Kate Gosselin is reportedly concerned that if "Kate Plus 8’s" viewership drops, this season will be the show’s last on TLC, reports PopEater’s Naughty but Nice blog.

One insider says the benchmark is 1 million viewers, and if the show dips below that level, it’s done.

New episodes of the show began airing Monday night, and will follow Gosselin as she travels to Australia, the story says. She’ll spend another night camping, although without Sarah Palin, the piece adds.

The last season of the program stabilized with about 1.6 million viewers per episode, far below the 10 million viewers who watched the episode in which Gosselin and her former husband Jon announced their divorce, the piece notes.