TLC Cancels Here Comes Honey Boo Boo over Mama June’s Child-Molesting Boyfriend

[Principled Peter]

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Source: Mediaite

TLC has officially canceled their ratings hit Here Comes Honey Boo Boo due to rumors that the family’s matriarch, June “Mama June” Summers, was dating a convicted child molester.

Yesterday, TMZ released a photo of Mama June and recently-released convict Mark McDaniel in a hotel room together, along with reports that the two of them had resumed a relationship that began and ended ten years ago, when McDaniel was convicted of aggravated child molestation in — specifically, “forcing oral sex on an 8 year old” relative of Mama June — and sent to serve a ten-year prison sentence in 2004.

Mama June herself was recently divorced from Mike “Sugar Bear” Thompson, a former cast member on the show and the biological father of Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thomspon.

Read more: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/tlc-cancels-here-comes-honey-boo-boo-over-mama-junes-child-molesting-boyfriend/

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Maybe there IS a God!

[shenmue]

1. I hope this guy didn't try to do anything to Mama June's kids

[get the red out]

59. That was my first thought

I'm afraid for the kids, couldn't care less about TLC.

[rocktivity]

2. TLC has simply reaped what it sowed

Or, as the prehistoric computer geeks liked to to say, "Garbage in, garbage out."

Maybe TLC can follow up with a show about who gets custody of Honey Boo Boo.


rocktivity

[LovingA2andMI]

6. Reaping and Sowing...

TLC Trash Lives Channel - for the reality mess they are putting on TV.

What's amazing is folks not only watch, but follow the lives of so called "Reality Stars" on the Trash Lives Channel. As for Alanna, let's hope this little girl is in the custody of her Father and completely away for good from her sick Mother.

Also, when is the American public going to demand better programming on TV? Never, because it sure seems like it.

[Blue_Adept]

35. One person's better programming...

is another person's trash.

Hell, you get enough people around here that deride anything that's popular in general as being worthy of contempt.

[TheBlackAdder]

42. A person who views HCHBB as "Better Programming" is morally and culturally bankrupt. nt

[geardaddy]

51. I remember when TLC was actually "The Learning Channel"

I used to watch a show called "The Operation" which showed medical procedures. That was a good show. Now TLC is all crap.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

72. GIGO is still the rule today.

In computers or any other line of work, GIGO is an accepted truth.

[Aristus]

3. Headline: "TLC Takes Out The Trash".

About time, too. It was starting to stink...

[janlyn]

5. From the very beginning that show stunk worse

than a dead carp laying in the hot sun, under the bleachers at a Willie Nelson 4th of July picnic!

[RebelOne]

57. I watched it once for 15 minutes and that was all I could take.

TLC's dropping of it is no big loss.

[calimary]

13. Yeah, no shit! To the DUMPSTER with them!

Just the most ridiculous, pathetic, repulsive show on TV. Well, besides All-Things-Kartrashian and duck dynasty and the duggars and teen moms and sister wives or whatever-the-fuck it's called. Revolting! WHY we are elevating these low-life losers to the heights of celebrity and showering money and glory and adulation on them - is just beyond me. It reinforces nothing but all the bad stuff. It reinforces the worst in us. Yeah - you can be a total waste and a dumbfuck and they'll give you yer own teevee show and make you rich and famous!!!!

SHEESH... no wonder so many people still vote republi-CON...

It's really amazing to see what's evolved in our pop culture - or maybe DEVOLVED would be a more appropriate word. We used to hold jerk and asshole figures like the primordial teabagger Frank Burns from "M*A*S*H" - as objects of derision. Jokes. Worthy of scorn. CERTAINLY NOT something to be admired or emulated.

And shit - NOW we worship them, hang on their every word, follow them to hell and back, and vote them into high office...

NO WONDER this country is so messed up.

[LiberalLovinLug]

71. + 1000

exasperatingly right. Another example of today is Jersey Shore. Making wealthy celebrities of young stupid slacker foul-mouthed partiers.

Other shows back then:
Get Smart we laughed at stupidity (and also ridiculed the intelligence community. I don't think you could do that today)
Hogan's Hero's we laughed at stupidity. In that case of the "other".

[Travelman]

4. And today, the world became a slightly better place. n/t

[irisblue]

23. sigh....

[2naSalit]

7. And THAT'S what it takes

to get a crock of poo show cancelled? Our society is in pretty sad shape.

[belzabubba333]

8. i used to watch tlc alot then at some point all the learning was thrown in the wood chipper

and we got this garbage. f.u. tlc i hope you drown

[7962]

74. Wonder how many people remember the "L" actually stands for "Learning"?

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

75. You know that when Honey Boo Boo grows up

She's going to look just like her mama.

[TreasonousBastard]

10. The second post on this in a half hour and...

I still can't imagine why anyone gives a shit.

[eissa]

18. My guess

is that for those of us who remember TLC pre-trash reality shows, it was a really great channel with some interesting programming. Maybe the ratings weren't as great, but boy how nice it would be to see crap shows like this continue to get cancelled and have it go back to its original concept.

[TreasonousBastard]

21. It is discouraging that something actually educational...

gets dumped because it can't make money.

There's still PBS, the better Animal Planet stuff, BBC, and...

Damn, I get 900 cable channels and that's it?

