Keeping Up with the Kardashians
The Ex-Factor
TV Flash files “The Ex-Factor” as hour 241 of 272 in the TV Flash guide — Keeping Up with the Kardashians (2007–2021) on E!, season 17, episode 7, aired 2019-10-27, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S17E07: listed hour 241 of 272 in the Keeping Up with the Kardashians guide, hour 7 of 12 in season 17. It aired 2019-10-27 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Psalm West” (S17E06). Next is “Rumor Has It” (S17E08).
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Khloe's ex-husband Lamar Odom releases a memoir; an old rumor resurfaces and Kris worries that it will spark a fight between her and Khloe; Kim is nervous to speak at a live press conference at the White House.
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Where does The Ex-Factor sit in the Keeping Up with the Kardashians guide?
S17E07 is listed hour 241 of 272 — hour 7 of 12 in season 17, season 17 episode 7.
When did Keeping Up with the Kardashians S17E07 air?
The Ex-Factor aired 2019-10-27 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Is it "real"?
Manufactured intimacy is the business model. Cameras, Kris producing the clan, sisters as brands — the unreality is the product.
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A family that turned tabloid weather into a vertical empire, cameras included. Keeping Up with the Kardashians is manufactured intimacy as a business model — Kris producing the clan, sisters as brands, and reality TV writing the playbook influencer culture later called original.
I'm Watching You is not a title. It is a pact. Ryan Seacrest and Bunim/Murray's Keeping Up with the Kardashians premiered on E! in 2007 and ran through 2021: Kim, Khloé, Kourtney, Kris producing the clan, Kylie, Kendall, cameras on the tabloid weather until the weather became the business. Manufactured intimacy as a model. Sisters as brands. Sex-tape origin lore and the forever famous-for-what discourse are inseparable from the text, which is a polite way of saying the origin leak never left the lobby. Twenty…
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- Kim Kardashian as Herself
Kim Kardashian played herself as the still center of Keeping Up with the Kardashians — tabloid weather turned vertical empire, manufactured intimacy as a business model, sisters as brands, Kris producing the clan. TV Flash files her as…
- Khloe Kardashian as Herself
Khloe Kardashian played herself as the blunt sister in Keeping Up with the Kardashians — tabloid weather as a vertical empire, cameras included, Kris producing, sisters as brands. Manufactured intimacy that influencer culture later called…
- Kourtney Kardashian as Herself
Kourtney Kardashian played herself as the eldest-sister brake on Keeping Up with the Kardashians — tabloid weather as empire, cameras included, Kris producing, sisters as brands. Manufactured intimacy with a sibling who looked tired of…
- Kris Jenner as Herself
Kris Jenner produced and played herself on Keeping Up with the Kardashians — a family that turned tabloid weather into a vertical empire, cameras included, sisters as brands, manufactured intimacy as the actual product. TV Flash files her…
- Kylie Jenner as Herself
Kylie Jenner grew up inside Keeping Up with the Kardashians as herself — youngest-sister weather in a tabloid empire, cameras included, Kris producing, sisters as brands, manufactured intimacy as a business model. TV Flash files her as…
- Kendall Jenner as Herself
Kendall Jenner grew up on camera as herself on Keeping Up with the Kardashians — manufactured intimacy as a business model, Kris producing the clan, sisters as brands, a younger silhouette in a tabloid-weather empire. TV Flash files her…