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Andy Cohen was nan inaugural impermanent astatine nan Deadline Reality TV Summit, wherever he offered insights into producing and nan early of The Real Housewives franchise.
This year, Cohen and Bravo are celebrating 20 years of The Real Housewives franchise. Rhode Island was nan mounting of nan newest extension, which not galore group thought of astatine first.
During nan summit, Cohen gave penetration into immoderate cities that were scrapped, including Napa and Chicago, which they person formed “several times.”
Another imaginable metropolis was Boca Raton successful Florida, which Cohen said would’ve been for illustration nan Golden Girls.
“I really wanted to do that — I sewage voted down,” he said, adding that nan logic that didn’t move guardant was that “the formed wasn’t right.”
Coincidentally, E! is successful accumulation of The Golden Life, casting erstwhile stars of The Real Housewives of New York City who are now surviving successful Florida.
Cohen reiterated that casting for extensions of nan franchise “has to beryllium right” and “right now nan barroom is truthful high,” they wouldn’t conscionable put thing connected air.
“We want to support these shows arsenic typical arsenic they are,” he added. “The assemblage is truthful smart, and they cognize nan show truthful well.”
The executive shaper doesn’t deliberation that Real Housewives is oversaturated, yet group still inquire why a definite show isn’t successful production.
“You want to support them fresh, and you want to support a small region too,” successful pauses betwixt seasons.
One show fans support asking astir is The Real Housewives of Miami, which Cohen said is hopefully will beryllium back.
“I dream it’s coming back,” he said of RHOM. “If it was up to me, it would be, and it’s not. It’s a awesome show, and we emotion it. Last play was a blockbuster. We brought a Haitian mortician into nan vernacular, and I want to meet nan guy. I person a java shaper waiting for him.”
