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When we last saw Little People, Big World patriarch Matt Roloff, he was doing a full Fred Sanford -- clutching his chest, falling on to the floor and leaving the world to wonder whether he had gone to join Herve Villechaize and Billy Barty in Famous Little People Heaven.
Despite blog speculation to the contrary, it appears Roloff survived. His show, however, is done: TLC just announced it was pulling the plug on Little People after a four-year run.
There's been a lot of change at TLC in the past year, with American Chopper getting canceled (and then revived in a new form) and Jon and Kate Plus Eight falling apart in the wake of its stars' nasty divorce (though the Gosselins can still be seen via specials).
Perhaps this means the Roloffs might yet return, perhaps as guest stars on Sarah Palin's new TLC series! For now, viewers can count on one more season of Little People: The show's swan song begins airing Sept. 6.
Beth Haller, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (www.gadim.org). A former print journalist, she is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Center on Disability and Journalism (https://ncdj.org/). Haller is Professor Emerita in the Department of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland, USA. Haller is co-editor of the 2020 "Routledge Companion to Disability and Media" (with Gerard Goggin of University of Sydney & Katie Ellis of Curtin University, Australia). She is author of "Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media" (Advocado Press, 2010) and the author/editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (Advocado Press, 2015). She has been researching disability representation in mass media for 30+ years. She is adjunct faculty in the Disability Studies programs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Texas-Arlington.
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