Bravo - Live Stream TV Shows Reviews

by Diadnab

I’ve waited to give this rating for over a year now. However, it’s finally so frustrating I need to share. Bravo has the most horrible airplay of any app I’ve used. If I share from my phone (or my iPad) first, it tries to play the automatic video Bravo has on the home page, then it’s hard to get it to start playing the actual video I want to play. Then, when I finally get it to start playing, if the screen locks, the video stops playing. God forbid I get a phone call. It’s the worst trying to get it to start playing the video again. I have to close Bravo out completely and start all over again. I use a multitude of air play apps and this is the absolute worst. Which is sad because this app is my favorite channel. I should be able to airplay and let my screen time out. Or I should be able to flip to my texts and not have to worry about the video stopping. Please fix your app.

by James H Monroe

Update Aug 2021: now only the nbc livestream works in the this app app but not the this app live stream. LOLLLL

UPDATE April 2020: now the “updated” app has a glitch where the audio cuts out every few seconds and video continues. So you miss every ten words they say. It’s so bizarre. Same airplay issues other reviewers have noted. It tries playing the preview videos or random clips from app main screen when you try to airplay a specific episode. And it will not continue playing if you lock iPad screen. Many other apps allow you to sleep the iPad and airplay continues. The audio glitch is unique to Bravo and NBC Universal’s E! App as well. Clearly a dev problem orgwide

Bravo automatically updated and I regret forgetting to turn off auto updates. this app app love stream doesn’t work since update. I’ve reinstalled and unlinked and linked and restarted. Running a perfectly functioning iPad Pro. Boo this app

by M.S Ca

Terrible app. App glitches non stop! Constant error messages. No other apps have issues. Just this app! Took multiple videos to show. It glitches and you can’t hear the words every few seconds. Plus if you pause it it won’t restart. Makes you watch all over again plus TWICE THE AMOUNT OF COMMERCIALS And then MORE COMMERCIALS! More commercials than I’ve ever experienced in my life!! Not paying for this premium channel anymore because there’s nothing premium about it! Can’t get shows on demand. It’s basic AF! No excuse for this garbage this app! Keep up with the quality and features of all the other great network apps or move outta the way! I barely watch anymore because I don’t have the patience for the wasted time and annoyance! Can’t watch new episodes at same time as tv air time/day! This is ridiculous!!!!!! So frustrating!!!! Not everyone wants to be hostage to watching a tv in the living room! Some of us prefer taking a tablet around the house or laying in our beds with a tablet and headphones as to not disturb others or sleeping partners etc! Not convenient whatsoever, hard to navigate, find episodes NOT CLIPS! We want FULL EPISODES! They’re all mixed up out of order hard to search never released early etc etc. so lame!!

by Majestabecca

There are so many apps now and streaming potential I’m amazed that this app a huge cash cow, isn’t using its full potential!
We all know main stream television cable even satellite television services are becoming out dated! Streaming and smart everything makes sure no body in this economy is no longer blowing 170 a month on a cable or satellite television service when someone only watches once channel to 2 if that!
I would have cancelled years ago if I had not been offered a good remain with us deal at 25 a month! But I wondered for the last 3 why doesn’t this app offer their service channel at a small fee! I’d be wayyyy more willing to pay 5 bucks a month to stream then be forced cable/dish astronomical fees to get that channel included and even then a lot don’t carry it!
So again! I ask you why are you limiting yourselves! Cable/satellite Tv is a thing of the past! It’s like when blockbuster said no to Netflix! Where’s the nearest blockbuster now! I can tell u no where around here or where I have traveled to since the 90s!
Reinvent yourselves like other channels have for small fees or this app won’t be giving any more Mani or pedi cures very soon!

by Myfitnessuser

Love my real housewives but Bravo is so glitchy. It never picks up where I left off on an episode. Any time you pause for a length of time, it starts the entire episode over again. Then I have to watch a million commercials to get back to where I left off. The Watch Live feature doesn’t work properly. The written show guide will say one show is playing, but a different show from hours ago is actually playing. So the guide is hours ahead of what’s airing. On the home page, Favorited shows are after 4 other categories - favorites should be at the top, they are favorited for easy access!! “Never Before Scenes” should not be classified as new episodes. I’m constantly clicking to watch the “next episode” under Latest Episodes, only to realize it’s not actually a new episode, it’s just a Never Before Scene. So then I have to close out and go right back to the home page to navigate to the main show page. Bravo is just too overly complicated to navigate and not reliable.

