjoyed a luxurious lifestyle in a mansion for three months, during which they obeyed specified rules. Their lives inside and outside the house were recorded by a production team.

Bad Girls Club aired on at least seven networks in other countries: Sky Living in the United Kingdom and Ireland, MTV in Australia, New Zealand and Russia, RTL 5 in the Netherlands, TV11 in Sweden, SIC Radical in Portugal, Velvet in the Philippines, and Channel [V] in Southeast Asia. If a cast member violated production rules, she was evicted from the show and often replaced. The fourth season was the series' "breakthrough season" as Oxygen's first series to average over one million viewers per episode.[4]

There were four spin-offs, including Bad Girls Road Trip, Tanisha Gets Married, Love Games: Bad Girls Need Love Too, and Bad Girls All-Star Battle. In late 2016, Bad Girls Club was renewed for a 17th season, Bad Girls Club: East Meets West.[5] In February 2017, the series' future was put in limbo with the network's announcement that it would convert to a true crime programming format, which was instituted in July 2017. Of the series' future, NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment Lifestyle Networks president Frances Berwick said, "Bad Girls Club, at this stage, I don't see it on Oxygen linear," suggesting that it could air in a non-linear media form. "Beyond that, we haven't figured it out yet."[6]

  1. ^ Ho, Rodney (January 15, 2013). "Interview with Jonathan Murray, creator of "Bad Girls Club Atlanta' on Oxygen Jan. 15". Access Atlanta. Archived from the original on November 2, 2013. Retrieved October 30, 2013.
  2. ^ "MTV Greenlights Additional Seasons of THE CHALLENGE, THE REAL WORLD". MTV News, Broadway World. April 1, 2012. Retrieved April 4, 2012.
  3. ^ Ng, Philiana (June 1, 2011). "Bunim/Murray Promotes Development Team Behind 'Bad Girls Club'". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved April 4, 2012.
  4. ^ "Oxygen's Hit Series "Bad Girls Club" Returns for Fourth Season Premiering Tuesday, December 1 at 10pm ET/PT". The Futon Critic. October 13, 2009. Retrieved October 30, 2013.
  5. ^ "Bad Girls Club on Twitter". Twitter. Oxygen. December 13, 2016. Retrieved December 15, 2016.
  6. ^ Goldberg, Lesley (February 1, 2017). "Oxygen Officially Rebranding as Crime-Focused Network". The Hollywood Reporter. United States: Eldridge Industries. Archived from the original on February 1, 2017. Retrieved March 14, 2017.