New TV collection will observe 6 individuals testing out Amish life-style in Pa.

A brand new TLC actuality present premiering Jan. 13 will provide a peek inside an Amish group in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, following six outsiders as they go away behind the comforts of recent life and spend time adopting a Plain life-style.

The forged members on “Suddenly Amish” — who embody a Californian content material creator, a luxury-loving rapper from Missouri and a newly divorced father from Texas — will hand over know-how, electrical energy and indoor bathrooms and embrace a extra structured life-style, in line with a community information launch.

“Romantic entanglements, culture clashes, emotional breakthroughs and tough choices take center stage as each individual decides whether or not the Amish lifestyle is truly the path they seek,” the discharge states.

Though many Plain communities keep away from publicity, the present will highlight what TLC labels a bunch of “progressive” Amish people who hope to attract consideration to their lifestyle and fight their dwindling numbers.

The narrative of a shrinking membership doesn’t match broader demographic knowledge on North America’s Amish inhabitants, which soared from 233,000 in 2000 to almost 411,000 in 2025, in line with Elizabethtown College. High beginning charges inside these societies are primarily accountable for the will increase, the faculty’s Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies stories.

Lancaster County is residence to the nation’s largest Amish settlement, which has a inhabitants of greater than 44,700, the middle estimates.

The first episode of “Suddenly Amish” will air on TLC on Jan. 13 at 10 p.m. EST.