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"Ratings continue to decline for TLC&amp;apos;s Jon &amp;amp; Kate Plus 8.\r\nMonday&amp;apos;s show &amp;#x2013; in which Jon complained that Kate&amp;apos;s yelling is &amp;quot;constantly annoying&amp;quot; &amp;#x2013; attracted only 3.5 million viewers.\r\nThat&amp;apos;s down nearly 4 million viewers from the week before and far from the show&amp;apos;s record 10.6 million viewers in June (when they announced their separation).  \r\nSee how Jon and Kate spent their hiatus\r\nAfter they announced their split, experts speculated the show might not survive.\r\n&amp;quot;I don&amp;apos;t know if the show can make that new transition [from two parents raising eight kids to one parent raising the children],&amp;quot; said Robert J. Thompson, founding director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University. &amp;quot;It&amp;apos;s like if The Cosby Show, mid-season, suddenly became Married With Children.&amp;quot;  \r\nKate who? Meet Jon Gosselin&amp;apos;s new women\r\nAdded Marc Berman, senior television editor at Mediaweek: &amp;quot;Once all of this dies down and Jon and Kate aren&amp;apos;t in the news anymore, this could be a problem for the show. They divorce, they move on with their lives and so do the viewers.&amp;quot;  \r\nLook back at photos of Jon and Kate Gosselin through the years\r\nBerman cited Sonny and Cher as an example.\r\nWhen they split, Cher got her own show; Sonny got his. &amp;quot;It didn&amp;apos;t work,&amp;quot; Berman told Usmagazine.com. &amp;quot;I&amp;apos;m worried.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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