Posted on 08/06/2010 6:24:07 PM PDT by Colofornian
The makers of the hit television reality show “Jon & Kate Plus 8” are producing a new series that easily could be called “Kody & Meri & Janelle & Robyn Plus 15.”
“Sister Wives,” a seven-episode series for the TLC network, is the first reality show that follows a polygamist family. Filmmakers are profiling Kody Brown and his three sister wives, a group of fundamentalist Mormons in Utah (the family does not want to reveal the city they live in).
The show, which was introduced at the Television Critics Association summer press tour in Beverly Hills Friday, premieres Sept. 26 with a one-hour special and then continues with six half-hour episodes.
“They are very much a modern family. They are open-minded. They are generally adorable,” said Bill Hayes, president of North Carolina-based Figure 8 Films and co-executive producer of the show.
Figure 8 was first approached by two independent producers last fall with the idea to follow the Brown family.
“When we met this family, we thought, ‘Wow, what a great story to tell,’ ” Hayes said.
“Their children were so well behaved and polite and healthy and happy,” he added. “Pardon the cliche, but the proof was in the pudding. I thought, ‘What a bunch of great young people, and there was nothing strange about them.’ They have an unusual lifestyle, but for them, it was their lifestyle.”
The suburban Brown family consists of the patriarch, who works in advertising; his first wife Meri, 39, and their 14-year-old daughter; second wife Janelle, 40, and their six children, ages 5 to 15; and third wife Christine, 37, and their five children, ages 6 to 14, with one on the way. The show follows Kody Brown’s pursuit of a fourth wife, Robyn, who has three children, ages 5 to 10, from a previous marriage.
According to a description of the show, “Sister Wives” “captures the intense dynamics surrounding a man juggling three wives while attempting to keep it a secret from the outside world.”
“From their unconventional family structure and living arrangements to financial challenges,” the description adds, “each half hour episode exposes the inner workings of a polygamist household, revealing the unexpectedly tight-knit and loving relationships between Kody’s wives.”
“Sister Wives” was shot late last year and is still filming the family in case the series is picked up for a second season, Hayes said.
While the family had been living in “quasi-secret” over its lifestyle for many years, Hayes said the Browns decided to do the series to show that polygamy does not have to be a world shrouded in dark secrets, he said.
“They just felt they had enough of that,” he said. “They didn’t want to be perceived as strange or weird or perverted.”
In an interview with The Salt Lake Tribune last year, Kody Brown said they were careful with whom they revealed their lifestyle.
“In the past polygamists have had to be secret due to the threat of indictment or expulsion from work. Our civil rights got thrown out a long time ago,” he said. “Even though society has evolved to the point of not knocking on my door with pitch forks and a lynch mob, that doesn’t mean that they couldn’t get away with it.”
While “Sister Wives” is the first reality series to delve into a polygamist family, it follows in the success of HBO’s “Big Love,” a fictional drama starring Bill Paxton about a Utah polygamist and his three wives. That show premiered in 2006 and will debut its fifth season sometime next year.
From the article: (the family does not want to reveal the city they live in).
Too late. Joe Flint of the LA Times ran an article -- also run in the Provo Herald-Extra -- revealing the city was Lehi, Utah. See: 'Big Love' for real in Lehi
Can you find some articles to post about things that really matter, such as JOBS for our fellow Americans?
Wow, and I remember when they said acceptance of polygamy was a slippery slope. How many polygamist shows have they aired so far. Good thing I already dropped TV some time ago.
Normal folks never seem to have to worry about that.
I remember another stupid show called “Amish In The City”.
I can see the polls now. Which door will Jody pick tonight? Will it be door number one, two or three. LOL
Lemme guess; number 1 wife is an old harridan and #2 and #3 are Brazilian beach goddesses in nokinis. Right?
Stupid perverts.
They use ‘religion’ to get all the sex they can handle- even with children at times.
Just as this Earthly Nation is of God, spiritual warfare has many fronts here and beyond, and the devil has many foot solidiers in guise of both earthly foes as well as so called “friends” and those sadly deceived into his will.
Lol! I wonder if the “patrirch” manages to feed all of them on his salary or on the taxpayer’s dime...If they even ask.
It’s like “My Five Wives” with Rodney Dangerfield but made for TV!
Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4c5m9f9jJ0
One word: BALANCE.
You can just bet we’re footing the bill for this scum.
First it was normalizing homosexual marriage. Now it is polygamy. Next will be polyandry. From there it will probably run in the direction of multiple men and women together, then inanimate objects, then children, followed by animals but not necessarily in that order.
The legacy of Joey Smith...
So our "free republic" is now reduced to your microcosm of the American economy? (No wonder we're in trouble as a nation)
And the definition of marriage in your eyes...who cares?
I would remind you that our fledgling Republican party took on two social evils in 1856: Polygamy and slavery, which they referenced as the "twin relics of Barbarism."
But let's face it: You're farrrr from being an 1856 type of Republican, aren't you?
Well, now you know why the very foundation of the Republican Party was to take on polygamy. And why 7,000 million citizens signed a 28-roll petition to keep B.H. Roberts out of Congress in 1898...after Roberts took on yet a third wife after his "prophet-in-chief" hoodwinked America into thinking it was dropping polygamy in 1890.
You think Roberts' third wife disturbed Utah voters who voted this Democrat into office...even though 8 years prior, their "prophet-in-charge" told them he was "tucking away" polygamy? (Not on your life)
Mormons in the 1880s, 1890s, and 1900s said one thing and then talked out of the other side of their mouths simultaneously when it came to discussing polygamy.
(That's what happens when they don't want to be as "open" in discussing the "meaty" part of their teachings)
Thanks for that important piece of history I was not aware of.
Until God is happy, politics is going to remain an issue. So concentrating solely on the latter will do nothing for the former.
We once knew that before Modern Oprah Winfrey all paths are correct “Christianity” took over. We need to remember what or forefathers knew, that allowing, or worse turning our back on people, friends, allies or otherwise, as they waltz the path to hell is the most offensive thing of all.
How I Met Your Mother;
and YOUR mother,
and YOUR mother,
and YOUR mother,
and YOUR mother,
and YOUR mother,
and YOUR mother,
and YOUR mother,
and YOUR mother....
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