Rep: Rescued teen sailor Abby Sunderland's family not planning show

The Sunderland family apparently isn't planning a reality series after all.


Sunderland spokesman Jeff Casher claims the family currently has no plans to star in a new docu-reality series titled Adventures in Sunderland, The Associated Press reported Monday.

On Sunday, Laurence Sunderland told The New York Post that he had signed a contract for a reality series weeks after his 16-year-old daughter Abby Sunderland left in January in an attempt to circumnavigate the globe in a sailboat.  He added the family had been filming for the last four months.

However Casher told The AP that he spoke to Laurence early Monday morning and he said a reality project had been discussed last year when Abby's older brother Zac -- a prior holder of the record for youngest person to solo circumnavigate the globe -- was sailing around the world, but nothing ever developed from it.

Magnetic Entertainment, a Studio City, CA-based production company, is still p