Keeping Up with the Kardashians
The family that turned fame into a vertical empire.
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E!
E! is entertainment television as a family business and a farm-work stunt: Keeping Up with the Kardashians turning tabloid weather into a vertical empire, The Simple Life sending Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie to punch in like it's performance art. Not a broadcast news hour. Celebrity as the format.
On TV Flash, E! is the outlet that treated fame as a weekly text. Keeping Up with the Kardashians is manufactured intimacy as a business model — sisters as brands, a mother producing the clan, reality television writing the playbook influencer culture later called original. The Simple Life is celebutante sitcom: farm chores as culture clash, friendship as the real engine, tabloid oxygen the decade could not quit.
Start with Keeping Up with the Kardashians if you want the empire's origin camera. Stay for The Simple Life when you want the earlier dare — two famous women clocking in for work they are not going to do correctly, on purpose.
FAQ
What did E! mean in this catalog?
E! is entertainment-and-reality television: Keeping Up with the Kardashians and The Simple Life. Celebrity households and celebutante labor as programming. Not CBS's prairie, not CNN's travel essay. A camera that assumed the famous were the plot.
Where should I start with E! on TV Flash?
Start with Keeping Up with the Kardashians for the family-as-studio, The Simple Life for Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie on the farm and the road. Two titles — the empire and the prototype stunt. Watch both if you want 2000s fame as a format.
How does E! differ from MTV?
MTV's shelf is The Real World, Jersey Shore, and video-era cartoons — youth culture and roommates. E! is Keeping Up with the Kardashians and The Simple Life — celebrity already in progress. Both unscripted; E! starts further up the fame ladder.
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