by Manicgoblin

I stopped watching the new season of VPR solely because of how horrible it is to navigate Bravo and watch a show from start to finish. if you pause the show, it makes you RESTART the show… and when you forward to the spot you were originally at, it makes you watch the commercials AGAIN. not to mention I spend more time watching a buffering symbol than I do the actual episode. I want to spend 45 mins watching the episode, not TWO HOURS with the majority of it being a buffering screen. I pay loads of money to make sure I have the fastest wifi possible, and it is not my network. no other apps or streaming services I use have this issue. I just want to mindlessly watch my reality TV, not overwhelmed with anger and frustration every time I open a new episode. my boyfriend and I completely stopped watching VPR three weeks ago, and we’re just going to wait until the new season drops on peacock to finish it up. beyond disappointed and sad :(

by NYC131313

I paid for a season pass of Below Deck via Prime. this app put the reunion on a separate show, WWHL so it won’t show up in the show season pass which is frustrating. I would have paid another $2 to pay for the episode but this app isn’t making it available anywhere other than their crappy app. Downloaded it and signed up for an nbc universal acct for three free shows. Have repeatedly tried to play the episode on my phone and stream it to my tv using airplay. I do this with every tv show I buy online. The this app app won’t allow this- it constantly plays random commercials, cuts to random this app shows, and then shows the screen of the one show I want to see, then starts the cycle again. It’s like Someome has disabled the ability to stream from your phone to the tv. Why? Is this to get me to sign back up for crappy cable. No thanks. Same experience on the nbc app. Deleted both apps and my profile. Guess I’ll miss the reunion. Back to Netflix!

by LYNRICKI

I’m glad I’m among a GREAT group of people and it’s not just me having issues with trying to watch the after shows/other shows on BravoTV.

It’s easier for me to watch the after shows on my iPhone XR (just saying so the network can’t say I have an old phone) bc I have it on me.
I watch the first 30 minutes of WWHL on this app TV. I would love 💕 to continue watching this app after show. I may possibly call in and voice my opinion. But at this point it doesn’t seem to matter what electronics device I try to use during a this app program bc nothing works or better yet it works for a few minutes and then stops.
Hmmmm???

Like someone else pointer out, the combined company’s that now own this app should have a better handle on the broadcasting of all this app shows.

NBC/Universal please explain to those of us that are avid watchers of all that’s this app and who have written complaining about the same issues, what and why aren’t you doing something (like fix the issues) about it??

I would think you’d do a better job to accommodate us. Surely you don’t want us to keep complaining???

Or maybe you do?

I bet it’s thats old saying bad publicity is just as good.

The sad thing is, NBC/Universal are almost around the corner from each other. I grew up living in between the 2 studios.

Nowadays there’s no excuse for bad TV.

UGH!!! 😩

by Kclozano

Bravo seriously needs a lot of improvements! Ya better hope you don’t have any interruptions because pausing it can be a gamble. Sometimes I have to back out and come back, having to rewatch parts or commercials, and other times it comes back super grainy or the picture and sound aren’t in sync. Quit pushing your NBCUniversal Profile on me! I have a tv provider and it’s like it doesn’t like that. I have to constantly re link my tv provider and when I do, it still doesn’t let me watch sometimes. It’ll just sit there blank frozen looking screen. So I try and go to the menu bar to link up that way instead and the Link Your TV Provider button is THE ONLY button that won’t work. Seriously??? All the other ones work but when I click on it, it doesn’t take me to the screen I need. Bravo is always a constant pain to the point that I angrily felt the need to go out of my way to write a bad review! Fix your app problems!

by Bvxyj

I have to say that Bravo is absolutely horrific! I love this app and I love the shows but whoever created Bravo needs to be fired! Bravo has issues every single time I use it several times a week and it constantly just shuts down or freezers or that little dial just spins when I go to play it. Sometimes I will click on a show and it’ll play something completely different or I will start to watch a show and stop and hen I go back later it will tell me that I’ve already completed watching it and won’t let me go back to it. If you’re considering downloading Bravo do not do it it will cause you frustration every day of your life!!!!!

