
{"id":81,"date":"2007-04-05T06:09:25","date_gmt":"2007-04-05T14:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2007\/04\/05\/local-filmmakers-producing-series-on-%e2%80%98multiples%e2%80%99\/"},"modified":"2007-04-05T06:09:25","modified_gmt":"2007-04-05T14:09:25","slug":"local-filmmakers-producing-series-on-%e2%80%98multiples%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2007\/04\/05\/local-filmmakers-producing-series-on-%e2%80%98multiples%e2%80%99\/","title":{"rendered":"Local filmmakers producing series on \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcmultiples\u00e2\u20ac\u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Taylor Sisk<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em>Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>So many younguns! And each with his or her own personality!<\/p>\n<p>That Jon and Kate Gosselin are able to individually identify\u00e2\u20ac\u201dnot only by physicality but personality traits\u00e2\u20ac\u201deach of their 2-year-old sextuplets is perhaps the most amazing discovery in the first episode of a new series, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Jon &amp; Kate plus 8,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d produced by Carrboro-based Advanced Medical Productions for the Discovery Health Channel (Channel 35 in Carrboro and Chapel Hill). The series premieres next Tuesday, April 10, at 10 p.m. A sneak preview of that first episode made for compelling viewing.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In addition to the sextups\u00e2\u20ac\u201dAlexis, Aaden, Collin, Leah, Hannah and Joel (Hannah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the leader, Aaden\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s intrepid; I forget the rest)\u00e2\u20ac\u201dJon and Kate Gosselin have 6-year-old twins, Cara and Mady. If you doubted before, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll never again after this viewing: fertility treatments are serious business.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that Kate and Jon not only clearly love their children very much, they seem to still like each other, which has got to help. Unlike that lady who lived in the shoe and who fed her lot \u00e2\u20ac\u0153some broth without any bread and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153whipped them all soundly, and put them to bed,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d this brood has some real fun.<\/p>\n<p>Episode one finds the family carving pumpkins for Halloween and apple picking. Mom and Dad playfully banter with one another, somehow find moments to sit on the couch, but otherwise spend their days schlepping eight kids in and out of a minivan the size of a train car, pretty much nonstop.<\/p>\n<p>Advanced Medical Productions\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Shveta Berry, coordinating producer for the show, says the Discovery Health Channel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s target audience is mostly women, 18 and up. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Shows about multiples do really well for them, she says.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0 This new series is a follow-up to two one-hour programs about the Gosselin family, also produced by Advanced Medical Productions.<\/p>\n<p>I asked Berry if she thought there was any chance that Aaden might have once been Joel and vice versa\u00e2\u20ac\u201dif mix-ups along the way might not be at least remotely possible. Having not been around when the six were infants, she couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really comment, but did confirm they do today each \u00e2\u20ac\u0153behave really differently\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6. Collin is quintessential boy. He loves to tumble; he takes advantage of his size.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d As for Hannah, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the boss, but she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s very timid about it all. She imitates Mom,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as witnessed in the scene when she calls out one of her siblings for an inadvertently soiled diaper.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve completed six [episodes],\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says Berry, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153and we are editing seven and eight; then we have 12 more to shoot, produce and edit.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>As we leave the Gosselins at the conclusion of this first half hour, Dad says, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t imagine a different life. And I wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t trade it for anything in the world.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d May he still have it so good in Episode 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Taylor Sisk Staff Writer So many younguns! And each with his or her own personality! 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