The Bad Girls Club or stylized as BGC (Bad Girls Club) is an American reality television series that has been airing on Oxygen since December 6, 2006. The show was created by Jonathan Murray and is produced by Bunim/Murray Productions (the same company that produces the reality series The Real World). The show's premise follows seven women with a number of personal, behavioral, and psychological problems, deemed bad girls , as they live together for three months. Cameras record their relationships and their attempts to accomplish specific goals. There have been five complete aired seasons of the show.[4]
A group of seven rebellious women who are between the ages of 21 and 27 moves in a mansion who try to co-exist with different personalities, lives, race and sexual orientations and above all they must try to adapt to the frequent changes of moods and behaviors of their roommates.[8] The seven initial bad girls must also obey all the rules that were given to them prior to moving in such as no physical violence towards anyone including the producers. The girls must not intrude the show's production room and must tolerate various interviews in their diary rooms.[8] During the show, some girls may divide the house into cliques, create havoc to satisfy oneself, book parties and hook-ups in clubs, groceries shopping which they try to maintain, including their personal lives.[8] The girls are allowed to contact their families and their personal relationship(s), the girls are given either a laptop or personal computer connected to a big screen TV.
To date, watching television and using cell phones are not allowed in the bad girls' house. The girls are also allowed to have frequent visitors to visit them.[8] The girls in the house are there to co-exist with each other to accomplish specif goals and must tolerate situations in order to make it at the end of the season and they accomplish this by staying in the show without being removed or voluntarily leaving the show.[8] Bullying and tag teaming are seen throughout the series of the Bad Girls Club[8]. At the end of the show, some girls change their ways, looks at life in a different perspective, or becomes a role model which are the key results in the show.[8] In each season, when a bad girl is removed or leaves on her own terms, a collage of memorable videos of that bad girl is played shortly after her leave. The memorable videos are a collage of situations that the bad girl was in or was most notable as. A replacement bad girl is then brought onto the show.
Season 2's format changed drastically when the maximum age requirements dropped from 35 to 27, compared from season one. The bad girls of season 2 moved into the remodeled mansion that was given to season one girls in Los Angeles. The changing of mansion style, size, and structure became an incessant change in subsequent seasons. The seven girls were given mandatory non-profit jobs to help them build a work ethic along with stability of being dependent on others, such as teamwork and commitment for success in later life. Failed to come at work or quit, was a mandatory removal from the show. The girls were given the jobs of planning, decision making, and build cooperation. Season 2 became the first and only season of the Bad Girls Club to give jobs for the bad girls and season 2 also became the final season to air 30 minute episodes.[2]
