John Kate Plus 8

Jon & Kate Plus 8 is a reality television show produced in the United States by Figure 8 Films about the Gosselin family, consisting of parents Jon and Kate and their eight children: fraternal twins, Madi and Cara and sextuplets, Alexis, Leah, Hannah, Aidan, Joel, and Collin. The show follows the family through their daily lives, focusing on the challenges of raising multiple children, and the many things they do together like day trips etc. The show originally aired on Discovery Health, but has aired on TLC since season 3. The show was one of the highest rated programs on TLC during its run and the fifth season premiere was seen by a record 9.8 million viewers, the most watched show of that evening including broadcast television, twice as many viewers as the show’s previous series high. The family originally appeared in two one-hour specials titled Surviving Sextuplets and Twins and Surviving Sextuplets and Twins: One Year Later.