‘Claim to Fame’ Executive Producer on Season 2’s ‘Undeniably Entertaining’ Winner and Tom Hanks’ Niece’s Meltdown: ‘She Went Out With a Bang’

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McKinley Franklin editor SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers from the “Claim to Fame” Season 2 finale, which aired on ABC on Aug.

28, streaming the next day on Hulu. Known for heralding romance shows “Love is Blind” and “Married at First Sight,” the production company Kinetic Content threw its hat into the ring of competitive reality television when creating “Claim to Fame.” Unlike “Survivor,” which recruits average, everyday people, “Claim to Fame” taps a unique demo — contestants who are related to celebrities. “We were looking for a way to create a show [with] a different mechanism for elimination competition,” executive producer Eric Detwiler tells Variety. “To have a game that’s celebrity adjacent combined with a world of mystery and intrigue, it’s a fun show.” The ABC series challenges contestants to conceal their celebrity relatives’ identities while living together in a house, and competing in a series of challenges.

Unlike other reality shows, in “Claim to Fame,” everyone is related to someone famous — and the objective is to find out whose who.

At the end of each episode, one person subsequently goes home each week in a “Guess Off.” For Detwiler, it was “a lightbulb moment” when conversations about Kevin and Franklin Jonas hosting the series began. “[They have] a real connection to the idea of what the show is,” he said. “Kevin is a star, a household name.