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Well, after 153 seasons, 9,000 episodes, and 40 Easter specials, TLC is pulling the plug on the beloved American institution that is Kate Plus 8 (nee Jon and Kate Plus 8). From the HollywoodReporter:
The Discovery-owned cable network that once put Kate, her ex-husband Jon Gosselin and their eight children on the map with ratings juggernaut, Jon & Kate: + 8, and its follow up Kate + 8 has opted to pull the plug.
“TLC has decided not to renew another season of Kate + 8,” the network said in a statement. “By the end of this season, Kate + 8 will have hit the 150 episode mark (including Jon & Kate + 8); an exceptional milestone.”
The final episode of Kate + 8 will air Sept. 12. From there, the network will check in with the reality TV star-turned-tabloid staple and her family with periodic specials.
Thank goodness there will be periodic specials. It was almost too much to take. Obviously, this was a golden era in American society: spiritually uplifting, intellectually expansive, emotionally rewarding, and an artistic masterpiece. We can never begin to repay Jon and Kate for allowing us into their home. What a wonderful love story and I am sure we all wish these young lovebirds the best of luck in all of their future endeavors. Thanks to them and TLC for making the world a better place. Good riddance.
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Thank heavens this staple of American culture is no more. I have literally no idea who these people are or what they have done, and every time they appear on Videogum I, as a Briton who is not deeply involved enough in US television to understand how to respond, feel alienated. So I guess good riddance indeed.
SIDE NOTE: Lorry. I just wanted to say it so that now if anyone replies calling me a lorry their humour will look as old, tired and repetitive as that joke actually is.
You can pram all you like, Doctor One. That won’t gap torch petrol anything.
i don’t know…i’m not sick of it yet.
…and I’ll kill you.
Arrrgh. Failed image links. This guy knows what I meant.
Awesome, that means the “John + 0″ show is almost inevitable!
“John Minus 9″
TLC Presents: “Johhhhhhnnnnnnnnn.”
Coming this fall to TLC, as well as all of our sister networks, every day of the week, for hours and hours
“John Minus 9 Plus Michael Lohan”
What, they didn’t even bother to send them to a foreign country for a season before cancelling them?
They did haul them up to Sarah Palin’s Alaska at some point.
So … okay, so this show … hadn’t been cancelled until now? It wasn’t cancelled three years ago? Just now, you’re saying. Great, thanks TLC, thank you for the update. Just air 40 ‘Cake Boss’ marathons I guess. MAKE IT WORK DESIGNERS, or something.
I can’t wait until they cancel “I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant” because that show is such BULLSHIT. Amiright ladies?
i wonder which family reality TV will cast to destroy next!
“Irresponsibly birth another set of sextuplets, Kate. Then, you’re right back on top! You’ll show them…. You’ll show them all!”
- Kate’s reality-show-fame-hungry inner monologue
The only exceptional milestone has yet to come; that will be the day when American criminal law is transcended in order for all eight Gosselin children to be convicted of the same crime.
It will also be the day that the words “matricide” and “patricide” enter the mainstream American vernacular. And we will rejoice, oh, we will rejoice with joy, for they will be fucking dead, hooray.
Hmm. I just found out this show is still on and that it’s been canceled at the same time.
That’s exactly what I thought. I had mixed emotions – I was happy it’s gone, and at the same time confused and annoyed that it was still on TV. I’m pretty sure it’s the first complex emotional reaction that Kate and John have ever elicited.
Cancelled just in time not to scar those children forever! Nope, too late … they’re ruined.
Jon and Kate Plus 8? That’s SO 2000 and LATE.
Jon Gosselin will now play Turtle in the Entourage movie
hold it, srsly thought it was him all along on entourage the tv show, lololololol? #OLOLOL
Thanks for spoiling it Mailman, now no one has any reason to watch the remaining episodes jerk
Are you missing a comma after “episodes?” Or are all of the remaining episodes just people jerkin’ it? Did I just spoil it again? Can Entourage be spoiled? Not in THAT sense of the word because OBVIOUSLY they can be SPOILED, that is the point. This whole comment should have been avoided altogether.
We will always have hot dogs and hallways.
TLC is a family channel! Naughty FLW!
I thought that was ABC Family. Are there TWO family channels? This cannot stand. We must start systematically removing any families from TL–oh. Nice.
ABC Family is Family in name only. It’s part of an old deal from like 7 station names ago.
Yeah those girls from “Pretty Little Liars” aren’t family material. Talk about throwing hot dogs down a hallway!
She is the reason men don’t want to get married, and he is the reason Ed Hardy is stil in business.
Does TLC stand for “Traumatizing Little Children”? If it does, may I be the first to say “Mission Accomplished”.
Unfortunately, this cancellation won’t mean we will stop seeing bad puns on the title of the show when girls named Kate make a facebook even for their wedding. Has anybody else seen these, or is it just a Utah thing?
Yes.
Ok have I missed a memo somewhere? Where is the Hunt for the Worst Movie of All Time?
What terrible timing for our new Miracle Whip overlords.
Let me confess that the first time I saw a promo for the show, I thought the hook was that they found a retarded guy with eight kids.
And barf still remains barf in barf.
I’ve never seen Whoever Plus Eight, but I’ve seen her on the cover of tabloids that I glanced at while waiting in the checkout line at the grocery store to have the following opinion: she looks like Catherine O’Hara playing a more evil version of Sweet Dee from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.