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Page Six's full scoop on Julia Allison's "IT Girls" reality show


Valleywag commenters hate the idea, but the New York Post's Page Six loves IT Girls, the proposed reality TV show with New York umtrepreneurs Julia Allison, Meghan Asha and Mary Rambin.

These three are more career-driven and have more to say than their L.A. counterparts, which should only lead to more drama. Even when they're not hitting Waverly Inn for dinner or flying cross-country for exclusive Silicon Alley [sic] events, this clique is never boring. They get Restylane injections for fun, own pocket-size dogs, and never go anywhere without blogging about it. What's not to love?
In the full-spread pic below, the Post speculates, and we can confirm, the show will air on Bravo, if the pilot's picked up. (One correction: Meghan Asha, née Parikh, is the heir to her father's Silicon Valley fortune, but it didn't come from Sun Microsystems.) Set your DVR now.

4:40 PM on Mon Mar 24 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
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  • These girls have no idea how silly they look. Didn't Julia Allison say that she didn't think you had to know Tech to report on Tech? Oy Vey! I feel so sorry for them.

  • Image of Alaska Miller Alaska Miller at 05:01 PM on 03/24/08 *

    @BigDaddyBear:

    That's how Natali Del Conte has a career. Badaching!

  • Image of vulturesquadron vulturesquadron at 05:02 PM on 03/24/08 *

    I love how they only give the age of one of them.

  • the only real thing in that page is that mary is a handbag designer...

    "a huge tech geek"..sorry..but imho to be a tech geek you need to actually know tech...dating ppl that knows tech don't make you a tech geek.. more of like a tech geek groupie.

    "hedge funder" uh.....just cuz ur the daughter of a hedge fund guy doesn't make you a hedge funder.. if she's actually really running a hedge fund...i would like to see what kind of return she's making considering.. or did she ran one of those that blew up with the subprime and hence she got all these free time to run around town.

  • I have never heard of any of these three chicks. Who are they again? I guess I should stop following the even larger careers of iJustine, Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian so I could devote more time to following these three trainwrecks. Why is this even a story again? Where am I?

  • No commenter image uploaded Patricia2 at 05:38 PM on 03/24/08 *

    I've been developing a similar idea for a while, like last year, have talked with lots of people in tv show development on it, we're about to shoot for our pilot again, had to rework it, though pilots are like powerpoints. Standard issue way of presenting ideas. The point is, I've done okay in tech and had the same idea, so these girls can't be all that stupid.

  • I hope the fools who take that airplane and fund/watch the show bring parachutes.

  • All this is the work of a talent agent. Buried back in Julia's blog is the name (and photo even) of their William Morris agent. Careers are built this way - an article at a time - according to a strategic plan devised by the WMA agent.

  • whats the start up? will your show feature programmers?

  • Image of Alaska Miller Alaska Miller at 06:08 PM on 03/24/08 *

    @Patricia2:

    patricia, you're melting my heart

  • now valhalla is falling.... jesus is already wept out. Sorry Patricia, but you actually run a business, you actually know something technology; they don't- they are purely in it for the schtick and exposure.

  • they'll bomb on tv, specially reality tv.

    they have no assets: looks, nor personality.

  • Image of raincoaster raincoaster at 06:40 PM on 03/24/08 *

    "umtepreneurs?" Geniosity.

  • Image of matto matto at 06:50 PM on 03/24/08 *

    Dear Cinemax:
    Please pick this up before Bravo does. Basic cable will not do these ladies justice.

  • No, "untrepreneurs."

    Also: Mary's grandpa is the ex-Chairman and CEO of Texaco. Contrast to Meghan, and reflect upon how the second generation loads up on entitlement but comes up short on the brains and the cash.

  • Julia has even said she is not a tech person. This show will literally be a bunch of giggling, bad karaoke, partying and high maintenance pampering. If they actually did a show about three women who were in tech and did their own work from the ground up starting with a business plan,programming etc I might actually DVR it. The problem is these girls can't do any real tech work.

  • Image of raincoaster raincoaster at 08:13 PM on 03/24/08 *

    @tawni: That's not actually a problem as far as television viewership is concerned. If it were a webcast, it might be.
    @meanguy: Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations, they say.

  • @Patricia2: Yeah, except they're not getting fleeced like you are, points for them!

  • No commenter image uploaded Patricia2 at 08:28 PM on 03/24/08 *

    @Rick, I'm sticking up for them. Clearly you've missed the point.

  • @Rick - Patricia already sold her company.

