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The Media Show: The king of reality TV

How Andy Cohen turned the Real Housewives franchise into a phenomenon. And after Yulia Navalnaya’s BBC interview, assessing Putin’s crackdown on the media

Andy Cohen is the executive producer behind the Real Housewives TV franchise. He tells Katie how it became a global phenomenon. Also in the programme, after Yulia Navalnaya’s BBC interview, an assessment of Putin’s crackdown on the media which her husband Alexei Navalny used to promote his message. Francis Scarr of BBC Monitoring explains.

Presenter: Katie Razzall
Producer: Simon Richardson
Assistant Producer: Lucy Wai

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23 minutes

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Thu 24 Oct 202423:06GMT
BBC World Service

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