Tag: The Learning Channel

Jon Gosselin sues TLC

jon-goselin-240Jon Gosselin has filed a $5 million lawsuit against TLC claiming that the network dedicated to learning damaged his reputation and career by preventing him from working with other media outlets.  He also claims in his lawsuit that TLC owes him $175,000 for Jon and Kate Plus Eight episodes that have already been aired.  In accordance with a contract he and his soon to be ex-wife signed in 2008, he gets $22,500 for each half-hour episode and $45,000 for each one-hour episode.

I’m not sure he even has to be in the episode to get the money.  TLC probably didn’t foresee a future where Jon and Kate would be separated and no longer appearing together on the show.

Jon Gosselin filed the lawsuit here in Maryland at the District Court in Rockville, where Discovery Communications, TLC’s parent company, is headquartered.

Since Jon Gosselin is under contract with TLC, it’s a shame that they cannot simply reassign him to another show on the network.  I’m sure I’m not the only one that would get a real kick out of seeing Jon work as a deckhand on The Deadliest Catch.  After spending 48 hours on his feet pulling up crab pots in below freezing temperatures on the Bering Sea, he might just decide that being married to Kate isn’t so bad after all.

Smoking is now officially no longer cool

Jon Gosselin

Kids today need no further proof that smoking is bad than to see this photo of Jon Gosselin sitting on top a ATV with a real life cancer stick dangling out of his mouth.   See kids, smoking is so stupid, the Hawaiian looking guy on that reality show with all the kids does it Smoking ain’t cool, Jon Gosselin does it.

It’s a powerful anti-smoking message to send to our nation’s youth, or to anyone else that doesn’t want to look like a tard.  Like Jon Gosselin.

What’s The Learning Channel teaching with ‘Jon & Kate Plus 8′?

1219781801496For the life of me, I cannot figure out what exactly The Learning Channel is trying to teach people with it’s hit reality show Jon & Kate Plus 8.  Whatever it is, it must be really important.  Otherwise, it wouldn’t be on The Learning Channel. It claims to be the only television network dedicated to lifelong learning for viewers who want to grow up, not old.

From what I can tell, the only thing people can learn from Jon & Kate Plus 8 is that men should avoid marrying bitchy women addicted to fertility drugs. That’s the only thing I’ve ever learned from the show. Not that I needed that particular lesson taught to me.

Jon and Kate Gosselin have been in the tabloids lately because of rumors that Jon and Kate have essentially split up. They are also saying that Jon is seeing another woman. I don’t know if that’s true, but I say anything he can do that stops him from putting the business end of a loaded shotgun in his mouth, is more than okay. At least I’m not going to judge him for it.