Andy Cohen (television personality)

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Andrew Cohen
Born April 2, 1968 (1968-04-02) (age 43)
St. Louis, Missouri
Nationality United States U.S.A.
Other names Andy
Education B.S. (Journalism - Broadcast), Boston University
Occupation Television executive and Blogger
Employer Bravo
Height 5'9
Title Executive Vice President, Original Programming and Development
Website
Andy’s Blog on BravoTV.com

Andy Cohen is an American television executive and host. He is currently the Executive Vice-President[1] Original Programming and Development at the Bravo cable television 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, The Real Housewives franchise, The Millionaire Matchmaker, Million Dollar Listing, The Rachel Zoe Project, The Fashion Show, and Flipping Out. Cohen also hosts the network's reunion shows and its topical weekly show Watch What Happens Live. His position as host gives him the distinction of being the first openly gay late night talk show host[2].

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[edit] 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-winning Project Runway, Queer Eye, Work Out, Being Bobby Brown, Top Design, Make Me a Supermodel, Blow Out, and Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List.

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 and Joy Behar.

In 2009 he appeared on the cover of The Advocate and was profiled in New York Magazine, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and Entertainment Weekly.

In June 2010, he was listed as one of TV Guide'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, overseeing the production of entertainment segments. Cohen also served as a producer for CBS News' 48 Hours 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. He is a graduate of Boston University, where he received a B.A. degree in broadcast journalism.

[edit] Current positions with NBC Universal

Cohen is billed as an executive producer or co-producer on the following programs[3]:

He also handles unscripted (“reality”) series and specials, such as the following:

Cohen is also a blogger on pop culture, television, media, 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" Beauty Pageant

He is a recurring commentator on CNN and other media outlets as a pop culture pundit for Bravo. He hosted Miss Universe 2011 on September 12, 2011 at Credicard Hall in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and has co-hosted Live with Regis & Kelly on ABC-TV.

[edit] Previous NBC assignments

Cohen was previously vice president of original programming for TRIO, 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

[edit] Before NBC Universal

[edit] Education

  • Cohen is an alumnus of the Boston University College of Communication (1990).
  • He was graduated from Clayton High School in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1986.[4]

[edit] Awards

  • Emmy Award, 2010, as Executive Producer of Outstanding Competitive Reality Series, "Top Chef"
  • Peabody Award, 2004, as executive producer of the TRIO documentary The N-Word[5][6]
  • At least nine primetime Emmy Award nominations[7] 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[6][8]
  • Named by Multichannel News one of 2007’s “40 Under 40”[6][9] innovative and formative executives at work today

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.bravotv.com/watch-what-happens-live/bio/andy-cohen
  2. ^ http://www.mediaite.com/tv/andy-cohen-to-become-first-openly-gay-late-night-host/
  3. ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0169212/
  4. ^ http://www.ksdk.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=202482
  5. ^ ([dead link] – Scholar search) The Peabody Award Winners Archive, University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, archived from the original on 2007-08-31, http://web.archive.org/web/20070831090958/http://www.peabody.uga.edu/archives, retrieved 2007-09-26 . Note that the Peabody Archive lists the year of this award as 2004, not 2005 as stated in BravoTV.com’s biography of Cohen; the Peabody Archive citation is taken as authoritative.
  6. ^ a b c Andy Cohen’s biography, BravoTV.com, 2007, http://www.bravotv.com/blog/andysblog/bio.html, retrieved 2007-09-26 
  7. ^ "Awards for Andrew Cohen (V)", The Internet Movie Database (IMDb), IMDb.com, 2007, http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1565702/awards, retrieved 2007-09-26 
  8. ^ Cohen, Andy (2006-05-16), Stuff, Andy’s Blog, BravoTV.com, http://www.bravotv.com/blog/andysblog/2006/05/stuff.php, retrieved 2007-09-26 
  9. ^ "Forty Under Forty", Multichannel News (Multichannel.com), 2007-05-28, http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6446424.html?industryid=47199&q=%2240+Under+40%22, retrieved 2007-09-26 

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