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The Real Housewives of Atlanta

The Real Housewives of Atlanta
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Genre Reality television
Starring
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 9
No. of episodes 176 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)
  • Glenda Hersh
  • Lauren Eskelin
  • Megan Sanchez-Warner
  • Omid Kahangi
  • Steven Weinstock
Producer(s)
  • Luke Neslage
  • Anne Swan
  • Jason Cavanagh
  • Irina Grobman
  • Sybil Dessau
  • Bianca Barnes
  • Sean O'Brien
  • Lauren Ranzino
  • Daniel Blau Rogge
  • Brad Hurtado
Camera setup Multiple
Running time 41–43 minutes
Production company(s) True Entertainment
Release
Original network Bravo
Picture format
Original release October 7, 2008 (2008-10-07) – present (present)
Chronology
Preceded by The Real Housewives of New York City
Followed by The Real Housewives of New Jersey
Related shows
External links
Website
Production website

The Real Housewives of Atlanta (abbreviated RHOA) is an American reality television series that premiered on October 7, 2008, on Bravo. Developed as the third installment of The Real Housewives franchise, following The Real Housewives of Orange County and New York City, it is currently in its ninth season and focuses on the personal and professional lives of several women residing in Atlanta, Georgia.

The series originally focused on Lisa Wu, DeShawn Snow, NeNe Leakes, Kim Zolciak, and Shereé Whitfield; the ninth season lineup consists of Whitfield, Kandi Burruss, Cynthia Bailey, Phaedra Parks, Kenya Moore, and Porsha Williams. Of the original housewives, Snow and Wu-Hartwell respectively left after the first and second seasons; Whitfield initially left after the fourth season before returning as a friend of the housewives in the eighth and a full-time housewife in the ninth; Zolciak stopped filming during production of the fifth season; and Leakes left after the seventh. The remaining housewives joined in later seasons; Burruss in the second, Bailey and Parks in the third, Moore and Williams in the fifth (the latter of whom was a friend of the housewives in the seventh). Past housewives include Claudia Jordan (season 7) and Kim Fields (season 8).

The Real Housewives of Atlanta has received moderately favorable reviews from critics and has been recognized as a "guilty pleasure" by several media outlets. However, the series has been criticized for appearing to fabricate portions of its storyline. As of February 2014, it was the highest-rated installment of The Real Housewives franchise and the most-watched series airing on Bravo. Its success has resulted in the conceptions of the spin-offs The Kandi Factory (featuring Burruss), Don't Be Tardy (featuring Zolciak), I Dream of NeNe: The Wedding (featuring Leakes), Kandi's Wedding and Kandi's Ski Trip (again, featuring Burruss).


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