A blog about television by TIME’s TV critic James Poniewozik.

TV Long Weekend: Jon Plus or Minus Kate

Posting will be light around here over Memorial Day weekend, but I would be remiss in my duty if I did not tell you about the Monday return of Jon & Kate Plus 8, for the first time since the dueling-affair charges started hitting the tabloids and celeb magazines. Or maybe I'm being remiss in my duty by telling you about it.

(If you need to be brought up to date on the scandals and counter-scandals, run out to a newsstand and pick up a magazine. Any one. At random. I think Popular Science has a cover story on them.)

I have no preview for you, since TLC has chosen not to send advance episodes to critics—and there have been worse tragedies in my life than that—but the teasers that TLC has been putting out there imply that the couple will be addressing... well, something: 

After the Jon & Kate episode, TLC debuts Cake Boss, which it did send to critics. No adultery on that one. Just cake.

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    Actually, you can have adultery and cake, in a fashion I am not going to repeat here, as John Waters mentioned in a very loose and funny interview on Craig Ferguson last night. Not to bring the High Sheriffs in here, but the best line of the show had to do with a cookie.

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