19 Kids and Counting TV show cancelled? May be replaced by spin-off on sisters Jessa and Jill Duggar?
Amidst controversies surrounding Josh Duggar's alleged child molestation as a teen, TLC reportedly hopes to save "19 Kids and Counting" popularity by creating a spin-off that will focus on the newlywed lives of Jill and Derick Dillard and Jessa and Ben Seewald.
TLC may be considering launching a spin-off because of the high rating of episodes focusing on the lives of the young Duggars, People reports.
A source said that, "The show had begun to focus more and more on the next generation of Duggars, anyway – mainly Jill and Jessa and their marriages and babies."
The network enjoyed huge ratings for special episodes on their weddings and Jill's birth of son Israel David.
TLC has pulled episodes of the show from the air over Josh Duggar's case from a 2006 police report alleging that he molested five girls, possibly including some of his sisters, back in 2002 and 2003.
The network has still not confirmed whether the show has been officially cancelled for good, but advertisers are making their views known by pulling their ads and it may be hard to entice them back, even with a spin-off show about the two highly popular sisters that he has no part in.
TLC released an official statement regarding the controversy, "We are deeply saddened and troubled by this heartbreaking situation, and our thoughts and prayers are with the family and victims at this difficult time."
The older episodes are also not available on the network anymore. But a source told Us Weekly that this might only be temporary since the last thing the channel wants to do is throw all the story lines away, especially after they invested so much time developing them.
The entire family has chosen to stand-by Josh Duggar's side while the investigation is ongoing and none of the sisters has spoken out on the speculation that they were the victims.
According to Perez Hilton, some of the Duggar girls wrote about choosing forgiveness over a fault in their book called "Growing Up Duggar."
"Even though we may not feel like forgiving someone, we mustchoose to forgive every person who offends us and do it before they ask — and regardless if they ever do ask," they wrote in the book.
"The choice to forgive doesn't always free the other person from the consequences of his or her wrong actions, but it frees the forgiver of negative feelings towards the offender. And if we still have feelings of bitterness, the Bible says it's not only to forgive the other person, but also to go a step further and look for ways to bless him or her."
TLC may be considering launching a spin-off because of the high rating of episodes focusing on the lives of the young Duggars, People reports.
A source said that, "The show had begun to focus more and more on the next generation of Duggars, anyway – mainly Jill and Jessa and their marriages and babies."
The network enjoyed huge ratings for special episodes on their weddings and Jill's birth of son Israel David.
TLC has pulled episodes of the show from the air over Josh Duggar's case from a 2006 police report alleging that he molested five girls, possibly including some of his sisters, back in 2002 and 2003.
The network has still not confirmed whether the show has been officially cancelled for good, but advertisers are making their views known by pulling their ads and it may be hard to entice them back, even with a spin-off show about the two highly popular sisters that he has no part in.
TLC released an official statement regarding the controversy, "We are deeply saddened and troubled by this heartbreaking situation, and our thoughts and prayers are with the family and victims at this difficult time."
The older episodes are also not available on the network anymore. But a source told Us Weekly that this might only be temporary since the last thing the channel wants to do is throw all the story lines away, especially after they invested so much time developing them.
The entire family has chosen to stand-by Josh Duggar's side while the investigation is ongoing and none of the sisters has spoken out on the speculation that they were the victims.
According to Perez Hilton, some of the Duggar girls wrote about choosing forgiveness over a fault in their book called "Growing Up Duggar."
"Even though we may not feel like forgiving someone, we mustchoose to forgive every person who offends us and do it before they ask — and regardless if they ever do ask," they wrote in the book.
"The choice to forgive doesn't always free the other person from the consequences of his or her wrong actions, but it frees the forgiver of negative feelings towards the offender. And if we still have feelings of bitterness, the Bible says it's not only to forgive the other person, but also to go a step further and look for ways to bless him or her."
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