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by Annie Wu, posted Apr 9th 2010 9:45AM
Listen, the television industry is tough. There are so many hours of airtime to fill, and not every family with more than six children is guaranteed to be super-cute. So you can imagine TLC's challenge trying to come up with new material. This is probably why they went back to one of their stand-out personalities, Kate Gosselin of 'Jon & Kate Plus 8' fame, to kick off a new series called 'Twist of Kate,' in which Gosselin will interact with a variety of American families and "see what she can do to help."Well, the concept is surprising but it is probably a smart move for TLC to bring back one of their big ratings heavy hitters. The channel's obviously part of the "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" mentality. Or rather "If it broke, then scrape together the remaining pieces and put a handful of them back on TV with a slightly better haircut."
When the Jon and Kate scandal was in full swing, congealing into the tastiest tabloid fodder, it seemed like there was no end in sight. Kate was still pushing on with the show, alongside her eight kids. Jon was also doing stuff at this time, but most of it involved looking greasy in gossip rags and wearing a lot of Ed Hardy. Truly, it seemed like all Kate had to do was let Jon self-destruct his loving father character (note: If you want to look like the sympathetic dad, do not wear Ed Hardy), and she would easily emerge as the good guy. How, exactly, would this inspire people to seek ordinary, everyday family advice from her?
It's probably the same mentality that was applied to NBC's 'The Marriage Ref,' which makes baffling choices in terms of guest stars, there to provide marriage commentary and advice. Let's just say Madonna doesn't have the sweetest record when it comes to amicable break-ups.
Maybe it has nothing to do with the quality of advice and TLC's only pushing this through because some producer thought of the show's title and built backwards from that, deciding 'Twist of Kate' was way too clever to pass up. That seems to make more sense.
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