Andy Cohen (television personality)
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Andy Cohen is an American
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 television
Television
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 executive
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 and host. He is currently the Executive Vice-President Original Programming and Development at the Bravo cable television
Cable television
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 network, a subsidiary of NBC Universal. He has held that position since December 2010.

Cohen is responsible for overseeing the network's current development and production slate of over two dozen shows, including hits such as the Emmy and James Beard award-winning Top Chef
Top Chef
Top Chef is an American reality competition show that airs on the cable television network Bravo, in which chefs compete against each other in culinary challenges. They are judged by a panel of professional chefs and other notables from the food and wine industry with one or more contestants...

, The Real Housewives
The Real Housewives of Orange County
The Real Housewives of Orange County is a reality television program on the Bravo network. It is the first and seminal installation in the The Real Housewives of... series...

franchise, The Millionaire Matchmaker, Million Dollar Listing
Million Dollar Listing
Million Dollar Listing is an American reality series that first aired on the Bravo television network. The show follows real estate agents based in Hollywood and Malibu, California selling high-end properties. The series, presented in one-hour episodes, gives viewers an inside look at the world of...

, The Rachel Zoe Project
The Rachel Zoe Project
The Rachel Zoe Project is an American reality docudrama series starring celebrity stylist, Rachel Zoe, and her styling assistants, Taylor Jacobson and Brad Goreski. The series premiered on September 9, 2008 on the Bravo television network...

, The Fashion Show
The Fashion Show
The Fashion Show is a British television programme which debuted on ITV2 on 11 September 2008. The programme was originally titled The Fashion Project....

, and Flipping Out
Flipping Out
Flipping Out is a reality television series that debuted on July 31, 2007 on Bravo in the United States and HGTV in Canada. Subsequently, it debuted on cable network Arena in Australia on September 4, 2009. For the first season it also re-aired on sister network CNBC...

. Cohen also hosts the network's reunion shows and its topical weekly show Watch What Happens Live.

Professional background

Cohen started at Bravo in 2005 as Senior Vice President of Original Programming & Development and since then he has overseen an aggressive slate of unscripted series and specials including past hits -- the Peabody Award
Peabody Award
The George Foster Peabody Awards recognize distinguished and meritorious public service by radio and television stations, networks, producing organizations and individuals. In 1939, the National Association of Broadcasters formed a committee to recognize outstanding achievement in radio broadcasting...

-winning Project Runway
Project Runway
Project Runway is an American reality television series on Lifetime Television, previously on the Bravo network, which focuses on fashion design and is hosted by model Heidi Klum. The contestants compete with each other to create the best clothes and are restricted in time, materials and theme...

, Queer Eye
Queer Eye
Queer Eye is an American reality television series that premiered on the Bravo cable television network in July 2003. The program's name was changed from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy after the third season to broaden the scope of its content...

, Work Out
Work Out
Work Out was a reality television series on Bravo. The show was centered around Jackie Warner, owner of a gym and spa in Beverly Hills, California. It features many of the trainers who work for Warner, aspects of the gym and its clients and Jackie's other fitness ventures, and also covers aspects...

, Being Bobby Brown
Being Bobby Brown
Being Bobby Brown is a reality series that depicted the life of R&B singer Bobby Brown and his then-wife, singer Whitney Houston, and their family. The series debuted on the Bravo channel on June 30, 2005, and became very highly rated, and restored a degree of celebrity to Bobby Brown...

, Top Design
Top Design
Top Design is an American reality television series. Interior designers compete to win cash and receive a spot in New York's Designer showcases....

, Make Me a Supermodel
Make Me a Supermodel
Make Me a Supermodel may refer to:*Make Me a Supermodel , the original British version aired on Five*Make Me a Supermodel , the American version on Bravo **Make Me a Supermodel ...

, Blow Out
Blow Out
Blow Out is a 1981 thriller film, written and directed by Brian De Palma. The film stars John Travolta as Jack Terry, a movie sound effects technician from Philadelphia who, while recording sounds for a low-budget slasher film, serendipitously captures audio evidence of an assassination involving a...

