Overcoming harsh reality
TV studios were at first cool to the idea of a Kardashian series, Kourtney says
Kourtney Kardashian says “no one” initially wanted to pick up her family’s hit reality TV show, Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
She and her family have all become global stars on the back of the hit program, but she has claimed TV companies were reluctant to support the idea to begin with.
“They came to the store and the girl was like, ‘Oh my God, you and your sisters! This is everything.’
“So then we started trying to pitch a show, like, about the sisters. I remember we went to E!, we went to everything — I think no one wanted it or something.”
She said a meeting between Kris Jenner and Ryan Seacrest played a big part in its coming to fruition.
She told the Emergency Contact podcast: “They introduced Ryan to my mom and then we made a reel, and it just was picked up right away. I think something happened with, like, Lindsay Lohan’s show and they needed filler, and so they were like, ‘Oh, this is going to be a one-season thing.’”
Keeping Up with the Kardashians has been on the air since 2006 and is set to end later this year, but the hit series has transformed the lives of the Kardashian and Jenner families, helping to make the likes of Kourtney, Kim and Khloe household names around the world.
Revealing how the show has evolved over the years, Kourtney said: “It’s hard when you first start filming because I would think about like, ‘Oh my God, what did I say? What did I do?’
“But then I didn’t realize how little of it is actually used, and that you also don’t know how editors are going to edit it and make you look, or what the intention is. I think once we started seeing edits, I felt more comfortable.”