query: instance_of the real housewives of orange county
supports: Reality television is a genre of television programming that documents supposedly unscripted real-life situations, and often features an otherwise unknown cast of individuals who are typically not professional actors, although in some shows celebrities may participate. It differs from documentary television in that the focus tends to be on drama, personal conflict, and entertainment rather than educating viewers. The genre has various standard tropes, including "confessionals" (also called "talking heads" or "interview segments") used by cast members to express their thoughts, which often double as the shows' narration. In competition-based reality shows, a notable subset, there are other common elements such as one participant being eliminated per episode, a panel of judges, and the concept of "immunity from elimination." A media franchise is a set of related media in which several derivative works have been produced from an original creative work (usually that of fiction), such as a film, a work of literature, a television program or a video game. A media franchise is characterized by its components generally sharing a common fictional universe.  Genre (or ; from French "genre" , "kind" or "sort", from Latin "genus" (stem "gener-"), Greek , "gés")  A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses include agriculture, business, and traffic censuses. The United Nations defines the essential features of population and housing censuses as "individual enumeration, universality within a defined territory, simultaneity and defined periodicity", and recommends that population censuses be taken at least every 10 years. United Nations recommendations also cover census topics to be collected, official definitions, classifications and other useful information to co-ordinate international practice. A U.S. state is a constituent political entity of the United States of America. There are 50 states, which are bound together in a union with each other. Each state holds administrative jurisdiction over a defined geographic territory, and shares its sovereignty with the United States federal government. Due to the shared sovereignty between each state and the federal government, Americans are citizens of both the federal republic and of the state in which they reside. State citizenship and residency are flexible, and no government approval is required to move between states, except for persons covered by certain types of court orders (e.g., paroled convicts and children of divorced spouses who are sharing custody). A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or civil parish. The term is used in the United States, Canada, Romania, China and Taiwan. In the United Kingdom and Ireland, county towns have a similar function. A television program is a segment of content intended for broadcast on over-the-air, cable television, or Internet television, other than a commercial, trailer, or any other segment of content not serving as attraction for viewership. It may be a single production, or more commonly, a series of related productions (also called a television series or a television show). The Real Housewives is an American media franchise that consists of several reality television series broadcast on Bravo. The shows document the lives of several affluent housewives residing in varying regions throughout the United States. The first version, "The Real Housewives of Orange County", premiered on March 21, 2006; its success resulted in spin-off series located in New York City and Atlanta in 2008; New Jersey in 2009; Washington, D.C. and Beverly Hills in 2010; Miami in 2011; Potomac and Dallas in 2016. The subsequent installments have proven similarly successful, and have resulted in numerous spin-off series of their own. The Real Housewives of Orange County ( abbreviated RHOC ) is an American reality television series that premiered on March 21 , 2006 , on Bravo . It has aired ten seasons and focuses on the personal and professional lives of several women residing in Orange County , California . The series originally focused on Kimberly Bryant , Jo De La Rosa , Vicki Gunvalson , Jeana Keough , and Lauri Waring ( now Peterson ) ; the current lineup of housewives consists of Gunvalson , Tamra Barney ( now Judge ) , Heather Dubrow , Shannon Beador , and Meghan King Edmonds . Of the original housewives , Bryant and De La Rosa respectively left after the first and second seasons , while Peterson and Keough respectively stopped filming during production of the fourth and fifth seasons . The remaining housewives joined in later seasons ; Judge in the third , Dubrow in the seventh , Beador in the ninth , and Edmonds in the tenth . Other housewives include Tammy Knickerbocker ( season 2 -- 3 ) , Quinn Fry ( season 3 ) , Gretchen Rossi ( season 4 -- 8 ) , Lynne Curtin ( season 4 -- 5 ) , Alexis Bellino ( season 5 -- 8 ) , Peggy Tanous ( season 6 ) , Lydia McLaughlin ( season 8 ) , and Lizzie Rovsek ( season 9 ) . Its success has allowed for the development of The Real Housewives franchise and similar spin - off series based in New York City , Atlanta , New Jersey , Washington , D.C. , Beverly Hills , Miami , Potomac and Dallas . The Real Housewives of Orange County has additionally resulted in the conceptions of the spin - offs Date My Ex : Jo & Slade and Tamra 's OC Wedding . California is the most populous state in the United States and the third most extensive by area. Located on the western (Pacific Ocean) coast of the U.S., California is bordered by the other U.S. states of Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona and shares an international border with the Mexican state of Baja California. The state capital is Sacramento. Los Angeles is California's most populous city, and the country's second largest after New York City. The state also has the nation's most populous county, Los Angeles County, and its largest county by area, San Bernardino County. Orange County is a county in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2010 census, the population was 3,010,232 making it the third-most populous county in California, the sixth-most populous in the United States, and more populous than twenty-one U.S. states. Its county seat is Santa Ana. It is the second most densely populated county in the state, second only to San Francisco County. The county's four largest cities, Anaheim, Santa Ana, Irvine, and Huntington Beach each have populations exceeding 200,000. Several of Orange County's cities are on the Pacific coast, including Huntington Beach, Newport Beach, Laguna Beach, and San Clemente.
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answer: television program