, and Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List
Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List
Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List is a reality show starring Kathy Griffin. The series aired on Bravo. It debuted in August 2005, and was cancelled in November 2010....

.

Previously, Cohen was Vice President of Original Programming for TRIO (pop, culture, TV), beginning in July 2000. He was responsible for developing and supervising all of TRIO's original productions including the critically acclaimed original documentaries Gay Republicans, Easy Riders/Raging Bulls, Brilliant, But Cancelled, and the critically lauded original series Pilot Season, 24w/ and Parking Lot.

Cohen received an Emmy award when Season 6 of Top Chef won the Outstanding Reality Competition Program at the 2010 primetime Emmy awards and has been nominated for nine additional Emmy Awards as Executive Producer of Project Greenlight, Project Runway, Top Chef and Queer Eye. In 2005, Cohen was awarded a Peabody Award for his role as Executive Producer of the TRIO documentary The N Word and another in 2008 as an Executive Producer of Project Runway. He has been featured regularly on The Today Show
The Today Show
Today is an iconic American morning news and talk show airing every morning on NBC. Debuting on January 14, 1952, it was the first of its genre on American television and in the world. The show is also the fourth-longest running American television series...

and Joy Behar.

In 2009 he appeared on the cover of The Advocate
The Advocate
The Advocate is an American LGBT-interest magazine, printed monthly and available by subscription. The Advocate brand also includes a web site. Both magazine and web site have an editorial focus on news, politics, opinion, and arts and entertainment of interest to LGBT people...

and was profiled in New York Magazine, The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...

, the Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....

, and Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly is an American magazine, published by the Time division of Time Warner, that covers film, television, music, broadway theatre, books and popular culture...

.

In June 2010, he was listed as one of TV Guide
TV Guide
TV Guide is a weekly American magazine with listings of TV shows.In addition to TV listings, the publication features television-related news, celebrity interviews, gossip and film reviews and crossword puzzles...

's
"25 Most Influential People in Television." OUT Magazine put Cohen on their OUT 100 List in 2008, and named him "hottest blogger of 2006" in their annual "hot" issue and in 2007, Cohen was named one of Multichannel News’ "40 Under 40" innovative and formative executives at work today.

Prior to working at TRIO, Cohen spent 10 years at CBS News', where he last served as Senior Producer of The Early Show
The Early Show
The Early Show is an American television morning news talk show broadcast by CBS from New York City. The program airs live from 7 to 9 a.m. Eastern Time Monday through Friday; most affiliates in the Central, Mountain, and Pacific time zones air the show on tape-delay from 7 to 9 a.m. local time. ...

, overseeing the production of entertainment segments. Cohen also served as a producer for CBS News' 48 Hours
48 Hours
48 Hours may refer to:* 48 Hours , a documentary and news television program* 48 Hrs., a 1982 comedy and action film, starring Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy* Another 48 Hrs., the sequel to the 1982 comedy/action film...

and for CBS This Morning, where he covered breaking news including the Oklahoma City bombing, Hurricane Andrew, the California wildfires, and the crash of TWA Flight 800, and produced live segments and celebrity profiles.

Cohen was born in St. Louis
St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis is an independent city on the eastern border of Missouri, United States. With a population of 319,294, it was the 58th-largest U.S. city at the 2010 U.S. Census. The Greater St...

. He is a graduate of Boston University
Boston University
Boston University is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. With more than 4,000 faculty members and more than 31,000 students, Boston University is one of the largest private universities in the United States and one of Boston's largest employers...

, where he received a B.A. degree in broadcast journalism.

Current positions with NBC Universal

Cohen is billed as an executive producer or co-producer on the following programs:
  • Bethenny Getting Married?
    Bethenny Getting Married?
    Bethenny Ever After..., titled Bethenny Getting Married? in the first season, is an American reality television program on the Bravo cable TV network. It is a spin-off of the Bravo series The Real Housewives of New York City from the The Real Housewives of... franchise...

