TLC said Thursday it has halted taping "Jon & Kate Plus 8" after Jon Gosselin's lawyer served it with a cease-and-desist letter.
The network announced earlier this week that it was reworking the show to focus more on Kate's new role as a single mom with eight children.
Although TLC said the show would be renamed "Kate Plus 8" starting next month, it also emphasized Jon would still appear on it.
Jon reportedly instructed his lawyer to send the network a letter demanding it stop taping the show on the grounds it is detrimental to his kids.
The couple announced during the summer they planned to divorce after nearly 10 years of marriage. Jon has since been photographed out on dates and partying and heard criticizing his soon-to-be-ex-wife.
"I'm here to apologize to Kate," People.com said Jon told CNN interviewer Larry King Thursday night. "I've made mistakes."
Asked if he has called Kate, Jon replied: "I've tried. She doesn't want to talk to me."
He added that although he hasn't spoken to Kate in nearly four weeks, he is trying to put their divorce proceedings on hold.
Kate's attorney, however, says the divorce is "going to go forward," People.com said.
And while Kate wants to continue taping the show "for financial reasons," Jon told King: "I need to be a father. I need to take my kids off the show."
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I hate Jon and Love kate and
I hate Jon and Love kate and all the kate haters shut up!!!
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I think this whole thing smells of dishonesty. What are they both going to do with no income. How is he going to pay for those 8 kids with out jobs. I dont think those kids where harmed in any way but I dont sit in their shoes. I think Jons motives are purely singular thinking and before he cuts off his bank account he needs to re think his motives. Find a job and some place reasonable to live that you can have 8 children and think about all this other stuff. Kids cant eat love, nor can they live in a one bedroon high rent apartment in New York City.
I think Jon has done and said some really ugly things about his life with Kate and it may never be forgiven by either Kate or his children. To put your family first means stand up and be a man and stop the skirt chasing and get a job that will pay for your new life before you cut the purse strings,
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