Canceling 19 Kids & Counting Cost TLC a Lot of Money

A few weeks ago, released documents caused Josh Duggar to publicly admit he molested young girls, including his own sisters, years ago. The controversy didn’t just hurt Duggar, it ended up impacting his entire family.

The Duggar clan starred in the TLC show 19 Kids and Counting, but last month TLC officially pulled the plug.

But it ended up costing them quite a bit of money, as the CFO of TLC’s parent company Discovery Communications said today.

On a conference call for their quarterly earnings report, according to EW, Andy Warren said they had experienced some recent losses, citing “higher restructuring and other charges this year of $19 million primarily due to content impairment charges from canceling TLC’s 19 Kids and Counting.”

Yes, that’s $19 million (and counting, presumably).

[image via TLC]

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