It seems that the Bad Girls Club got off to a good start when the show kicked off its third season last Tuesday night.  Bad Girls Club made network history, becoming Oxygen's highest rated and most watched season premiere ever. The premiere episode attracted 807,000 total viewers, a 116 percent improvement from last season's premiere.

According to Nielsen Media Research, Bad Girls Club also scored a 0.8 household rating and was viewed by 568,000 people 18-49, 405,000 women between 18 and 49 and 337,000 women 18-34. Furthermore, network officials said the season premiere beat all Oxygen's season premieres including its recent hit series Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood.

On last week's premiere, the seven cast members were introduced to the viewers. You can read more about the girls in this previous article.  Deemed as “bad girls” with psychological and personality issues, they'll be living together for four months as cameras record their interpersonal relationships and their attempts to accomplish specific goals.

Amber M., one of the two Ambers this season, has earned quite a bad rep as a racist in the first episode.  But she claims she may have been portrayed wrong.

“It saddens me from the first episode that I may have been portrayed as racist. I apologize if my words may have offended someone . I understand that I may have come from a small town in Minnesota but that doesn't mean I am an ignorant racist. I did not grow up in a home that is racist and/or prejudice,” Amber M. said on her blog on Oxygen.
 
“I dislike people that are racist and I try not to surround myself around people that ignorant,” she added.

Don't forget to catch Amber M. and the rest of the girls of the Bad Girls Club tonight at 10pm on Oxygen.


-Kris De Leon, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
Source: Oxygen
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