The Bravo executive producer, who has hosted reunion specials for reality TV shows on the network, weighs in on the headline-making delay, saying that ‘live reunions are a very bad idea.’
AceShowbiz –Andy Cohen commented on the technical issues on the planned live reunion of “Love Is Blind” season 4. The Bravo executive producer, who has hosted reunion specials for reality TV shows on the network, said that “live reunions are a very bad idea.”
In the Monday, April 17 episode of his radio show, SiriusXM’s “Andy Cohen Live”, Andy weighed in on the streaming issues that initially forced Netflix to delay “Love Is Blind” reunion. “There is a reason we don’t do reunions live,” Andy noted.
“There is a reason [reunion episodes are] edited down. We could talk about a topic on a reunion taping for 25 minutes, for 45 minutes before really getting to the heart of something,” he further explained.
The “Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen” host continued, “Reunion shows are almost like a fishing expedition. You’re talking about different topics [and] you don’t know what’s going to land [or] what’s going to hit. By the way, a lot of times people will have incredible one-liners that no one in the room really heard because someone on the other side is talking. So we go through the footage, we hone it, we edit it [and it] is finally shaped.”
Andy believed that the top priority should be the quality instead of the speed. “There are ebbs and flows. You can’t say, ‘OK, we’re going to do it tightly in an hour.’ Sometimes it takes longer to get someone revved up emotionally,” the TV host continued. “By the way, you want them to be feeling the most intense feelings that they can about the seasons. That takes time to shape and craft. There’s an art here. You can’t just bang it out and say, ‘OK, we’re doing it from 9:00 to 9:59 and that’s when the reunion’s going to be.’ “
Bravo also mocked Netflix for the delay. On Sunday, Bravo’s official Twitter account tweeted, “We would never keep you waiting for a Reunion.”
Fans of “Love Is Blind” were left disappointed as they couldn’t watch the season 4 special which was set to premiere on Sunday at 8 P.M. ET. The streaming service later issued an apology for the technical issues, tweeting, “To everyone who stayed up late, woke up early, gave up their Sunday afternoon … we are incredibly sorry that the Love is Blind Live Reunion did not turn out as we had planned. We’re filming it now and we’ll have it on Netflix as soon as humanly possible. Again, thank you and sorry.” The episode was eventually available to watch on Monday.
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