'The goals of reality TV and soap operas are pretty similar: It’s to educate sometimes, entertain always,' Andy Cohen says in the upcoming special, The Story of Soaps
, the primetime documentary special presented by PEOPLE and ABC, the longtime Bravo exec, producer and host, opens up about the close similarities between soap operas and reality TV — and why he believes the+"The goals of reality TV and soap operas are pretty similar: It’s to
educate sometimes, entertain always," Cohen, 51, says in the special. "Once you’re telling the people who were watching soaps, 'Wait, watch this, this is compelling,' it was pretty easy to get sucked into that. And then you’re starting to consider Court TV or CNN as a viable alternative to
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