  • The Fashion Show
    The Fashion Show
    The Fashion Show is a British television programme which debuted on ITV2 on 11 September 2008. The programme was originally titled The Fashion Project....

  • Flipping Out
    Flipping Out
    Flipping Out is a reality television series that debuted on July 31, 2007 on Bravo in the United States and HGTV in Canada. Subsequently, it debuted on cable network Arena in Australia on September 4, 2009. For the first season it also re-aired on sister network CNBC...

  • Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List
    Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List
    Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List is a reality show starring Kathy Griffin. The series aired on Bravo. It debuted in August 2005, and was cancelled in November 2010....

  • Make Me a Supermodel
    Make Me a Supermodel (U.S. TV series)
    Make Me a Supermodel was an American reality television modeling competition series based on the British reality series of the same name. Following an audition preview on January 2, 2008, the series premiered January 10 on the cable television network Bravo...

  • The Millionaire Matchmaker
  • NYC Prep
    NYC Prep
    NYC Prep was a reality television program on the Bravo channel. It followed six Manhattan teenagers in their daily lives as they attended events such as weekend parties, fashion shows, shopping sprees, charity events and dinner parties...

  • Project Runway
    Project Runway
    Project Runway is an American reality television series on Lifetime Television, previously on the Bravo network, which focuses on fashion design and is hosted by model Heidi Klum. The contestants compete with each other to create the best clothes and are restricted in time, materials and theme...

  • Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
  • The Rachel Zoe Project
    The Rachel Zoe Project
    The Rachel Zoe Project is an American reality docudrama series starring celebrity stylist, Rachel Zoe, and her styling assistants, Taylor Jacobson and Brad Goreski. The series premiered on September 9, 2008 on the Bravo television network...

  • The Real Housewives of Atlanta
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta
    The Real Housewives of Atlanta is an American reality television series on the Bravo cable network that premiered in the fall of 2008. Following the format of its predecessors , in 2009 the Atlanta series was not only the highest rated show of the The Real Housewives of... franchise, it was the...

  • The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills
    The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills
    The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills is an American reality series for the Bravo cable network. The sixth installment in the network's The Real Housewives of... franchise, production for the Evolution Media series began in March 2010. The show premiered on October 14, 2010...

  • The Real Housewives of DC
  • The Real Housewives of Miami
    The Real Housewives of Miami
    The Real Housewives of Miami is a reality series for the Bravo cable network. The seventh and latest installment in the network's The Real Housewives of... franchise officially premiered on February 22, 2011...

  • The Real Housewives of New Jersey
    The Real Housewives of New Jersey
    The Real Housewives of New Jersey is a reality television program on the Bravo network which originally followed the lives of five women in and around several upscale communities in Northern New Jersey...

  • The Real Housewives of New York City
    The Real Housewives of New York City
    The Real Housewives of New York City is an American reality television program on the Bravo cable TV network, a spin-off of the Bravo series The Real Housewives of Orange County. New York is the second city featured in The Real Housewives of... franchise...

  • The Real Housewives of Orange County
    The Real Housewives of Orange County
    The Real Housewives of Orange County is a reality television program on the Bravo network. It is the first and seminal installation in the The Real Housewives of... series...

  • Shear Genius
    Shear Genius
    Shear Genius is an American reality television series on the Bravo network that focuses on hair styling. The show first premiered on April 11, 2007....

  • Step It Up and Dance
    Step It Up and Dance
    Step It Up and Dance was a reality television competition series where contestants are supposed to "learn what it takes to make it big in the cutthroat dance industry". Actress and dancer Elizabeth Berkley serves as host, and director and choreographer Jerry Mitchell mentors the 12 dancers chosen...

  • Tabatha's Salon Takeover
    Tabatha's Salon Takeover
    Tabatha's Salon Takeover is an American reality television series on the Bravo network, in which former Shear Genius contestant and hair salon owner, Tabatha Coffey helps failing salons turn around in one week...

