Hey everybody! I hope you all liked the show last Thursday night! The response has been pretty fantastic from friends and supporters and the folks at Discovery Health are pretty hopped up on it as well…good stuff! I just got the ratings today and our little show is the highest rated show on DH over the last month with somewhere between 600,00-800,000 viewers. As you might imagine, we are blown away by these results!
The big test comes next week when TLC airs the show for the first time. They have two dates set: Tuesday, the 16th at 9:00 pm Central and Wednesday, the 17th at 12:00 am (midnight) Central. If we have a solid rating on those two airings, our chances of moving to a series look really, really good. So if you missed it the first time or would like to keep up with the Joneses in High-Def, tune in Tuesday night!
One little twist that we are unsure of at the moment is the name of the show. TLC has it listed right now as “Quintuplet Surprise,” but we were told today that this might be a mistake and the name may stay as “Too Many Babies?” I’ll update as soon as I know for sure, but look for both on your TV guides.
The TV show wasn’t the only excitement in our life this last week, however. Britton and Brooklyn both decided it was time to give this walking thing a real go…they are so close!! Check out the video below – I caught both of them in the act in one video clip! We also had a crazy busy weekend – Nana, Bapa, and Aunt Summer (one of my two adopted sisters) came for a visit, one of our volunteers brought her new baby girl, Lila Grace, by for a visit, we met with the Pisner’s, parents of the ninth set of quints ever born in the US (1983), and somehow I managed to write a paper for my negotiations class…whew!!
Sorry to be so short, but it’s time to spend some veg time on the couch with my lady…good night, everyone!
Set your clocks, Tivo’s, and DVR’s for “Too Many Babies?” which airs tonight at 7:00 central on Discovery Health! I believe it airs at 8:00 on both the East and West coasts! We have also been added to TLC’s lineup for March 16th at 9:00 Central and March 17th at 12:00 (midnight) Central!! So exciting!! Check the listings here: TLC!
One quick caveat to the show: the first few minutes dives deep into our fertility issues and you might end up having a biology lesson with your kids if they see it!
For more details on the show, check out Discovery Health’s website here: Baby Week 2010!
Yay!! The networks have just loaded two “webisodes” to their sites! Both TLC and Discovery Health have loaded them up. Webisodes are short little videos that the production company put together to tell little bits and pieces of our story that did not make it into the final cut of the show. I think they made a total of six or seven of them…the two online now are “Helmet Fitting” and “Baby Proofing.” They’re really fun and cute videos so check them out here: Too Many Babies? Webisodes.
And if you have not been to the Discovery Health website, check it out here: Discovery Health. We are on the front of the website and if you click on that link it takes you to the new Baby Week site. This is all so exciting!!
Wow, this never happens…and I mean NEVER! We actually had snow – not sleet, not ice – SNOW…in Austin! We have lived in Austin and 20 miles down the road in San Marcos before that for more almost 15 years and it has only snowed one time (and we were in Colorado at the time…bummer!). The snow hit after the kids were in school and did not do much to make the roads dangerous so life proceeded mostly as normal. From what I hear, most of them got to go outside for recess and have snowball fights and the kids of Austin did get plenty of fun in the fluffy stuff after school let out…awesome! And in typical Austin fashion, after a day of nearly constant snowfall and blustery winter weather, we were greeted by blue skies, sunshine, and highs in the 50’s the very next day. Got to love livin’ in the ATX!! For more pics of the whole gang, fan us on Facebook by clicking the JonesLife on Facebook link in the sidebar!
Alright, it’s official…apparently. You know your life is not quite what it once was when your day starts off with a friend from another town posting a message on your Facebook wall saying they just saw you and your family on TV…
So yes, the show is officially going to happen and I can officially tell you when and where. Not that there has been any doubt about it happening for some time now, but it kind of becomes very real and undeniable when you see a promo for it on the tube! Discovery Health is the network, March 4th is the date, 8 pm (ET) is the time…oh yeah!!! Our show is the fourth and final show to be aired during Discovery Health’s Baby Week. Baby Week kicks off on March 1st and each of the four shows is featured on consecutive nights, with ours “batting cleanup.” Apparently, the fact that we are last in line is actually a good thing – it means that ours will be promoted the whole week so they are expecting good things from it. The commercial that is running now is not specific to our show – it is a promo for Baby Week – but there we are, upstairs hanging with The Fab Five then later is a shot of three of them in the backseat of our car…too much fun!
Oh yeah, I’m leaving out one very important detail: the name of the show! Let me just throw this out there before I let you have it – we really, really do not like the name! “Too Many Babies?” is the name, at least for the pilot, and its only saving grace is the question mark at the end of the title which thankfully takes the edge off just a bit. The words “too many babies” may have crossed our minds at some point during the pregnancy, but never once has it come up since they were born. Seriously, thank God for the question mark though I believe the content of the show will answer the question…definitively! The name actually makes sense from a marketing and business standpoint – nobody knows who we are and they need something short, punchy, and descriptive to grab people’s curiosity and get them to watch – but we do not like it, nonetheless. We are hoping that if it goes to series, the name will be changed, which is fairly common, or so we are told.
Here is the copy of the actual press release that hit the web today:
“TOO MANY BABIES?
NEW SPECIAL! Premieres Thursday, March 4, at 8 PM (ET/PT)
Casey and Ethan Jones had the perfect life – high school sweethearts turned man-and-wife, with a successful family business and a darling daughter to boot. They thought that one more baby would make life complete – but instead, they got the surprise of their lives when Casey found out she was pregnant with quintuplets. Today, their lives could not be more different – and this hour-long special shows how the family is adapting to a whole new ballgame.”
We are also being told that they will be setting up a website just for our show, which I’m assuming will be linked off of Discovery Health’s website. This will be pretty cool as the production company has been sending us “webisodes” that will be loaded on the site once it is up and running (I think after the show airs) to help people get more familiar with our story. They’ve been really fun and cool! I’ll be sure to pass that info along once I know more about it.
And one final, cool little tidbit that got confirmed today as well: TLC will definitely be airing the show at some point in the future after Discovery Health airs it!! That is a big one…TLC!!!!!
Oh, I just remembered I never mentioned anything about the production company so let me hit that subject really quick. Their name is Megalomedia and they are an Austin documentary filmmaker (technically, our show is a documentary). The biggest show they have done to date is “Half Ton Teen” which is about morbidly obese teenagers and their struggles with their weight, surgeries, and everything else going on in their lives. There are other versions of the “Half Ton” theme and they are all done by Megalomedia. The guys are really awesome people and have been great to work with!
I’ve got to tell you what just happened…I just took a short break to watch one of the webisodes that I had not seen yet and I’ve got to say, y’all are going to LOVE this show!! We have not yet seen the final product, but everything that we have seen from Megalomedia has been dead-on accurate in how our lives really are and the emotions that we have encountered along this path! We are hoping to see the finished version in the next few days…yay!!!
I guess I should explain the title of this post before I go…and just so you know, Casey is going to kill me! She was in the office as I was starting this post and I asked her what the title should be. She jokingly said, “My Sexy Wife” and I typed it in. We had a good laugh about it, but not as good as the one I’ll get when she sees it posted………if there is any way possible to video her reaction, you know I’ll post it!! And since we are talking about video of our family, I’ll end this post with a few short clips that I shot this afternoon while I was hanging out with the kids…
