TLC is billing next week's episode as the series finale of Jon & Kate Plus 8. A month ago, TLC officials said that the show would be ending in mid-to-late November, after originally announcing in September that the show would live on as Kate Plus 8. But I guess diminishing ratings, an ugly divorce and having to deal with the antics of Jon Gosselin suing the network proved too much.
I think more likely though it's just promoting next week as the series finale both as a "let the dust settle" move and perhaps in an effort to boost the ratings.
Even ratings that were way, way off the highs still proved to be TLC's highest-rated show. What does that mean? It means like it or not, we have not yet seen the last of the Gosselins.
Update: Jon tempting fate with his kids on ATVs.
Here's the blurb about tonight's episodes from TLC along with the note about next week being the show's series finale.
TONIGHT - 9pm on TLC
JON & Kate Plus 8 - Back-to-back new episodesGymnastics & Baseball - While a lot has changed for the family, Jon and Kate still strive to give each of their children a normal childhood. For the Gosselin kids, it's time for some sporty fun! Kate enrolls all the kids in gymnastics classes and the tumbling begins and Jon takes the kids to a local minor league baseball game.
Never Before Seen -Kate shares never before seen footage from season 5. The family decides to get passports for a big trip, Kate celebrates her 10th wedding anniversary with the kids, Jon tries to train the dogs and Kate hits the road for her book signing. Viewers get a chance to see what hit the cutting room floor.NOTE: NEXT MON - A Special 1-hr SERIES FINALE of Jon and Kate Plus 8.
Kate is going to celebrate her 10th wedding anniversary, with her kids.
Huh?
I’m not the only person still trying to figure that one out.
Alas, soom footage never made it to the cutting room floor. I heard there were times (or at least one) when things were so bad that Figure 8 packed up their cameras and went home. (I believe Jodi & Kevin said this in an online interview)
Please Kate, I can’t look away, so just please go away. (I feel so dirty being interested in this woman and all the damage she does to everyone around her (except TLC & the tabloids wallets)
They should have cancelled this show months ago.why people are fascinated by this garbage is beyond me. Jon and Kate are the most uninteresting people on this planet.
The series, Jon and Kate Plus 8, is ending next week. The series, Kate Plus 8, may be coming soon. Never mind an ongoing saga of Gosselin specials. As long as all things Gosselin remain at the top of the TLC ratings, the family’s clock will remain fixed at 14:59.
I would watch a spinoff where Alexis just runs into stuff. Best part of that show was the kids. Too bad they will never get to have a normal childhood. Give em 15 years and they will have their own VH1 Celebreality show.
Keep it cancelled and ALL future shows like it !
ENOUGH ALREADY! Grow up and take care of the kids…stop bickering and get a real job!
THE SHOW NEEDS TO END!!! THOSE KIDS DESERVE A NORMAL LIFE WITHOUT ALL THE CAMERAS! THEY NEED TO MOVE ON WITH THEIR LIVES GET DIVORCED OR WHATEVER AND TAKE CARE OF THOSE KIDS!!
Am I the only one that thinks all the martial problems were and are manufactured? Their ratings didn’t really take off until their union hit the rocks, right? Just an oh-hum reality show. Cute kids, control-freak mom, and a laid-back dad. Then the tabloids hear of problems and the ratings go through the roof.
I wouldn’t even be surprised if all of this was Kate’s idea. “Jon, we need ratings. Go out and have an affair.” But more likely, I bet it was TLC’s. “You two either hit the rocks or we hit the cancel button.”
Some non-tabloid reporters have been sighting Jon sneaking back into the house when the cameras are away. If they “repair” their marriage for next season and return as “Jon and Kate plus 8″, it will prove I’m right. Then we have a whole season of marriage “counseling”. What they’ll do for the following season is anyone’s guess. Maybe the older twin daughters will become pregnant.
I really enjoy watching this show and would watch Kate plus 8. Its a real show with real people. We all have problems,and Kate is jsut trying to make a living like the rest of us. Give her a break!!!!
That smiley at the end of my post wasn’t meant to be smiling but to be sick.
Please, just go away, all of these people and kids, maybe with the balloon boy and his disgusting family.
I think They should keep it going it pays their bills and take care of those kids. I love this show. and i don’t think it should end because again It pays their bills
Another thing that divorce is their business and we shouldn’t be saying stuff when it is their business. i hope they get back together they are a cute couple and have cute kids
Rose, there are people in this world with more kids than the Gosselins who manage to pay their bills without exploiting their children. (And I’m not referring to the Duggars, who pay their bills by continuing to have more kids, which gets them their own show, and tax evasion by declaring their home a church.) If paying their bills is the only reason to keep the show going, can it now.
Thank goodness this Jon & Kate will soon be over. I am so sick of the both of them. I know Kate will probably continue in the spot light but I am just as sick of seeing her as I am of Jon. So Kate join the rest of world and go to WORK…..
The most fascinating thing about reality shows…is that people are actually FASCINATED by the lives of TOTAL nobodies. That is what Jon & Kate are…NO BODIES! Why do we care? With all the media attention they’re getting, they clearly don’t give a {bleep} about their kids. Jon is a total jerk. Kate is a MAJOR witch. I am sick and tired of turning on the tv, browsing newsstands and seeing their ugly faces. They were nobodies before the show, they will be nobodies after the show. Just because they are infamous, does not mean they are famous. Why does the american television viewing public love to turn deadbeats, witches (change the W to a B, please) and no talents into celebrities? This is the perfect example of stretching “15 minutes of fame” to the brink. I wish all these reality people–I can’t even call them stars because that would imply T-A-L-E-N-T–would go away.
Yes Jon and Kate have become the show, but it’s been getting boring when they do that.
If you watch the early season’s, it was entertaining watching parents deal with sextuplets. It was always about the kids for me. I’ll miss watching the kids grow up, but i won’t miss jon or kate.
i think that jon should go get the stick out of his butt its not hurting the kids its helping pay the bills. Kate might have been mean to jon but he doesn’t retaliate well. he needs to let kate have the show and the kids and he can go to hell!!!!!!!!
- just saying
i think that jon gosselin needs to leave kate and the kids to do the show he doesnt want to be on it so he left don;t take something thats fun to them away. he doesn’t even play with his kids he’s to busy on the phone with his “buddy” micheal lohan. he needs to let kate and the kids have the show and he can just take a vacation to hell!!!!
jon needs to leave the show to kate and the kids. its not hurtingt them in any way at all. he doesn’t want to be on tv but yet he goes on all these talk shows and whines about how he got fired and his kids are in danger all because he had an epiphany. and that video he made was on tv and in front of a camera. he needs to let kate have the show and the kids and he needs to take a long vacation to hell!!!!!
Please let this show die!
Please cancel it. Those douchebags no longer deserve any attention. I feel so sorry for those kids, I wish I could adopt them all.