  • Thintervention with Jackie Warner
  • Tim Gunn's Guide to Style
    Tim Gunn's Guide to Style
    Tim Gunn's Guide to Style is an American reality television series, hosted by Project Runway's Tim Gunn and cohosted by model Veronica Webb in the first season, and cohosted by Gretta Monahan in subsequent seasons. It focuses on style and fashion. The first episode aired on September 6, 2007 on the...

  • Top Chef
    Top Chef
    Top Chef is an American reality competition show that airs on the cable television network Bravo, in which chefs compete against each other in culinary challenges. They are judged by a panel of professional chefs and other notables from the food and wine industry with one or more contestants...

  • Top Chef Just Desserts
  • Top Chef Masters
    Top Chef Masters
    Top Chef Masters is an American reality competition show currently broadcast on the cable television network Bravo. It is a spinoff of Bravo's hit show Top Chef. In the series, 24 world-renowned chefs compete against each other in weekly challenges...

  • Top Design
    Top Design
    Top Design is an American reality television series. Interior designers compete to win cash and receive a spot in New York's Designer showcases....

  • Work Out
    Work Out
    Work Out was a reality television series on Bravo. The show was centered around Jackie Warner, owner of a gym and spa in Beverly Hills, California. It features many of the trainers who work for Warner, aspects of the gym and its clients and Jackie's other fitness ventures, and also covers aspects...



He also handles unscripted (“reality”) series and specials, such as the following:
  • Battle of the Network Reality Stars
    Battle of the Network Reality Stars
    Battle of the Network Reality Stars is a television series that aired on the Bravo channel in the US in August and September 2005. Based on the popular 1970s and 1980s television competition Battle of the Network Stars, the show consisted of thirty-three competitors from several different reality...

  • Being Bobby Brown
    Being Bobby Brown
    Being Bobby Brown is a reality series that depicted the life of R&B singer Bobby Brown and his then-wife, singer Whitney Houston, and their family. The series debuted on the Bravo channel on June 30, 2005, and became very highly rated, and restored a degree of celebrity to Bobby Brown...

  • Blow Out
    Blow Out (TV series)
    Blow Out was a reality television series that first premiered on the Bravo cable television network in 2004, with a second season broadcasting in 2005. The first season revolved around the construction and launch of Jonathan Salon in Beverly Hills, an upscale Los Angeles hair salon...

  • Celebrity Poker Showdown
    Celebrity Poker Showdown
    Celebrity Poker Showdown was a celebrity game show on the cable network Bravo. It was a limited-run series in which celebrities played poker, and ran eight tournaments during its five-season run....

  • Showdog Moms and Dads


Cohen is also a blog
Blog
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ger on pop culture, television
Television
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, media
Mass media
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, and his own daily life, at the following sites:

He is the host of Watch What Happens Live, Bravo's first live topical talk show, plus 30 episodes of Bravotv.com's live streaming online program, and has hosted many highly rated reunion shows on Bravo TV, including:
  • "20 Most Outrageous Bravo Moments"
  • "Flipping Out: Watch What Happens Special" - 2
  • "The Real Housewives Confess"- NYC/Atlanta/New Jersey
  • "The Real Housewives of Orange County: Watch What Happens Special"
  • "Shear Genius: Watch What Happens Special"
  • "Top Chef: Watch What Happens Special" - 2
  • "Work Out" Reunion Show
  • "Miss USA 2011
    Miss USA 2011
    Miss USA 2011, the 60th anniversary of the Miss USA pageant, was held at the Theatre for the Performing Arts in Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada on Sunday, June 19, 2011. Miss USA 2010, Rima Fakih of Michigan crowned her successor, Alyssa Campanella of California, at the end...

