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‘They Needed This Show’
How TLC got Alec and Hilaria to open up for The Baldwins.
That 2007 hit kicked off what has turned into a nearly two-decade run of successful shows built around unusually large families, including 19 Kids and Counting,Sister Wives, and Outdaughtered. Immediately, I felt we were the right home for it because (a) it was a family show and (b) I really do believe that so much of the programming at TLC, such as Baylen Out Loud, is about people who really feel misunderstood, who haven’t been able to tell their side of the story. I hopped on a Zoom with the producers, Alec, Hilaria, and my team, and we had a back-and-forth discussion about how far they would go in terms of the candor, their honesty, their humor, and showing their heart, and what they were really allowing us to expose.
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