This week, the Kardashian-Jenner family announced that after 20 seasons, their namesake reality TV show, “Keeping Up With the Kardashians,” would come to an end in 2021. When the program first aired in 2007, the leading family was known for its late patriarch, an attorney who represented O.J. Simpson; the Olympian who married in; and a daughter whose personal life was exposed in a pornographic video leak. Here are a few of the ways the show changed not only TV, but culture at large:It Made Celebrities of a Regular-Rich FamilyIn its early seasons, the self-aware tackiness of “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” was evinced in the opening credits. These people, with their generously sized home and seemingly relaxed work schedules, are clearly well-off.

Source: New York Times September 09, 2020 21:36 UTC