    " Beauty Pageant


He is a recurring commentator on CNN
CNN
Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...

 and other media outlets as a pop culture pundit for Bravo. He hosted Miss Universe 2011
Miss Universe 2011
Miss Universe 2011, the 60th anniversary of the Miss Universe pageant, was held at the Credicard Hall in São Paulo, Brazil on September 12, 2011. Ximena Navarrete of Mexico crowned her successor, Leila Lopes of Angola, at the end of this event...

 on September 12, 2011 at Credicard Hall in Sao Paulo
São Paulo
São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...

, Brazil
Brazil
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, and has co-hosted Live with Regis & Kelly on ABC-TV
ABC-TV
ABC-TV can refer to:*American Broadcasting Company, a radio and television network in the United States*Australian Broadcasting Corporation's ABC Television network**ABC , the ABC television station in Canberra...

.

Previous NBC assignments

Cohen was previously vice president of original programming for TRIO
Trio (TV network)
Trio was an American cable and satellite television network.Trio went on the air in 1997, then originally owned and operated jointly by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and Power Broadcasting Inc. as a venue for airing the CBC's arts, culture and entertainment programming in the U.S...

, another NBC Universal outlet, beginning in July 2000. Original productions under his supervision at TRIO included:
  • 24w/
  • Brilliant, But Cancelled
  • Easy Riders/Raging Bulls
  • Gay Republicans
  • Parking Lot
  • PeterPeter
  • Pilot Season

Before NBC Universal

  • CBS News
    CBS News
    CBS News is the news division of American television and radio network CBS. The current chairman is Jeff Fager who is also the executive producer of 60 Minutes, while the current president of CBS News is David Rhodes. CBS News' flagship program is the CBS Evening News, hosted by the network's main...

    :
    • Senior producer for The Early Show
      The Early Show
      The Early Show is an American television morning news talk show broadcast by CBS from New York City. The program airs live from 7 to 9 a.m. Eastern Time Monday through Friday; most affiliates in the Central, Mountain, and Pacific time zones air the show on tape-delay from 7 to 9 a.m. local time. ...

    • Producer for 48 Hours
      48 Hours (TV series)
      48 Hours is a documentary and news program broadcast on the CBS television network since January 19, 1988. The program originally presented documentaries of various events related to a particular subject occurring within a 48-hour period, and is credited as one of the first to air a "reality show"...

      and CBS This Morning

Education

  • Cohen is an alumnus of the Boston University College of Communication (1990).
  • He was graduated from Clayton High School
    Clayton High School (Missouri)
    Clayton High School is a public high school located in the St. Louis suburb of Clayton, Missouri. It is the only high school within the School District of Clayton.-Accolades:...

     in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1986.

Awards

  • Emmy Award, 2010, as Executive Producer of Outstanding Competitive Reality Series, "Top Chef"
  • Peabody Award
    Peabody Award
    The George Foster Peabody Awards recognize distinguished and meritorious public service by radio and television stations, networks, producing organizations and individuals. In 1939, the National Association of Broadcasters formed a committee to recognize outstanding achievement in radio broadcasting...

    , 2004, as executive producer
    Executive producer
    An executive producer is a producer who is not involved in any technical aspects of the film making or music process, but who is still responsible for the overall production...

     of the TRIO documentary
    Documentary film
    Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

     The N-Word
  • At least nine primetime Emmy Award
    Emmy Award
    An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...

     nominations as executive producer of:
    • Queer Eye for the Straight Guy (nominated in 2005)
    • Project Runway (nominated in 2006/2007/2008)
    • Project Greenlight (nominated in 2005)
    • Top Chef (nominated in 2007/'08/'09/'10)
    • "Kathy Griffin My Life on the D-List" (nominated in '10)
    • In 2010, TV Guide Magazine named Cohen one of the "25 Most Powerful People in Television" (along with Oprah Winfrey, Simon Cowell, Tina Fey, and Jon Stewart)
  • Named “hottest blogger of 2006” by OUT Magazine in their annual “hot” issue
  • Named by Multichannel News one of 2007’s “40 Under 40” innovative and formative executives at work today

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