The reality specials focusing on Kate Gosselin, her twin daughters and set of sextuplets morphed into a weekly series in its second season. But TLC announced Monday that its final episode will air Sept. 12.
The show was spun off from the wildly popular "Jon & Kate Plus 8," which co-starred the youngsters' father, Jon Gosselin, at their home in Wernersville, Pa. By the end of its run, including "Jon & Kate Plus 8," the series will reach the 150-episode mark. TLC says it hopes to check in with Kate Gosselin and the family periodically with future specials.
Humanity took a step in the right direction today, as TLC announced that it will not renew Kate Plus 8 for another season. The show began as Jon & Kate Plus 8 and initially followed Jon and Kate Gosselin, their eight demon-spawn children, and Kate's cavernous uterus as they sought fame and tabloid cover stories. After Jon and Kate's SHOCKING break up in 2009, the show was renamed Kate Plus 8, which still rhymed, thank god. The show is currently in its eighth season. [Vulture]
... Julianne Moore is developing a new series over at HBO based on the novel Dope. [TV Line]
... Daniel Tosh is working with Comedy Central, home of his hit web-video show Tosh.0, on a new animated project. Brickleberry centers on a group of "dysfunctional forest rangers at a national park." [Comedy Central, via press release]
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The creators of ABC's failed Detroit 1-8-7 have a new project in the works at ABC. [Deadline Hollywood]
Bravo is staging a "The Real Housewives Live Tour," a three-city whirligig featuring the stars of the network's Real Housewives reality shows (which in turn feature horrible women doing horrible things). Really, really stupid. [Kurt Sutter's blog]
Full disclosure: I was waaaay into Jon & Kate Plus 8 when it was new and sweet and the family was happy, or relatively so. Partly, too, I must admit, because my kids are biracial (their dad is Korean) and they sort of resemble the Gosselin clan (aww, those babies on TV look like my babies!).
And say what you will about the woman, I was always incredibly impressed with Kate Gosselin. I loved her response to the question of where she'd be if her family never did the show:
Thanks to Kate, they can afford it now!
Kate will work her ass off to make certain of that.