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NEW YORK – You might say our national nightmare is over. Or is it just a TV series?
TLC’s reality show “Jon & Kate Plus 8” will end its spectacular run at 9 p.m. Monday.
During the final hour, Jon and Kate Gosselin, the estranged parents of young twins and sextuplets, will venture on separate outings with the kids. (Jon will take them to a fire station near the family home in Wernersville, Pa. With Kate, they visit a local dairy farm.) Each newly single parent will reflect on what the past has meant and what the future might hold.
And that will be that, TLC says.
It would seem the series is going out with a sigh of relief, after months in the midst of noise and upheaval. The feuding couple’s split came to dominate the series, as well as tabloids.
It was all good for ratings, of course. When the pair made their separation official on a “Jon & Kate” episode in June, it was seen by a remarkable 10.6 million viewers.
After that, production and airing of the series lurched in fits and starts to accommodate the Gosselins’ unraveling home life.
It was all quite a change from 2007, when the series first clicked with viewers for its heartwarming look at a devoted couple and their child-rearing challenges.
In September, a revamped series was announced: “Kate Plus Eight.” But that plan was torpedoed by Jon’s objections to having the kids displayed on TV. Any filming of the kids has been halted for weeks.
