Thirty pounds of butter. Two turkeys for the deep fryer. Ten dishes for a family of 18 — that was the last Thanksgiving the Derricos ever cooked on television, and it aired on August 8, 2023. Three Thanksgivings later, the kids are back in the kitchen, Deon Derrico says the cameras are rolling again, and one question hangs over the holiday: whose table is it?
August 8, 2023: The Last Thanksgiving We Saw on TV
The Season 4 finale, “We Are Family,” gave reality TV its greatest Thanksgiving grocery run. Deon loaded his four eldest — Darian, then 16, Derrick, then 12, and 11-year-old twins Dallas and Denver — into the car with one mission. “Just know, this is not a normal dinner. This is Thanksgiving dinner for a family of 18,” Deon told the cameras, according to PopCulture.com.
Underneath the chaos, the finale had heart. GG, awaiting her final scan results, offered to cook the collard greens — the easiest dish her health would allow. The family had hoped Amani, newly revealed as a Derrico, would be at the table that year. He could not make it. Nobody watching knew it would be the last Derrico Thanksgiving ever televised. Relive the Season 4 finale’s grocery run and you can see why fans still quote it: a family of 18, one kitchen, and a grandmother cooking through chemotherapy.
November 2024: The First Thanksgiving in Two Houses
On June 4, 2024, Deon and Karen Derrico filed for divorce after 19 years of marriage. Two days later, a judge finalized it. The show had already ended after five seasons. So the first Thanksgiving after the split came with no cameras, no episode, and no televised table — the family that once fed 18 on screen was now two households.
Christmas 2025: The Promise Under the Tree
On Christmas Day 2025, Deon posted a video of the whole family in the living room with a text overlay that read, “Merry Christmas 2025, Stay Tuned for the announcement of our All New Season 6, Show premiering in 2026.” He promised an update within 20 days. It was the brightest promise since the show went off the air — and, like the August 2025 Q&A before it and the May 2026 talk of a May release, it arrived with no network name, no title, and no date. But the video did one thing that mattered: it put the whole family back in one frame, in one living room, for the first time since the divorce.
November 2026: The Kids Are Cooking Again — and the Cameras Are Back
Then came this week. Deon posted a video of his kids pitching in to prep the Thanksgiving meal — the same kitchen lessons he has shared all year, teaching his boys the importance of cleaning and getting ready for the holidays, collard greens included. A fan begged for the show’s return, and Deon answered straight: “we are filming right now for our new season.” Asked when it would air, he reportedly added: “Not yet, next year.”
YOU MAY LIKE“We’re Filming Right Now” — Deon Derrico Confirms the Derricos’ TV Return Is ComingRead Deon’s filming confirmation in full and the tense is what jumps out: not “we will film,” but “we are filming right now.” After the lost two years between — a divorce, a house sent to auction with zero bids, an open court case — the kids are cooking Thanksgiving dinner on camera again.
November 26, 2026: The Table That Decides Everything
Thanksgiving Day is November 26 — fifteen days away. The table will look nothing like the one from 2023. Twelve of the 14 kids now live with Deon, according to court papers reported by TMZ in late October. Karen, who works as a substitute teacher, is fighting an open criminal case in Nevada and is presumed innocent. GG, who cooked collard greens through chemotherapy in 2023, is still the family’s compass.
Three years ago, Thanksgiving at the Derricos meant 30 pounds of butter and a grocery bill nobody ever revealed. This year it means a camera crew, a divorced family, and a holiday carrying the weight of a comeback. When Deon’s table is set on November 26 — cameras rolling, the kids in the kitchen, GG’s collard greens on the stove — should Karen Derrico have a seat at it, or is this comeback Deon’s table now? Pick a side, and say who you’d seat next to GG.
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