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Right now, I'm watching the Hayes family of Tlc's Table for 12 chat with Regis and Kelly. It's not the first time we've seen them lately; since the second season of their show premiered, they've been all over the talk landscape.

We're definitely seeing them a lot more than when the show's first season debuted; in fact, Tlc seemed to premiere the story of the Hayeses, who have two sets of twins and a set of sextuplets, on the Qt last March. The relatively soft launch was a bit of a mystery to me, given the network's love of multiples. I mean, these guys had Jon and Kate beat by a mile, right?

But now that I look back at it, there were two things keeping Tlc from really pushing the Hayes family back then: 1) Betty and Eric Hayes actually liked each other (read: they're boringly happy) and 2) Jon and Kate were still a couple.

Tlc has assigned "Table for 12" to replace "Jon & Kate Plus 8" on Mondays. The show is about the Hayes family which consists of parents Eric and Betty, two set of twins, and a sextuplets. It has been aired on Tlc since March this year, taking the Tuesdays slot but it will start a new schedule starting next month.

Eric Hayes is a policeman while his wife Betty is a stay-at-home mom who takes care of their 10 children. The couple who resides in Central New Jersey has three sets of multiples via fertility treatments, 12-year-old twin boys Kevin and Kyle, 10-year-old twins Kieran and Meghan, and 4-year-old sextuplets Tara, Rachel, Ryan, Connor, Ej and Rebecca. The latest has cerebral palsy.

On how this show would be different from "Plus 8", Radar Online obtained a testimony from Eric's boss Bart Lombardo who said that Eric is none like Jon Gosselin. "There is no way...