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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Welcome to the explanation from the BBC World Service.
I'm Katie Razzle and this is the Media Show.
We're here to explain the trends behind the fast changing media landscape.
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But first, an interview with Yulia Navalnya, the widow of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in a Siberian penal colony in February.
We discussed the circumstances of his death, her plans to stand for election and also Alexei's decision to return from exile in 2021.
You might recall the news footage of her and Alexei on that flight.
I thought how many journalists are in the plane and why they are not going to sit down on their seats and then we can fly back to Moscow because me and Alexei, we were really dreaming to come back to Moscow.
We wanted to live in Moscow.
It's first of all about optimism and thinking about better things than if to switch to Vladimir Putin.
You never know what is his mind, but it's better never to guess because you just need to do what you think is right.
You'll find my longer interview with Yulia Navalny this weekend on BBC News.
We also talked about the role of the media and the Internet in Russia because Yulia has taken on Alexei's role at the Anti Corruption Foundation.
This is his campaigning organization that became hugely popular on YouTube.
Their biggest investigation to date being one into a billion dollar palace on the Black Sea, which they said belonged to Vladimir Putin himself.