He is a dreamboat !!

This I agree with, the RH franchise has the glamour that soaps can’t afford to show today.

ANDY IS AN IDIOT!!!!!! THERE ARE FOUR DAYTIME SOAPS LEFT ON THE AIR, NOT TWO!!!!!!

Dream on Andy. I have no interest in Real Housewives but I love my daytime soaps. I’ve never watched Real Housewives and never will. I love Eileen Davidson but won’t watch for her either.

Andy’s right…I watch them all!

You may compare them to a primetime soap but those so called housewives you cant compare to daytime unless you air original episodes 5 days a week…then we will talk Andy!!!

Andy you are very annoying my friend, I love my daytime soaps. Real House wives are trashy has beens with plastic faces botox and fake boobs. These woman like the drama, and there 15 minutes of fame. If I want drama and romance I will watch GH and The YOUNG AND The Restless. Andy is cute, but not gorgeous. I am a gay man, smart good looking and a loving wonderful smart boyfriend.

If this guys ego was any more inflated he would float away.

Never watched those types of shows and probably never will. In my opinion watching the “supposed” lives of other people has nothing to do with engrossing yourself in a fictional town with fictional people. A key point would be a level of attachment…I would assume you can “like” or “side” with a reality show person…but you don’t form the attachment that you can develop for a character/characters when you’re a regular viewer of a scripted soap.

You couldn’t pay me to watch Real Housewives of (anywhere). Really, there is no comparison. I could not care less about those shows or the people on them.

NEVER will that CRAP replace a talented cast of actors and gifted writers!

“OH ! how INSULTing”

I won’t even read the article

“…in a weird way”

yep

Serial is the cornerstone of all of daytime

I don’t agree at all! Scripted soaps are way better than these vapid, trashy housewives shows!!

Merriam-Webster defines the word, “housewife” as a MARRIED a woman who stays at home, does cleaning, cooking, etc., and does not have another job outside the home or a MARRIED woman in charge of a household.

So I ask you, where does Brandi Glanville fit in? She is divorced, no?

These woman are a FAR CRY from a “housewife.” That being said, this whole “Real Housewives” franchise amounts to nothing more than the laziness of the world we now live in. Why is reality television so popular? Because people are not sophisticated enough to follow a good, scripted show and, if you need evidence of this, I present to you KEEPING UP WITH THE KARDASHIANS

Hallelujah for cable and network dramas!

I love Andy but his comments were ignorant about soaps. I am a fan of both RH and soaps but they are both scripted which is what Andy should have admitted. NeNe Leakes going to a coffee shop to have an arguement with Kenya Moore is no different then Mariah running into Abby at Crimson Lights on The Young & The Restless. Both shows have producers, editors and actors. One genre is more blatantly honest about what you’re getting yourself into when you tune in.

Um, I thought Housewives was scripted fiction.

When Housewives first started, I thought it was about a group of friends who were housewives (married women who didn’t have outside jobs).

I would rather watch OLTL or AMC.

Bravo’s Andy Cohen, creator of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and all the rest of the “Housewives” series within the franchise//

He needs a ”reality” check .. lol
He knows he is talk junk and he needs to say that , he’s just pushing his show and book.. And BRAVO is not a prime network..

The Real Housewives, is trash …… and is known as trash reality … lol

In a way, he is right. As much as people complain about these shows, they continue to grow and add other cities to their roster. And the fab, over the top parties are only what soaps dream of now. Add the catfighting, glamorous clothes, hunky husbands and exotic trips, and they ARE basically soap operas lol haters can hate, but Nene and Co are laughing all the way to the bank. And they keep it fresh by adding a new housewife here and there every season, so this is true lol

I agree with Andy, the housewife shows are way more entertaining than any trite soap opera. Soaps ran out of new ideas twenty plus years ago. Budget cuts also killed soaps for me, I am not interested in watching endless dreary hospital corridors or other dull sets. Andy wAs a huge soap fan. His first book discussed at length how he and his parents stopped watching soaps, then turned on the TV years later to be disappointed in his fave show, AMC.

I do think that reality television has replaced the soap opera in many ways. It would be stupid to deny. I don’t like that it has though. I hate reality television. I think soaps still offer things that reality television can’t. These shows don’t have any attractive men for one thing.

It is a bit like saying a fast food hamburger is the same thing as steak served at a five star restaurant — sure they are both beef, but a good steak is something you savor, while a burger with its fat and grease is usually eaten quickly because it may taste great on the way down, but your stomach is unsettled for the rest of the day. Same with reality television, it is the junk food of the airwaves— what is next believing porno films should have a category at the Academy Awards?

I understand Andy is promoting his already successful book and “his” Housewives brand, but how egotistical and disrespectful, OK, unmindful. Oh, and if he means the Housewives brand is getting tired and thus is getting more and more scripted and contrived…

The daytime dramas have been carefully constructed with arcs and top writers for decades, the east coast actors are often stage/Broadway artists, the west coast actors have certainly been dedicated to the travails of the field and all take their portrayals seriously. I don’t think daytime soaps are obsolete, just going through a transition, as nothing can replace them. Lastly, how interesting that The Doctors on Retro TV is becoming so popular, those little half hour episodes now airing, circa ’68 are a real revelation.

Andy is delusional. Those tramps on housewives are either real or playing it up for their own reality shows. Soap operas are and art! Eileen should be ashamed to be attached to this garbage!

I find it that he would say that. Half of that mess is scripted. Andy please go sit down somewhere. Soaps are far better than Real Housewives! My mom likes real housewives of Atlanta but would never chose it over a soap. I don’t know why he would say that knowing that they don’t compete against soaps. Just because ED and LR are on the show you think it replaced soaps No. Real housewives to me is a bunch of high school drama. With grown folks acting a fool. Why say that when you are trying to capture the soap audience.

I have commented before that the Real Housewives are like Menudo to me. But I don’t even know where Menudo is anymore…please just end it all gracefully.