Bravo execs who actually were responsible for the success of the franchises were getting pissed off because Cohen would automatically let people assume he was in charge and never corrected them when they thought that. Pretty soon people were wrongly assuming Cohen created and was responsible for the success of Housewives when in fact they were responsible for the success of Andy. His twitter handle was Bravo Andy - he was getting A list guests on the show - he was the conduit to all the celebs to talk about housewives a vice versa. Cohen pitched a weekly show called Watch What Happens live which he tied to Atlanta which aired on Sunday nights. The housewives show took off, NYC, Then Atlanta, and the ratings were huge. He was an exec at Bravo so they naturally talked to him about things thinking he had decision making powers. Cohen was likable and got along with the housewives and ingratiated himself to them. The reunion was called A watch what happens special. At the time Bravo's tag line was Watch what happens. The show was a hit after season two they decided to so a studio reunion, Cohen offered to host for free. The first reunion was shot in Vicki's back yard with no host, just the women sitting around recounting the show. It was originally called behind the gates the real orange county - Bravo passed on the doc - so they retooled it as the Real Housewives of OC adding in Joe and Slade. Scott Dunlop had an idea for a documentary on the women of OC because of his neighbor Vicki Gunvelson - so when she claims to be the OG of the OC - she means it. Offsite Link by AnonymousĪndy landed an exec job at Bravo when the networks were all combined. As far as the houswives shows go, Atlanta is the highest rated housewives franchise. Andy thought he was going to be a big producer and possibly get the LIve host job with Ripa- when that failed, and he realized his show ideas were crap - he renegotiated to extend the WWHL hosting gig. You can go back and check the Bravo annoucements for new shows, one of which was called Teach me your talent, where Andy groomed his replacement for WWHL. Originally when he left, he was supposed to leave everything including WWHL.
Bravo capitulated and gave him an EP title on all housewives shows.
He was offered a route out to save face and he threatened to sue and ruin the franchise. Cohen was fired from Bravo as an executive a long time back. Ramona has been dying to get a few of her friends on but the show always says no. A lot of times they are friends of friends of housewives but they don't really like to cast friends because it leads to cliques. They primarily cast and scout the housewives. Endemol is probably the biggest producer of Reality shows but POP and others are as well. The shows are put together and pitched by external production companies as possible Real Housewives franchises for Bravo. He is not a Bravo Executive, he is an Executive Producer on the shows in name only. Andy Cohen has nothing to do with the casting of these shows.
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