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Summer House (2017 TV series)

American reality television series that premiered on the Bravo Network

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ28443733
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Summer House is an American reality television series that premiered on January 9, 2017, on Bravo. The series follows a group of friends who share a summer house in the Hamptons town of Southampton, New York. The friends work in the city during the week and travel to the Hamptons on the weekends.

The first season consisted of original cast members: Kyle Cooke, Cristina Gibson, Lindsay Hubbard, Stephen McGee, Carl Radke, Jaclyn Shuman, Everett Weston, Ashley Wirkus and Lauren Wirkus, serving in a recurring capacity. The cast for the tenth season includes Batula, Cooke, Hubbard, Radke, Ciara Miller, West Wilson, Jesse Solomon, Mia Calabrese, KJ Dillard, Dara Levitan, Levi Sebree, Bailey Taylor and Ben Waddell.

The success of the show has resulted in three spin-offs: Winter House, Summer House: Martha's Vineyard, and In the City. In July 2026, streaming service Hayu announced a Canadian installment of Summer House, the series' first international adaptation, set to premiere in 2027.

Overview

2017–2020

The first season premiered on January 9, 2017. Kyle Cooke, Cristina Gibson, Lindsay Hubbard, Stephen McGee, Carl Radke, Jaclyn Shuman, Everett Weston, Ashley Wirkus, and Lauren Wirkus were introduced as cast members.

The tenth episode of the fifth season of Vanderpump Rules titled "Summer House Rules" served as a cross-over preview to Summer House.

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The public source identifies “Summer House (2017 TV series)” as american reality television series that premiered on the Bravo Network. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Summer, House and series.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2017, 2026, 2027, 2020—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Summer, House and series providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from Summer House (2017 TV series)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.