A Reality Check for Beauty Salons on the Edge of Failure
NY Times, By Anita Gates Vivian Zink Tabatha Coffey with a client, on “Salon Takeover.” All the superheroes aren’t in the multiplex, you know. Just watch Tabatha Coffey striding down the sidewalk, dressed in black, human vulnerabilities hidden by sunglasses. See her take a failing beauty salon and turn it around with superhuman sureness. That confidence is part of the appeal of “Tabatha’s Salon Takeover,” which has its premiere on Bravo on Thursday night. Like Jo Frost, the star of ABC’s “Supernanny,” who barges into households with out-of-control children and shapes them up, along with their inept parents, the unfailingly blunt Ms. Coffey will spend each episode of her series turning around a failing enterprise. (Or, if she deems the business hopeless, she’ll just shut it down.)