‘The Kardashians’ Showrunner Teases How Hulu Series Will Navigate Family Drama (EXCLUSIVE)

variety.com:

Elizabeth Wagmeister Senior CorrespondentWhen the Kardashians were ready to begin their new show, everything was kept top secret.

Even the producers in discussions to be hired on the show didn’t know what series they were being interviewed for.“When we were interviewing showrunners, I wouldn’t ever say what it was for,” executive producer Ben Winston tells Variety.

Winston, one of the partners at production company Fulwell 73, says he met with over 50 potential showrunners throughout the process, and wouldn’t reveal that the project was with the Kardashians until the prospective producers got to the third meeting.“We said, ‘It’s about a group of six billionaire businesswomen, who are connected in some way and they all run the incredible companies.’ People were like, ‘Wow, that’s an amazing story.’ And then I would say that they are sisters, and everyone was like, ‘Oh my god, that sounds like the most fascinating family.’ They weren’t thinking it was a famous family,” Winston shares. “That’s the approach that we wanted to have.” “If I was pitching a documentary series,” Winston continues, “That is about six women who all run incredibly successful businesses, have amazing family interactions, live in Los Angeles, are some of the most famous, most followed people in the world and they happen to all be related, you’d say, ‘Well, that can’t be true.’ But that’s who the Kardashians are.

You’ve got to step out of the Kardashian brand to look at it and go, ‘Well, that’s unbelievable.’ That’s a documentary within itself.