Bring out them hankies, folks, because your favorite show you love to hate will be put down–hopefully, with a shotgun behind the barn. People reports,

Jon & Kate Plus 8, which in recent months had become just about as fun as reliving your parents’ divorce, will stop filming new episodes next month, according to the New York Post.

After Jon Gosselin, 32, forbade TLC from filming his and 34-year-old estranged wife Kate’s eight children for their show, the network will try to squeeze out a couple remaining episodes from existing footage before putting the show to rest, according to sources.

Kate, who’s previously said she relies on the show for her income, and who says the kids have been crying since the film crews left, hasn’t commented. Neither has Jon, who said he put the kibosh on the show because had an epiphany about the harm the show was causing the family – and not because he’d been axed from a future version of the show to be called Kate Plus 8.

It’s not clear whether TLC would restart the show should Jon change his mind about filming the kids.

The kids have been crying since they film crews left? This is one seriously ass-backwards family. Maybe they’re crying because Mommy Dearest is beating her little moneymakers now that they’re not supporting her anymore. Well, there’s always the sweatshops they can work at in downtown Los Angeles.