Update***** deleted Bravo because it was so terrible give it six months download it today because I thought maybe by now they made some improvements but nope first show I’m watching not even 10 minutes in and already paused itself six times this is the most terrible app I’ve ever used!!!!

by Lexi0865

If I could give it zero stars I would. It took me days to be able to log in with my cable provider because it kept giving me an error message. When it finally let me log in with my cable account, none of the episodes would stream. It constantly gave me a video playback error message and told me to restart the video. I've tried restarting the videos, restarting Bravo , deleting and downloading Bravo , signing in and signing out of Bravo , turn off and on my WiFi and still have not been able to get one video to play. I've tried contacting them through Bravo like I was told every time I got an error message, and every time I got the same automatic response that had nothing to do with the issue I had. I would then try to reply to that response and never receive a response back. It baffles me how such a big network doesn't have the resources to make their app work correctly or even respond back when you are having an issue.

by Leboss12345678901246

I like Bravo because episodes are uploaded quickly but the glitches really put me off. I constantly lose my place because Bravo just randomly goes into commercials. Sometimes I’ll have watched 3 commercials, the show glitches back on for 3 mins and then again more commercials. You can’t skip or try to go back to where you were because Bravo will constantly take you back to the place it glitches on. There is always playback errors regardless of having good internet connection. I also really dislike how the “bonus” episodes are included in the regular season. You always have to be digging for your next episode instead of it flowing right into it because it’ll flow into a bonus ep instead. It’s not an effective app at all.

by 1calzam1

this app Shows are great to watch on Bravo if I happen to miss it on tv when it first aired. It’s always been great to use Bravo , until recently!

I watched a missed show about two weeks ago and while watching, the audio cuts out for a sec and then comes back, then it’ll be a few minutes to seconds and it’ll do it again causing you to miss what’s being said making it hard to follow what’s going on with the show. Like watching someone talking with hiccups!

Here it is two weeks later and the problem still exists. The last time I watched a show on it, two weeks ago, when it was doing it, I thought they would have gotten the issued fixed by now but it hasn’t and it’s worse!

I’ve done speed tests of my WiFi and it’s great and all other streaming apps have no issues, so I’m thinking it’s an issue with Bravo and hopefully it can be fixed. I’m using my iPad Pro with the most current software update when using Bravo . If this can be fixed, it’ll be a 5 Star app for sure!! Thanks!

by Maggiemae0808

Constantly shutting down. App only works on my phone or tablet, it will come up on my fire stick but shuts down numerous times during one show. It normally takes me about 2 hours to get through one 45 min episode, especially if I have to pause it for any reason, after pausing, it won’t let me play so I have to exit out, restart Bravo and then fast forward to where I was, which means having to watch all the commercials again 🙄🤦🏻‍♀️ I do like the new platform though, it’s a lot easier to navigate so great job on that! Now if yall can just get it to stop shutting down, it would be on point.

by Vanessa From RI

Loving all the real housewives this year…the reunions are fierce n loving every moment of it…best entertainment since before Covid…never watched summer house but winter house is amazing will definitely be watching summer house from the beginning now…also love Southern Charm the OG’s (shout out to Craig he’s hysterical)…prob why i started watching winter house but Kyle is worth starting summer house also hysterical…vanderpump rules ur all slaying it this year without most of the originals I thought it would be lacking but Tom and Tom make me laugh the whole time and James is just a given!!! (Lala I rooted for u girl in all the past seasons but a lil less judgmental like ur real friends were n a lil more supportive…especially if she’s ur friend n u think somethings REALLY wrong)…super big shout out to Andy Cohen who is killing it at the reunions this year with his questions please keep asking these women for the real tea you are AMAZING (just keepin it real)…this app is the best of the best n my sisters n I (there’s 5 of us) watch religiously every night n then talk about it all day the following day! Thank you from my mother who’s a sweet lil Portuguese woman n says we are the Kardashian sisters n she’s poor Kris Jenner just trying to survive wit all these girls! Lol n Thank you to All of this app behind the scenes especially!!! P.s. Also almost forgot my shahs love them all but still team MJ! Lol

by PenelopeJ$$

You guys must have heard something that I missed somewhere. If I wanted to protect my husband, who is a high profile attorney and elderly plus did not sign on to the show, I wouldn’t have said anything about a head injury, etc. I don’t understand the, son thing, flipping a car and snow, what happened but he’s ok that’s all that matters. Plus with him being as old as he is I wouldn’t have wanted him put under to fix his ankle bc that would have hit the news. But maybe it’s bc she is my favorite but regardless. I don’t think she had any idea over the fraudulent chargers being brought against him. She probably signed papers not knowing what they were for. Plus, would you or anyone get on national tv and say my husband is 80 but he has 3 mistresses? I wouldn’t. I would do what she did has done talked about how wonderful things were so the women in question know I’m not going anywhere any time soon. But imagine what it does to your self esteem being young and beautiful yet you still wasn’t enough to keep him at home. The Boyfriend thing? I hope she has a dozen of them you go girl!!! But what we as fans should realize is she could have quit the show but didn’t. But we have to realize all these questions we ask SHE CANNOT ANSWER bc it can and will be used against her. So, cut her a little, no how about a lot of slack. I would say she was advised to quit but she sucked it up, put her big girl panties on and stayed. Thank you for showing up for your fans Erica!!!

by Samanthafalcon

I love Bravo ! It has some of my favorite shows on it and I watch them allll the time. If you can, I really recommend connecting your app to your tv provider because otherwise its hard to watch episodes.