    This show will be about 3 spoiled girls giggling, laughing, getting their hair done and coming to "geek" parties so they can stick out in the crowd next to the, face it, uglier geek-world. What would be interesting if they showed the behind the scenes of that those 3 *really* say:
    Gawd, does anyone in this town know what a shower is?
    ewww did you see how FAT she is?
    Sick, this is the cheapest wine ever.
    Does Mens Waerhouse, like, make those blue shirts en masse?
    Would you EVER do him?
    Well, he's got a lot of stock options! tee hee!
    Gross, did you see her purse, like from 2001 TJMaxx collection. And those shoes!
    We looked hot.
    Yeah, wayyyy hotter than those other bitches.
    Hell to the yeah.
    As if!
    Really.
    Gawd.














  • Image of WagCurious WagCurious at 08:38 PM on 03/24/08 *

    I hate to be the contrarian here, but has anyone actually suffered through the production of a season of TV? If they get a distribution deal they'll have hours of grueling production ahead of them. And the pay is horrific. And the conditions are horrific. And if it's a reality show a big, fat, hairy union guy gets to stand in the middle of your bedroom and say,"Didja get that teddy at Victoria's Secret?"

    Bitch and moan all you want, if they get a deal these girls are going to work. Oh yeah, and at the end of the season that teddy is going to go suspiciously missing.

  • Image of matto matto at 09:01 PM on 03/24/08 *

    @WagCurious: I'll take the gig. My qualifications are two years of film school and a utter and final hatred of computers.

  • Bleh, Bleh, and Bleh. Let's just see them naked already, jebus.

  • What are those hideous things on their arms? Some sort of napsack or something? Wtf?

    The only reason I'm excited to see this show is at the possible chance the middle aged men funding their vacations and adventures gets out'd... you know none of these idiots can afford to fly around on private jets and stay in 5 star hotels etc on their own dime.

    Someone is behind all this .. or a few people are.. but its definitely not them putting up the cash for these expeditions..

    I highly doubt that meghan's parents have been funding these trips and events..

  • Image of WagCurious WagCurious at 10:11 PM on 03/24/08 *

    @matto: So that's why you are always ragging on us "computer nerds"... Seriously, install Windows Vista and try out the new Movie Maker. Awesome free tool.

  • @Zoo
    It's the Knapsack of Bitchdom with a +2 Golddigging Enchant

  • Image of matto matto at 10:29 PM on 03/24/08 *

    @WagCurious: I hate the computers, not the computer people. Well, to be honest, I dislike most of the computer people too.

  • Image of raincoaster raincoaster at 10:39 PM on 03/24/08 *

    @WagCurious: "The pay is horrific." Compared to blogging?

  • @kristen_: Do they drop only from talking heads in the east hills?

  • Puke, they look dumb..and um, nowheres close to fabulous

  • @michaellamb: I'm aware of that.

    @Patricia2: I'm aware of that also and am right onto your point.

    My point is, YOU won't be the first silicon valley person to make some money and then lose some of it to Hollywood.

  • No commenter image uploaded Patricia2 at 07:24 AM on 03/25/08 *

    @Rick, assuming I've lost money. :) I started working on the idea long before I made any money in tech but that's besides the point. To quote myself, "You shouldn't need money for a show..."

  • Image of vulturesquadron vulturesquadron at 08:45 AM on 03/25/08 *

    @Patricia2: What's sadder:

    (a) the girls who have a reality show but clearly aren't interesting enough to pull it off, or

    (b) the girl who nearly, almost had a reality show but now just talks about it and claims the idea was hers first?

  • No commenter image uploaded Patricia2 at 09:11 AM on 03/25/08 *

    @vulturesquadron, well, note i said mine's 'similar'. But, regardless, I filed the treatment with the writer's guild in 2006 I think, have a bunch treatments written up that have been sent out, a paper trail, footage shot... but, none of that matters. It's different, trust me. I was stating that I had a similar idea for their benefit....hence the "they must not be that stupid note..."

  • I'm looking forward to the lowlights on The Soup.

  • Image of vulturesquadron vulturesquadron at 09:22 AM on 03/25/08 *

    @Patricia2: Well I wish you the best of luck. It's a crowded field out there, getting more crowded by the millisecond.

  • @Patricia2: well good luck sista

  • @WagTehValley: Yuk! Especially the purse mustache girl.

  • eh these skanks couldn't scratch their way out of a Fedora box, I'd like to see them crawling around under racks tracing cables.

    This is SO stupid and an insult to all "REAL" girls that are in IT. They'll be banging their bosses in the telco closet in the first eposide. Im scared to watch.. *shudder*

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