The Real Housewives of Atlanta

The Real Housewives of Atlanta
GenreReality television
Created byPrincess Banton-Lofters
Starring
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons16
No. of episodes320 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers
  • Glenda Hersh
  • Lauren Eskelin
  • Lorraine Haughton-Lawson
  • Anthony Sylvester
  • Glenda N. Cox
  • Luke Neslage
  • Anne Swan
  • Carlos King
  • Andy Cohen
  • Steven Weinstock
Producers
  • Jason Cavanagh
  • Irina Grobman
  • Sybil Dessau
  • Bianca Barnes
  • Sean O'Brien
  • Giovanni Wilson
  • Lauren Ranzino
  • Daniel Blau Rogge
  • Brad Hurtado
Camera setupMultiple
Running time41–43 minutes
Production companies
Original release
NetworkBravo
ReleaseOctober 7, 2008 (2008-10-07) –
present (present)
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The Real Housewives of Atlanta, abbreviated RHOA, is an American reality television series that premiered on Bravo on October 7, 2008. Developed as the third installment of The Real Housewives franchise, it has aired fifteen seasons and focuses on the personal and professional lives of several women residing in and around Atlanta, Georgia.

The current cast of the sixteenth season consists of Phaedra Parks, Porsha Williams, Kenya Moore, Drew Sidora, Brittany Eady, Kelli Ferrell, Shamea Morton-Mwangi, and Angela Oakley, with former housewife Cynthia Bailey serving as a "friend of the housewives" 1. Previously-featured cast members include original housewives Lisa Wu, DeShawn Snow, NeNe Leakes Kim Zolciak-Biermann and Shereé Whitfield subsequent housewives Kandi Burruss, Claudia Jordan, Kim Fields, Shamari DeVoe, Eva Marcille, Marlo Hampton and Sanya Richards-Ross.

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. It has anchored Bravo's Sunday night offerings since the show's third season in 2010,[1] eventually becoming Bravo's highest-rated program by 2014.[2]

The success of the show has resulted in ten spin-offs: Don't Be Tardy, The Kandi Factory, I Dream of NeNe: The Wedding, Kandi's Wedding, Kandi's Ski Trip, Xscape: Still Kickin' It, Kandi Koated Nights, Porsha's Having a Baby, Porsha's Family Matters and Kandi & The Gang.

  1. ^ "'Real Housewives of Atlanta' moving to Sundays". CNN. October 25, 2010. Archived from the original on October 28, 2010. Retrieved May 10, 2021.
  2. ^ David Hinckley (March 4, 2015). "'Real Housewives of Atlanta' is the top-rated show in Bravo's reality franchise". New York Daily News. Retrieved May 10, 2021.