Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Kardashians Downward Ratings Spiral Continues as Show Drops Another 90K, Falls Under 800K Viewers

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It may be time to kill off one of the characters on “Keeping Up with the Kardashians.” Or maybe have a season ender where they all go to a foreign country for a wedding and a gigantic explosion fells everyone until next season.

The reason I say this is because their ratings fell this past Thursday below 800,000. They lost at least 90,000 viewers from the week before to end up with 796,000 according to Mitch Metcalf’s Showbuzz Daily.

Even better: they lied about their ratings on their Wikipedia page. They actually linked to Metcalf, and changed their number on Wiki to 800,000. This now calls into question all the numbers on their Wiki page. Someone is rounding it up and it’s wrong.

The kooky K’s have done everything to spice up the ratings including sex change, comas, accidents, fist fights, Kanye West mental breakdowns, and OJ Simpson. But the numbers keep spiraling down. What’s left really?

This Thursday is the 260th episode of this flotsam and jetsam. It’s called “Family Matters.” They’re finally going to reveal the origins of Scott, their lowest intelligence member. He might be the subject of a good mystery, come to think of it, but no one really knows who he is.

And then? This season may end there since the virus interrupted production. I suppose there could be Zoom episodes. But it’s also possible this is the end for the K’s. That would be one COVID victim we could celebrate.

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Roger Friedman
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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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