Good News For Kate Plus 8

There is a good news for all you Kate Plus 8 haters, it is Kate Plus 8 plus new headache over child labor. In granting Kate Gosselin’s six-year-old sextuplets special work permits ,a Pennsylvania lawmaker is asking the state’s attorney general to probe if there was any shenanigans.

If government officials are found to have given a few bent rules or favorable treatment, production on the TLC reality series that they currently star could shut down—permanently.

Republican Rep. Thomas P. Murt has issued a statement claiming that the permits issued by the Department of Labor and Industry pertain to employment of “minors between 6 and 18 years of age in theatrical productions, musical recitals or concerts, entertainment acts, modeling, radio, television, motion picture making or in other similar forms of media.”

While the law also allows for kids under the age of 7 to perform temporarily in movies, it does not stipulate the same exemption for TV shows, which would spell trouble for the cable network since six of Kate’s eight kids are only 6 years old.

Consequently, Murt wants state Attorney General Tom Corbett to double-check the law.

“I have asked the attorney general to examine the law and clarify whether the permit process provides for such performances,” said Murt. “It appears those permits were granted even though the law does not provide for them.”

“Under the Commonwealth Attorneys Act, the attorney general is authorized to furnish legal advice to agency heads concerning the interpretation of state laws and regulations,” he added. “I have asked him to look into this case to determine whether these permits are legal.”

Making sure all his bases were covered (and to keep productions in the state), Murt sent a letter to the Labor and Industry Secretary, Sandi Vito, suggesting that the law be reviewed and amended if there’s a consensus that young children should be able to work but need increased protection.

Murt spokesman Sean Yeakle stressed to E! News that the congressman “is not accusing anyone of violating the law and he is not seeking sanctions against anyone. He is simply seeking clarification.”

The crux of the issue is whether a reality program in which kids are simply being filmed performing activities they’d normally be doing anyway is the equivalent of a scripted television production.

Work permits for Kate Plus 8 specify the Gosselin kids may not film after 10:30 p.m., anywhere where liquor is sold, no more than five days a week or twice in one day, and cannot be filmed in the nude, in the bathroom or while sleeping.

The Department of Labor and Industry already probed the reality show family last year after receiving complaints, but no action was taken. TLC insisted at the time that it’s adhered to all applicable laws and regulations.

Anyhow, if Kate Plus 8 is found not be in compliant, that could pose a huge problem for the network not to mention detrimental to its bottom line if shooting stops.

Though the show couldn’t do that on its own the way its ratings are nosediving. On Sunday, Kate Plus 8 lost over a third of its viewership by the time its second episode aired since its June premiere, bringing its total to about 1.9 million.

Well, some early fans of the show said it doesn’t interest them now. Because they think the show was originally about the struggles of a young family managing with 8 kids all under the age of 7 or 8. Now the show feels more like a “business” than a peek into the lives of an ordinary family. Surely ,they liked the drama with Kate and Jon, but now there is no balance to the show, it seems like it is all about Kate and her “manufactured” activities for the kids.


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