Subsequent annual or biennial updates focused on successive years with further pregnancies by the Radford matriarch, each increasing the count.
22 Kids and Counting started airing on 9 January 2023 on Channel 5[2][3] and became a multi-part, multi-season series under the same title, accompanied by a social media presence.
[4] The family owns and operates Radford's Pie Company, also known as Faraday's, a bakery in Heysham, which they acquired in 1999.
[5][6] The 2018 programme 20 Kids and Counting covered Sue and Noel's 25th wedding anniversary and the birth of their 20th child.
[8] While later episodes of the programme do feature pregnancies of some of Sue and Noel's older children, the series title has remained the same since it became 22 Kids and Counting, with the number reflecting how often Sue gave birth, and her children's kids coming under the "…and Counting" rubric.