"Octomom" And Kids Get TV Series

Foreign-Based Producers Plan To Document Milestones In Octuplets' Lives; No U.S. Deal Yet

(AP)  The Southern California woman who gave birth to the world's longest-surviving set of octuplets has signed a deal to star in a reality television series, her lawyer said Sunday.

Nadya Suleman, who gave birth to the six boys and two girls in January and also has six other children, agreed to be filmed for a proposed television show by Eyeworks, a Netherlands-based production company, attorney Jeff Czech said.

The company hasn't yet sold the show to any American television network, he said.

The show will be modeled after a successful Eyeworks TV series in Denmark that documents the lives of four children from the day they were born until they become adults.

"They came up with this idea, presented to her and she liked it because she'll get to use a camera and do some of the filming herself," Czech told The Associated Press.

He said film crews will not follow Suleman and her children 24 hours a day, but will document certain milestones such as birthdays and special events.

"It'll be less intrusive than a reality TV type of program," Czech said.

An after-hours call to the Eyeworks office in Amsterdam went unanswered.

[rrozsa]

I can't believe that people actually take time out of their day to even watch reality shows. What are you getting out of them? I can't be entertainment. They are filled with trashy people, arguing, stress. It's really sad that it's considered "entertainment" by some; not by me. Instead of watching this bloated lipped cow and her welfare brood, try going outside, taking a walk, reading a classic, spending time with your children, LIVING. I hope her show never makes it. She needs to get a job like the rest of us!
Posted by YCantWeAllGetAlong at 3:04 PM : Jun 1, 2009

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It's just a new twist on soap operas, which people have been watching for decades. The only difference is that people who are not professional actors, and who are not provided a "script" -- are performing in what amounts to daytime drama every week. People love to see melodrama in other people's lives, whether it is fictional or based on "reality."

[rrozsa]

If this comes to America, I will NOT be watching. This woman is "me-me". Her kids were born with jobs. She wanted attention and she got it - as a backlash that is well deserved. She should use the money she is getting earmarked for her children, for her children, not to add friniolious luxeries to a house someone else paid for.
Posted by snoopy28173 at 1:34 PM : Jun 1, 2009

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"Friniolious" -- wow, neat sounding word! Couldn't find it in the Merriam-Webster site, though. Did you just make it up, or is there a similar word that you just misspelled?

[rrozsa]

I'm think more like Animal Planet.
Although they already do shows about puppy mills. There may be too many similarities.
Posted by Questionews at 7:38 AM : Jun 1, 2009

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Good one!

I'm sure the show will do well. There will be a lot of folks (Gloria Allred, for example), who will tune every week just to look for further evidence of her neglect of the children.

Hey, if nothing else, at least a reality show will keep her under the microscope so she can't get away with running off to get plastic surgery and so forth while she's supposed to be tending to all the kids. She'll have to at least make a show of tending to all the kids, so some conceivable good could come of it., I suppose. I won't be watching it, though.

[anti-global2]

octo-slob! I hope her kids grow to hate her.

[ajc1952]

I cannot believe what I am hearing. This woman should not be "GIVEN" anything. She should not be put on welfare or given ANY FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE of any kind either from the STATE or the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. ALL children should be taken from her forever!!!! She should be permanently STERILIZED. The doctor who allowed her impregnation should be FINANCIALLY responsible for ALL the children FOREVER!!!!

I hope the good people of America have enough sense to not contribute to this reality show by watching even one moment of it.

[YCantWeAllGetAlong]

I can't believe that people actually take time out of their day to even watch reality shows. What are you getting out of them? I can't be entertainment. They are filled with trashy people, arguing, stress. It's really sad that it's considered "entertainment" by some; not by me. Instead of watching this bloated lipped cow and her welfare brood, try going outside, taking a walk, reading a classic, spending time with your children, LIVING. I hope her show never makes it. She needs to get a job like the rest of us!

[snoopy28173]

Amen. Welfare is meant to pay for essential medical care when one can not afford health insurance. If she has money from a law suit, that should be counted against her welfare benifits. She should have to pay all the non-sense care she required as a result of this foolishness back. Then mulriply that by 14 for every year the kids are a dependent or unable to work or earn an income due to disability.

Take this money and pay for the babies medical care for the future. It will be pricey.

[snoopy28173]

If this comes to America, I will NOT be watching. This woman is "me-me". Her kids were born with jobs. She wanted attention and she got it - as a backlash that is well deserved. She should use the money she is getting earmarked for her children, for her children, not to add friniolious luxeries to a house someone else paid for.

[luvcanines]

those poor babies. what a pathetic excuse of a mother this woman is.

[davcor2]

I feel sorry for the network that buys this series and the advertisers that sponsor it . . . . . .
The back lash would be overwhelming . . . . . . think about it.