Watch TV Shows on TLC

Perhaps more so than any other cable channel, present-day TLC is virtually unrecognizable compared to its original incarnation. The channel was born in the early 1970s as a project of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare and NASA called the Appalachian Community Service Network, but when it was privatized in 1980, it took on the name The Learning Channel and created a schedule consisting entirely of educational and informational programming. In 1998, the channel, now owned by Discovery Networks, dropped "Learning" from its name, called itself simply TLC, and shifted its programming almost entirely to reality entertainment programming.

Early TLC reality series included design and home-related shows such as "Trading Spaces" and human-interest shows like "A Wedding Story" and "A Baby Story." In the mid-2000s, the channel's programming began to concentrate on the human-interest niche, moving away from the home-related programming and adding more series that centered around unusual families; the popular "Jon & Kate Plus 8" and "17 Kids and Counting" featured families with large numbers of children, and "Little People, Big World" follows a family of little people.

Some of TLC's more sensational reality series have drawn controversy along with respectable ratings. "Toddlers & Tiaras" presents the drama surrounding child beauty pageants, and the series' spin-off "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo" focuses on one of the pageants' contestants and her family, all of whom live in rural Georgia.

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1000-lb Sisters
Long Lost Family
My 600-lb Life
Sister Wives
90 Day Fiance
Who Do You Think You Are?
Say Yes To The Dress
Dr. Pimple Popper
Outdaughtered
My Big Fat Fabulous Life
Strange Sex
Long Island Medium
PEEP and the Big Wide World
Breaking Amish
Toddlers and Tiaras
Welcome to Plathville
Untold Stories of the E.R.
7 Little Johnstons
My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding
Cake Boss
My Strange Addiction
Overhaulin'
Extreme Couponing
Little People, Big World
Four Weddings
LA Ink
Counting On
90 Day Fiance: Happily Ever After?
Doubling Down with the Derricos
I Love a Mama's Boy
Smothered
Unexpected
MILF Manor
Sex Sent Me to the ER
American Chopper
Extreme Cheapskates
I Am Shauna Rae
Say Yes to the Dress: Atlanta
Jon & Kate Plus 8
DC Cupcakes
The Little Couple
Kindred Spirits
Gypsy Sisters
The Family Chantel
Babies, Babies, Babies
Kate Plus 8
90 Day Fiance: Before the 90 Days
90 Day Fiance: The Other Way
Buying Naked
Here Comes Honey Boo Boo
I Am Jazz
Family S.O.S. With Jo Frost
Randy to the Rescue
Dr. Pimple Popper: Before the Pop
1000-lb Best Friends
Miami Ink
My Teen is Pregnant and So Am I
Family By The Ton
Say Yes to the Dress: Bridesmaids
My Giant Life
My Feet Are Killing Me
Addicted
Seeking Sister Wife
NY Ink
My First Home
Dr. Mercy
You, Me & My Ex
19 Kids and Counting
What Not To Wear
Trading Spaces
So Freakin Cheap
Welcome to Myrtle Manor
TLC Presents
Taken at Birth
Sweet Home Sextuplets
Trauma: Life In the ER
Return to Amish
I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant
Police Women
Hoarding: Buried Alive
Unpolished
Leave It to Niecy
Next Great Baker
Body Bizarre
Darcey & Stacey
Love at First Kiss
While You Were Out
Love, Lust or Run
I Found the Gown
Quints By Surprise
Say Yes to the Dress: Big Bliss
The Blended Bunch
Inside Supermax
My Crazy Obsession
Evil Things
High School Moms
Save My Skin
Say Yes to the Dress: England
Playhouse Masters
Ultimate Cake Off