“We are filming right now for our new season.” Deon Derrico typed those nine words into the comments of a video of his kids prepping Thanksgiving dinner this week — the fifth time in fifteen months he has told fans a comeback is coming. The words are the same. The question is whether anything else has changed.
Two years after Doubling Down With the Derricos left TLC, the comeback exists in two forms: Deon’s promises, and a paper trail that tells a harder story. Here is the complete file.
The Receipts: Every Comeback Promise in Deon’s Own Words
It starts in August 2025, when Deon teased in an Instagram Q&A: “all new television show, all new season, and all new episodes of our television show airs in 2026.” On Christmas Day 2025, a family video promised “our All New Season 6, Show premiering in 2026” — and an update within 20 days. No network, no title, no date followed.
By May 2026 the target had moved: Deon was reportedly “shooting for a May release,” and his words named exactly two people — “GG, and I will be filming.” Karen’s name was not in the sentence.
In October, Deon told fans that filming is underway now for a new season, adding that it would arrive “not yet, next year.” This week, under a video of the kids learning to cook the Thanksgiving meal, he said it again — same words, same target: 2027.
What the Paper Trail Actually Confirms
The promises are Deon’s words. The rest is on the record. The TLC chapter is closed: the family walked away after five seasons to control their own story, Deon has said, and their contract ended in 2025. Since then, no network has put its name to the comeback.
YOU MAY LIKE“We’re Filming Right Now” — Deon Derrico Confirms the Derricos’ TV Return Is ComingThe divorce is documented: filed June 4, 2024, finalized two days later after 19 years of marriage. Deon and Karen share joint custody of their 13 minor children; Deon pays $1,166 a month in child support while Karen covers the kids’ health insurance. According to court papers TMZ obtained in late October, 12 of the 14 kids live in Deon’s home. Darian, 20, is the only one outside the custody arrangement — an adult chasing a music career.
The jobs are ordinary now: Deon drives a school bus, Karen works as a substitute teacher. Karen’s criminal case, from her June 2026 arrest in Las Vegas on charges including harassment and aggravated stalking, remains open in Nevada courts; she has pleaded not guilty, and her attorney claims Deon forged the emails at the center of the case — a claim Deon denies. No verified outcome of the August 6, 2026 preliminary hearing has been reported.
What’s Still Just a Promise
Here is what no one has produced: a network, a title, or a date.
The biggest unknown is not the network. It is Karen. Deon’s May 2026 filming comment named GG and himself, not the mother of his 14 children. Her case is still open, and no one has confirmed whether she appears in the new season at all. Until that is answered, the comeback has a hole at its center.
The One Name in Every Version: GG
One person appears in every version of the comeback, and it is not Deon or Karen. It is Marian “GG” Derrico, 76, the grandmother who shut down fake death rumors herself in March 2026, looking into the camera to say, “I’m not passed, I’m very much alive, I’m here!” She first battled lung cancer in 2014; in Season 4, her doctor told her the tumor had shrunk to roughly a third of its size. She continues treatment in Las Vegas — and in May 2026, she was the only other name Deon mentioned when he talked about filming again.
That is the comeback file on November 11, 2026: cameras rolling, by Deon’s account; a premiere targeted at 2027; and a family split in two. So here is the question it leaves open. If the first episode of the Derricos’ new season opens in 2027, whose story should open it — Deon and the 12 kids at his house, or Karen fighting her way back to the family table? Pick a side, and say why.
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