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Andy Cohen is simply a engaged man.
The big of Watch What Happens Live and executive shaper of The Real Housewives franchise, Cohen is bobbing and weaving from 1 reality beingness to nan different successful galore different forms.
But ultimately, it’s each successful work of Bravo, nan web wherever he was antecedently an executive.
Kicking disconnected Deadline’s Reality TV Summit connected Friday, Cohen sat down to talk his various ventures, dished connected imaginable caller Housewives bid and talked up his emotion of crippled shows.
“The ecosystem of Bravo is an unthinkable point that conscionable benignant of aforesaid generates and keeps going. Sometimes we’re successful beforehand of it, and sometimes we’re keeping up pinch it, but we’re ever feeding it, and we’re ever successful nan mediate of it. I deliberation it suits everything we do,” he said.
On 1 manus there’s a plethora of Real Housewives shows successful nan U.S., including nan precocious launched deed The Real Housewives of Rhode Island, and connected nan different location are galore shows that Cohen dives into for reunions specified arsenic Summer House.
“Everything is successful nan Bravo sphere, and they’re each coming done nan Bravo clubhouse. This ecosystem it conscionable keeps generating. I’m a portion of that, and I for illustration stoking nan occurrence successful each direction. The occurrence of Summer House aliases Vanderpump Rules, aliases immoderate show connected Bravo, including nan Housewives, is only going to beryllium a use for Watch What Happens Live and nan reunions and thing else. My job, nan measurement I spot it is to thief make Bravo arsenic successful arsenic it tin be,” he added.
Cohen called nan reunion specials nan “Super Bowl for each series”. “They’re incredibly stimulating to nutrient and beryllium successful nan mediate of,” he said.
The Real Housewives of Rhode Island has go Bravo’s biggest multiplatform bid premiere since 2024.
“No 1 saw Salt Lake City coming, and now it’s nan location of a reality TV, it’s huge. No 1 saw Potomac coming either. We’re taking these communities that possibly you’ve ne'er thought astir successful a definite measurement earlier and sparkling a ray connected them. Rhode Island, listen, here’s nan point astir Roadies, you don’t f*ck pinch them,” he laughed.
There person been attempts to formed a Real Housewives successful Chicago and Napa and Cohen was peculiarly excited astir a type successful Boca Raton, Florida. “We had a formed successful Boca once, and it was going to beryllium for illustration a Golden Girls Housewives that I really wanted to do, that I sewage voted down on,” he said. “There was a assortment of misha goss astir that one, but nan formed has to beryllium right. The barroom is truthful precocious that you tin return it to nan slope that if we are going to denote a caller Housewives, it’s going to beryllium great.”
Similarly, he is hopeful for a return to Miami.
During nan panel, he paid tribute to his erstwhile leader Lauren Zalaznick arsenic good arsenic Amy Introcaso-Davis, who gave Scott Dunlop’s original portion to him and Shari Levine.
He added that nan biggest alteration complete nan past 20 years has been nan breaking of nan 4th wall.
“I retrieve successful play 2 of Orange County, wherever nan women went to a normal halfway wherever Lauri [Peterson] aliases Jeana [Keough] aliases 1 of them was appearing there, and I was like, wait, but they’re appearing location because they’re connected nan show. These women are housewives successful Orange County and we don’t represent them arsenic being celebrated aliases connected television. Well, that’s changed each of reality.”
Cohen himself has go a star, joking that nan only clip that he has felt for illustration Elvis was astatine Bravocon. “Not strung retired Elvis, achromatic leather sound Elvis,” he joked.
He besides utilized to big crippled shows including 2 seasons of Fox’s Love Connection. He said that he’s a large crippled show fan. “I emotion those shiny level shows. It was for illustration being wrong a video crippled hosting Love Connection. That was benignant of nan bullseye show for me, because I sewage to question and reply these couples who went connected these either horrible dates aliases awesome dates, and beryllium like, did you slumber together? How acold did you go? I mean, it was conscionable nan level of intrusive questions, which is my hallmark. This is nan cleanable crippled show, and they’re someway winning money. That was great,” he added.
Would he for illustration to big much crippled shows aliases astatine slightest create some? Cohen said that he has a “fairly insular focus” connected Bravo; he still runs his Most Talkative Productions banner, which has a first-look pinch nan network, and has a “bunch” of shows successful development.
But he did admit that location is simply a world wherever Cohen whitethorn nutrient a show for a different web aliases streamer. “I mean, who knows,” he said. “I person a first-look woody pinch Bravo, which would person to opportunity we don’t want to make this show. So, if Bravo said we don’t want to make this show, and personification other did. Then, that’s really that works.”
