When we last saw Matt Roloff and family, there were issues. Would he and Amy stay together? Would they sell the farm and, if they did, what would become of that awesome pirate ship? Not the usual reality television dysfunctional family fest, Little People, Big World was endearingly sweet and genuine, the kind of people you didn't feel ashamed to be voyeuristically tuning in to watch every week like a creep lurking in their shrubbery.One year after pulling up stakes on TLC, the Roloff family is coming back on their own terms to update us on the their lives. The family patriarch, Matt Roloff, took some time out of his busy day to chat with us.
Well first off, how are you?
I'm well thank you! We are off and running.
So the Roloffs are back on TLC for a series of specials to update all the fans. How does it feel to be back at it again?
Well actually it's great and it feels like the perfect solution with the perfect schedule. It took over a year to figure this out, so it was something that was thought about talked about and agonized over and prayed about. We knew at some point we couldn't continue to go on with this grueling schedule that we had for the first five or six years, but at the same time we knew that we had a lot of committed people who were interested in what we were doing, so how can we share updates and share our life in a way that also makes sense for us and a return to some normalcy? And TLC has just been an incredible organization to work with. We've been through several management evolutions and such things and the culture of that company has been consistently supportive of our family and our needs, giving us space when we need space and so we were able to figure out a win-win situation where we are filming forty days over a year as opposed to 320 that we used to do. So we've got it down to where it is a really good balance and some normalcy in our family and at the same time share our lives with everybody.
