TLC Pulls '19 Kids and Counting' in Wake of Josh Duggar Molestation Admission
Source: Yahoo News
The network sparked outrage Thursday after airing a marathon of the reality series hours after Duggars confession.
TLC has pulled 19 Kids and Counting from its schedule in the wake of star Josh Duggars admission that he molested several underage girls 12 years ago, including his sisters.
TLC refused to comment on the incident Thursday, but the network sparked outrage later that evening when it ran a 19 Kids and Counting marathon. As of early Friday, the show had been scheduled to air on the morning of May 27, but it has since been taken off the schedule.
Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/tv/tlc-pulls-19-kids-and-counting-in-wake-of-josh-119614188615.html
NV Whino
(20,886 posts)Adenoid_Hynkel
(14,093 posts)Pull the whole damn lineup
Also, just for kicks:
Initech
(100,070 posts)christx30
(6,241 posts)Considering no one in the audience is actually learning anything.
Adenoid_Hynkel
(14,093 posts)Fridays at 8:30, after "Brawling with Sarah Palin," youbetcha, donchaknow!
Initech
(100,070 posts)christx30
(6,241 posts)Watch a fatality train crash in Slo-mo!
cstanleytech
(26,291 posts)raping his own daughter though but as for my reaction to the show being pulled? Wooohoooooo because to be honest I detested it every bit as much as I detested Honey freaking boo boo.
Edit: Sadly I suspect they will air the episodes still once the heat is off and maybe even do a new show with most of the same cast but under a slightly different name like what was done with Dog the bounty hunter after he got caught on tape making those racist comments.
cynzke
(1,254 posts)NONSENSE. There is a DEGREE of difference between child molestation versus full blown rape, but AGE has nothing to do with that. It isn't LESS illegal, immoral or less DAMAGING TO THE VICTIM, if committed by a fourteen year old versus a forty year old. The victim doesn't say to themselves, gee LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE, at least my abuser/attacker was only fourteen! If you are the parent of the victim, do you think the age of your child's molester or rapist is less devastating because the molester/rapist was young? What is molestation, a less violent form sexual assault.
Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)JimDandy
(7,318 posts)Even better ones from downthread...
TLC: The Leering Channel
TLC: Touching Little Children
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)- snip -
This isnt the first time Discovery Communications has had to deal with a reality star scandal. Discovery Communicationswhich includes channels like TLC, The Discovery Channel, OWN and Animal Planet has had similar accusations affect several of its shows.
- TLCs Here Comes Honey Boo Boo was shut down after photos surfaced that showed star Mama June spending time with an ex-boyfriend who served time for molesting her daughter.
- Discovery Channels Sons of Guns was cancelled when star Will Hayden was arrested for aggravated rape of a minor, who family members have publicly identified as his own daughter. Later, his older daughter and former costar Stephanie Ford claimed her father had molested her when she was younger as well.
- A mother who appeared on TLC's "Cheer Perfection pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree sexual assault and engaging a child in sexually explicit conduct. Andrea Clevenger received two 10-year prison sentences and two 10-year suspended sentences for her sexual encounters with a 13-year-old boy. The show was canceled shortly after her arrest.
- A former Cake Boss cast member, star Buddy Valastros brother-in-law, is currently serving nine years in prison for sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl in New Jersey. In Jan. 2015, TLC announced Cake Boss had been renewed for at least two more seasons.
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Initech
(100,070 posts)Telcontar
(660 posts)I don't hold a man responsible for his brother in laws actions.
lbrtbell
(2,389 posts)Why did their art design team waste such a nice font on the wolf killer?
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)got in some big ratings first didn't they!?
They ought to get their damned broadcast license pulled for that sick stunt!
Hoppy
(3,595 posts)asjr
(10,479 posts)work for a living.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Work at an actual job? For money??
Damn, its so much easier to go around the country spreading hate in the name of God for money!
wordpix
(18,652 posts)Celebrating having 19 kids is nuts. Practice some birth control why dontcha?
Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)cstanleytech
(26,291 posts)CanonRay
(14,101 posts)going around to fundie churches and telling the congregation how evil WE are.
MADem
(135,425 posts)They'll probably get hired by some fundie church to do some kind of horseshit, and stupid people will fill the basket with money to keep them supported. Can't fix stupid....
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)tishaLA
(14,176 posts)is a fucking cesspool.
xocet
(3,871 posts)Travis Gettys | 22 May 2015 at 13:37 ET
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Sources told TMZ, which first reported the TV schedule change, that no long-term decision had been made about the show, but a General Mills representative said it had removed 19 Kids and Counting from the companys advertising schedule.
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http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/tlc-pulls-19-kids-and-counting-off-the-air-over-molestation-claims-against-josh-duggar/#.VV9q4-0P3Gs.twitter
Novara
(5,842 posts)I'm sure the advertising dollars mean more to the Freakshow Channel than molested girls.
herding cats
(19,564 posts)I imagine more will follow their lead. It's not good business to be caught supporting a family that chose to hide the sexual molestation which was taking place while pretending you're a model of American morality.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Solly Mack
(90,765 posts)I hope many people did.
George II
(67,782 posts)...it's been taken down:
http://biz152.inmotionhosting.com/unavailable.html
"We apologize for the inconvenience, but unfortunately this website is currently unavailable."
Or, it could just be overloaded? But I doubt that.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)Because when boo boo stupid show got canceled A&E scrubbed any mention of it on their entire site
http://www.tlc.com/tv-shows/19-kids-and-counting/
SoCalNative
(4,613 posts)not A&E
Divernan
(15,480 posts)With "only" 3 kids, it took me a lot of time to monitor behavior of each and also the interactions between them. With 19, each kid would be lucky to get direct eye contact more than once a day with each parent. A friend of mine from a large (7 kids) family told me that the older kids pretty much raised the younger kids. As the oldest girl, she felt she never had a childhood, and as an adult, chose to remain childless.
JI7
(89,249 posts)And for the duggars. I think they might find a way to get around it by focusing on those who got married recently.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)I imagine it being just a bunch of kids cleaning their room for an hour. Not very compelling television.
lancer78
(1,495 posts)rocktivity
(44,576 posts)Last edited Fri May 22, 2015, 07:20 PM - Edit history (2)
on the grounds that though her love interest at the time had molested her daughter, he had never appeared on the show; and that Oprah, acting on a tip, cancelled an appearance of theirs in 2006. Mike Huckabee says he'll stand by Duggar, though. Maybe they and Ted Nugent can form a band.
rocktivity
MADem
(135,425 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Wasn't there a gun show where the guy was molesting his biological daughters?
Conservatives are always boastings their superior moral status huh.
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)the things one can learn on The Learning Channel!
Initech
(100,070 posts)Adenoid_Hynkel
(14,093 posts)@BRIANMBENDIS 2h2 hours ago
did you know @TLC is being run by faye dunaway's character from the movie network?
George II
(67,782 posts)YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)Wait, that acronym for a channel is already taken...
The Duggars, The Honey Boo-Boos, The Palins...
Anyone remember the 'Peacocks' on The X-Files?
I imagine they are next to be hired.