I used to watch this app on my television before I got Bravo and so I never had the old update which was apparently a lot better than the current update, but I really like the current update!! It looks really cool and it makes all of the shows look really interesting.

The only thing that does bother me is how many ads there are in one episode. I would honestly be fine with how many ads there are if they at least changed them up every once in a while but I literally know the dialogue of some of the ads because of how many times they’ve come up.

by Kamy R.

I’ve been committed to this app since the network started and love basically every show! Seriously, I love this app. However, my main issue with Bravo is the consistent glitches when viewing episodes. Sometimes if you pause the video you can lose your spot you stopped the episode at. My internet connection isn’t an issue but for whatever reason, sometimes the videos pause and take long to load. There’s too many commercials. I can handle like one to two ads but don’t make them two minutes a piece or like 5 different ads. I purposely use apps to avoid commercials. I love how the new episodes are quickly up on Bravo . Side note, it’d be really helpful to have the “Behind the Scenes/Never Before Seen” episodes in a separate category rather than with the season episodes. I get annoyed having to dig through the episodes looking for the NEW episode. Thanks this app, for breaking me away from my reality to focus on someone else’s problems and drama :)

by Lorene48

I love this app but I have a question. Why does Erica lie? And if she wants to threaten me, go ahead Erica. She originally told Kyle one day that her husband went on a curvy road on his way home and missed the curve and went over the cliff but I guess tree stopped him and he hurt his ankle. Then she tells them another story that he was unconscious for 12 or 24 hrs, I forget and hurt his head and they wanted to fix his ankle and she wouldn’t let them because of his head injury. Her story sure changes. Then she tells her son to go check on him and he flipped 5 times in the snow. California has snow in the mountains and if he was in the mountains, why didn’t Erica go? Lately she seems to lie a lot. Also, why did her mascara run when she met Kyle to talk?
I’ve never notice that before. I believe she wanted Kyle to really see those tears good so she got the not waterproof mascara to show those tears. I also after she moved out, I read where she was spotted out with a man they said is her boyfriend. She just needs to write down ahead what she is going to say to keep her stories straight. Thanks for letting me blow off some steam.

Lorene

by Hops2

I honestly do not know if I’m writing on the right venue for a rating. I’m not use to doing all this online rating stuff etc. What I want to say ( and not that it matters at all to anyone)...but for me and I believe other ladies...the true perception of Irami, Brit...everyone was phenomunmial..We got your truth....the real you and that’s what helps us to relate to you as your fans....even you Dr. Britt...not havin your husband in bed but instead your kids? Many women go thru this so to see it on you show is amazing. I feel this show allows women to see what it like to go thru something bad but but that you have true girlfriends to help you Thur it. I did not find that on married to medicine Atlanta. Hen Dr. Jackie or Quad went thru indifntely that true girls were there. I did not feel that, bit on LA I feel it

by Delphie

If you love to watch mind numbing commercials for things you have zero interest in then you’ll love Bravo. It feels like it takes forever to watch a single episode because of all the commercials. Keep up with the times this app. No one likes watching back to back commercials. And it’s the SAME COMMERCIALS over and over and over. It’s like someone is almost trying to deter fans from using Bravo .

2nd review: Who designed Bravo? Complete garbage. I spend more time signing in and watching crappy ads than anything else. It’s so irritating. Is the goal of Bravo to annoy people? Here, I’ll contribute. Why not include a random high pitched alarm that goes off every 5 secs and then automatically triggers every night at 3am without an off button.

by Hollycradd

I had problems with Bravo last year when trying to catch up on summer house, and I just went to watch the Pump Rules special and I’m shocked Bravo is so bad. I have an iPhone 7 that works fine with other streaming apps so I don’t understand why this app’s is so bad. I try to chromecast and the commercials sound starts playing 30 sec before the episode is supposed to go to commercial. Then the sound doesn’t match their mouths when it goes back to the show. I tried closing out Bravo and it wasn’t even showing I was casting anymore. I had to close out again to be able to disconnect the cast and start it up again, and then the whole thing happened two more times. For a 23 min episode! Absolutely unacceptable. Will not be using Bravo in the future.

by Smavitz

The this app app and website eventually send you to upgrade your cable service or buy the full episodes on iTunes... No full episodes - only previews on either platform.

