Kitties Are Right Here, Right Now
“...an online livestream of 4 kittens living in an oversized custom-made dollhouse.
It’s a simple recipe for a show, but Keeping Up With the Katashians has taken Iceland by storm.
Keeping Up With the Katashians follows 4 kittens- Guoni, Briet, Stubbur, & Ronja- as they sleep, play, sleep, eat, & sleep.
It’s a real rags-to-riches story for the 4 kittens.
They were found abandoned in a factory by a local animal shelter, which nursed them back to health & co-operated with Icelandic broadcaster Nutiminn to create the show & provide the stars.
Though it’s only been out for a few weeks, it’s already become Nutiminn’s most popular web show.
‘There’s about 1,000 people watching at any given moment,’ Nutiminn editor Atli Fannar Bjarkason told Foreign Policy. ‘And we are getting more viewers by the day’...
While it’s widely popular in Iceland, the show’s garnered a lot of international fans, too. Bjarkason said people from across the world post regularly on the show’s Facebook page about what the kittens are up to, which one is their favorite, & just what might happen next (probably sleep).
The show’s title is, of course, an homage to Keeping Up With the Kardashians, a much less eventful & emotionally fulfilling show than one where kittens sleep for 8 hours on end...
Guoni is the rebellious socialite, Briet the aloof dreamer, Ronja the gentle soul, while Stubbur is large & in charge...watch the livestream by visiting youtu.be/UBIc7P_Bnf8
Bjarkasojn said the show’s purpose is to find the abandoned kittens permanent homes & raise awareness for stray animals...
All 4 have been adopted & should be moving in with their new families by the end of this week. (Nutiminn created the show in co-operation with the Icelandic Cat Protection Society & Iceland’s animal welfare office to ensure the stars are well cared for.)
After they move, Nutiminn will find a new family of kittens for the second season until those stars find homes, & so on.
‘As long as there are stray cats out there, there will be new Katashians & the show will go on’...
Bjarkason said his team was amazed by the show’s popularity. ‘People started laughing when they heard about the idea,’ he said. ‘They’re not laughing now.’”
Robbie Gramer
The Washington Post
in The Gazette, Montreal
Feb. 27/2017
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