Comedian Nick Cannon is ready to put fatherhood front and center with a new docuseries centering his twelve children with six mothers.
Netflix has greenlit the untitled docuseries set to premiere in winter 2026. The streamer announced the news at its “upfronts,” where streamers and networks announced their upcoming slate of programming.
“It’s about to get real,” Cannon posted on his Instagram. “Stay tuned…we cookin.”
The official logline sets the stakes plainly: “Superstar Nick Cannon is ready to pull back the curtain on the complete chaos, headline-making drama, and heartfelt moments that come with raising twelve kids with six different moms, all while managing his booming career and complicated personal life,” according to Variety.
The streaming service also strives to show both “million-dollar meetings” and “midnight diaper runs.” Producers of the series previously worked on Netflix dating series’ Age of Attraction and Love Island USA.
Cannon’s children include twins Moroccan and Monroe with ex-wife Mariah Carey; Golden Sagon, Rise Messiah, and Powerful Queen with Brittany Bell; and twins Zion Mixolydian and Zillion Heir and daughter Beautiful Zeppelin with Abby De La Rosa.
Cannon admitted in an interview that having 12 children was a “trauma response.” He told The Breakfast Club‘s Loren LoRosa last year that things might have been different had he “done the work.”
“I could have done things very differently,” he said. “It wasn’t I’m gonna go have 12 kids, it was more about I’m going to live life and have fun and whatever happens, happens. I can handle it. When it probably – I’m 45 now and can sit back and – if I would have thought [about] the process a little bit more and took time, to actually do the inner work, things might have been different in certain scenarios.”
Throughout the years, Cannon’s ability to actively father 12 children has been a topic of conversation in entertainment news. A viral 2025 social post showed Cannon struggling to remember all of his children’s names.
