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What's behind the success of Bravo?RELATED: Bravo’s Andy Cohen Tells CNN About The Time He Was ‘Freeballing’ With Cybill Shepherd
Andy Cohen should know as the programmer behind "Top Chef," the various "Real Housewives" series and his own "Watch What Happens Live." Cohen, a former producer at CBS News, weighed in on the Bravo success story in an interview with Howard Kurtz on CNN's "Reliable Sources" Sunday morning.
In picking programs, Cohen said he looks for "something that hasn't been done before" and a personality different from what viewers have seen.
"If you look at the people who make up the Bravo landscape from Jeff Lewis to Rachel Zoe and Padma Lakshmi and Tabatha Coffey and the 'Millionaire Matchmaker,' these are very strong personalities that people love to watch and that you ... don't see anywhere else," Cohen said.
"In the case of 'The Housewives,' I call the 'Housewives' sociology of the rich," Cohen told Kurtz. "I think it's just fun to watch. It's guilt-free gossiping that you can have. It's like the modern-day soap opera, in my mind."
Do you agree?
Of his own show, Cohen said: "The funny thing is it's a very positive show. And I would never want to embarrass a guest or make them feel like they didn't have a great time. But we try to go there and have fun with people. Absolutely."
Cohen recently published "Most Talkative: Stories from Behind the Lines of Pop Culture."
So basically, Cybill tried to seduce Andy to get a show? How gross!
ReplyDeleteThe sociology of the rich...more like the sociology of the almost poor and grasping,
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely correct. Mostly fake and wanna-be rich posers; Lynne Curtain and Alexis Bellino. Look at actual liqued assets and you'd find very few "rich" people on these shows. Homes mortgaged to the hilt with negative equity and huge consumer credit debt, that's a how most of these lifestyles are funded. This "sociology" is the reason America has become a second rate economic power.
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