I downloaded Bravo , you have to link to your cable provider, no problem, I do that with other tv apps. Then learn you need to upgrade to your service with your provider. You know like buying the NFL channel for the football season. Switched to the this app website on the computer that runs our TV viewing. Online there are hundreds of links to all of their shows. Jackpot, until you learn you only can see a bunch of ads before you get 2 minute previews. No full episodes are available... unless you link to iTunes and buy a full episode. For the Love of God this app! If you don’t want us watching your shows just tell us right off the bat to go to iTunes and buy the shows.

by Zinderella123

I can’t imagine why such a great network can’t get their app to work better. It is full of so many bugs. I guess the network just figures they have a captive audience and doesn’t need to work too hard to fix what should be easy! Things like when I minimize on my iPad to watch PIP: when I go to maximize the picture again, I have to exit and restart. Or how often I have to sign in again because it doesn’t recognize the same exact device I always use. Or how I have to exit Bravo and restart to get the Latest Episodes to load. Come on guys... all of the other channels get it right. And it isn’t as if there aren’t a million terrible commercials, you should be able to hire a decent programmer. Need a recommendation, this app? My web designer can fix you up in seconds!

by Ameliah2418

It feels like if it’s not one thing it’s another. Right now the sounds keeps cutting in and out of Bravo on my iPad and that’s after uninstalling and reinstalling over 5 times. It’s working for the time being on my phone. Bravo sometimes won’t continue casting to my chromecast without Bravo being open without ever locking the screen while the show is playing. When Bravo works I really like it but it doesn’t work often enough that it really irritates me sometimes to even attempt to watch anything. Their customer service responds quick but they suggest essentially the exact same things I’ve already done and they admitted that they’ve had several people reach out about the same issue.

by Smdmeow

I recently downloaded Bravo because my boyfriends tv refused to record below deck. Just that show! All other were recorded. I had been there for a month and my friend suggested Bravo . I got it and caught up on my 3 shows, which it only allowed because of course I don’t remember my password for my cable. But now I’m just trying to watch clips and half of them don’t load. And somewhere before I used to watch “watch what happens” and after show clips. Guess I’ll check out the website again. Just thought it would be here. Btw- don’t bring Ashley back on south charm. Who am I kidding, that was hilarious and entertaining. Keep that little fruit cake coming back. I’m sure she’ll work for free! #desperate.

by Bravoislife

The new platform is nice. I like the look of the update, and I think it is much better than the old one. The performance issues have got to stop. It’s driving me insane! I was shocked with the new platform the performance issues are similar if not worse then previous. Closed captions, pausing, fast forward, rewind.... don’t even get me started on the “buffering”. I am pretty much afraid to touch the controller when using Bravo . It also takes me twice as long to get through an episode, that is if Bravo decides to play through. Sometimes I have to close Bravo for the day and try again they next day. Not cool. this app please get your IT team together and fix it!!!!!

by Psella

Which genius decided this app needed to update Bravo for the worse? Makes no sense. The home page looks chaotic...the old design was simpler and easier to see what shows are available to watch.

What’s truly annoying is now Bravo freezes half the time when you try to pause during a show. It lags & sometimes Bravo crashes. Never had this problem before the update. Why make something worse? At least the pop-up window wanting me to use free credits isn’t coming up lately...seriously, that is annoying because I have a tv provider.

by JhjjpsK

I love being able to watch project runway on my tablet: it is so convenient. However, what happened to rewind? Sometimes the option to rewind is available and other times it is not. Also, (sometimes) if I pause the streaming and try to resume from where I left off, it doesn’t let me: I have to restart the episode from the very beginning. The glitches do not stop me from streaming, heck no, streaming PR is way better than watching the show on the television.

by MadiChamber

Prior to the recent update, Bravo frustrated me A LOT! It would not hold my place if I didn’t watch a show completely so I would have to go back into the episode and scroll through to find where I left off and watch all the commercials again. Sometimes it wouldn’t recognize my TV provider. The list goes on.

Since the update though, I’m loving it! Love the new look. Remembers where I pause in shows. I like how there are other shows available to watch from sister networks. So far so good! Hope the honeymoon phase doesn’t end!

by Angie78mc

I love being able to watch the shows I love, but my confusion comes from the credit aspect. I have 3 credits, and I can not get anymore? I mean if you want me to buy credits to watch my shows, I get that. But why can’t I get more credits? I could use my 3 credits tonight to be honest, every single show I clicked on said I was about to use a credit. So I’m just confused as to what’s the point of having credits if you have to use them to watch a show, but can’t buy them or obtain more other then during special promotions.