How Joanna Coles Sent E!’s Cosmo Reality Series Into a ‘Tailspin’ on the First Day of Filming

The show is 'an office family drama'

Joanna Coles hoped that her E! reality series about Cosmopolitan magazine, So Cosmo, would have enough on-screen drama to carry through an eight-episode debut season. But she didn't know that she would be the one providing the show—which looks at the lives of the editors behind the fashion magazine—with its most jaw-dropping twist.

Last September, on the first day of filming, Coles announced that she was stepping down as Cosmopolitan editor in chief to become chief content office of Hearst Magazines.

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