Octu-Mom Inks Reality TV Deal

We're addicted to seeing moms and dads face 'public smackdowns'

(NEWSER) - America, it seems, is addicted to “bad-parent porn,” writes Meghan Daum in the Los Angeles Times. Nadya Suleman's new reality show is only the latest incarnation, along with Jon and Kate, of course. (And let us not forget Michael Jackson.) People just love to see moms and dads screw up in a big way. "We express disgust for them and for the media outlets that enable them, and then we read and watch some more." More»

Producer unlikely to sell Suleman's show outside Britain

(NEWSER) - The exploits of Nadya Suleman and her 14 kids may never make it to your television. As Time reports, the Octomom's program is being helmed by Dutch production company Eyeworks, whose European wing specializes in programs that depict Americans at their worst; its biggest hit to date has been Half Ton Mum—a look at the life of a 900-pound Texas woman who died at 29. More»

Denials were just negotiating tactics, insider says

(NEWSER) - Jon Gosselin and “Octomom” Nadya Suleman were just being coy when they denied they’ve signed on to a one-off reality show: Both are interested and stand to make upward of $1M for the program. Jon - Kate = Jon + Octomom is being shopped as a 2-hour special to air on Super Bowl Sunday. Cameras will reportedly follow them on a date. More»

Plus MJ and Gosselin hangers-on still talking

(NEWSER) - The Octomom TV special was shocking even to the Octomom herself, Nadya Suleman’s lawyer tells Radar. Suleman “was shocked to see some of the chaos of the scenes in the show, but she understands the show has its own production agenda.” Elsewhere:

• Mark Lester was on Today this morning, speaking vaguely about his maybe-maybe-not status as the biological father of Michael Jackson’s children. “It’s just something that happened. It’s a possibility that one or all—very unlikely all, but—one of those kids may be mine.”

(NEWSER) - Nadya Suleman's 14 kids will be paid $250 a day for starring in a reality show under a deal she signed yesterday, E! Online reports. The octuplets and her six other children will earn a total of $250,000 for 71 days of shooting over three years under the contract with European production company Eyeworks, makers of Breaking Bonaduce and The Biggest Loser. More»