[mrdmk]

36. For your reading pleasure, here is the Discovery Communications lineup

link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_Communications

Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, Investigation Discovery, Oprah Winfrey Network, Science, Discovery Family, American Heroes Channel, Destination America, Discovery Fit & Health, Velocity, Discovery en Español, Discovery Familia, Discovery Digital Networks

To be truthful, I cannot watch most of this crap. It is on-the-cheap programming for crackheads.

It is not so much that educational stuff gets dumped because it cannot make money. It is that reality programming is so cheap to make, even with a smaller viewing audience the programming buget is in the black. Also the low start-up cost of a reality program can be considered risk-free. This is why there is so much of it now...

[eissa]

41. Try LinkTV

I have Dish and they're on channel 9410. Awesome channel with some great documentaries.

[Dont call me Shirley]

65. Link TV good. And Free Speech TV - Dish channel 9415

[TreasonousBastard]

68. I think the bottom line is that with so many channels and...

so much time to be filled, there just isn't that much good stuff out there that can be packaged properly.

So we get cheap crap to fill time. So much for the dream of knowledge for the masses and note that we're desparately down to the Palin monster to fill time.

I remember something called "Pants Off, Dance Off" that was on one of the garbage channels a while ago. It was even more dreadful than you can imagine from the title.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

63. Do you actually?

I know that I have channels numbered up to some number above 1000, but I think a lot of the numbers aren't actually there, and many of the ones that are are only 'pay per view' or require some extra 'package' deal. I'd have to cough up an extra 6 bucks a month for the single German language channel on the list.

[TreasonousBastard]

66. True, I think there's a Greek channel and a Korean one here, but...

the point is that out of many hundreds of channels there aren't that many worth watching. In any language.

[logosoco]

25. I don't even watch TV much anymore but I am curious as to the

popularity of this type of show. I don't get it. But apparently many people do, because these shows become popular. I don't like what that says about our society.
Maybe I could understand doing like a one or two hour show that features the hobbies or occupations, but I don't get the whole on going series set up.
It's like we ran out of creative ideas or just gave up.

[TreasonousBastard]

70. As I said earlier, there's a lot of time to fill, and...

i might add that audiences are not that discriminating.

[yuiyoshida]

11. DO ALL THESE PEOPLE

Have Nick Names??? geeze.

Yui ( The SAMURAI LOVE CHILD) Yoshida...

[redstatebluegirl]

12. Who watches this junk???

This is just another example of the dumbing down of America.... Glad TLC (The LEARNING Channel) is taking out the trash....

[progressoid]

14. I believe it's pronounced, learnin'.

Drop the "g".

[NYC_SKP]

15. All the hate toward them is kind of sad. They are people, the deserve respect. WTF, DU?

More likely than not, they're victims of exploitation by TLC, a branch of one of the big four media conglomerates.

It's different from the Kardashians, who live of the fame of family members (OJ trial and sports) and who have nothing to offer.

At least the Honey Boo Boo family are representative, somewhat, of people with more humble means.

I've only watched bits, but hating on them really isn't very dignified, IMO, especially on a progressive board.

Go after the duck assholes or Palins, at least they've earned the scorn.

[BlueCaliDem]

17. ^^^This!^^^

[cali]

19. +1

[TerrapinFlyer]

20. The mother is dating a convicted child molester, and you say they deserve respect?

wtf? At what point in your book does a person deserve to lose all respect from the public?

Geez, at least TLC sees the bigger picture....

[NYC_SKP]

24. If you want to shit on the molester, than do that. Leave the victims, the family, alone. nt

[logosoco]

29. I agree with that, but I can't really say that this mom is a victim.

Looks like she made the choice to get with this convicted molester. I wonder what the family does think, since it sounds like his victim was another family member. If I was the mom here, I would have made sure this person would not be able to contact me at all when he got out of prison, I would never hook up with him.

(And I don't even get why I have any thoughts at all about this, I don't watch this show! I am hoping TLC may change their programming style due to this story and the other shows they air)

[NYC_SKP]

33. Definitely some bad decisions going on. Poor folks are ripe for exploitation.

Funny how the same PTB suppress us, then other elements swoop in to make tv shows about the suppressed.

There's moonshiners and the swamp people, and hoarders, oh my.

I'm mostly saddened by the classist remarks mocking these poor white southern people as if that's OK because it seems like they're white and might identify with conservatives more.

Bigotry is bigotry.

[VanillaRhapsody]

48. she aint poor anymore!

[logosoco]

49. Hopefully there was something in the contract to save some of the money for

the little girl.

[sunnystarr]

44. I think many women in the US can relate to

lookin for love in all the wrong places 'cause there isn't any to be found in the right places. Everyone has needs. The drive to meet those needs leads to making wrong choices. It's still a product of the human condition.

[snooper2]

34. She doesn't look like a victim here

[get the red out]

61. The kids

I feel for her kids. They don't deserve to be called names.

[A Simple Game]

27. And he didn't molest some random kid that the mother didn't know.

McDaniel was convicted of aggravated child molestation in — specifically, “forcing oral sex on an 8 year old” relative of Mama June

He should be fearing for his life while in her presence, instead she seems to be hooking up with him. I can't decide which one I think is sicker. Respect is one word that shouldn't even come into the conversation.

[LovingA2andMI]

31. Thank you ^^^^

For pointing out this FACT! The only innocents in this situation is Alanna Thompson and her Father Mike. Mama June, dating a child molester -- who happened to molest a FAMILY MEMBER is unforgivable and should not be held as the DU community who believe this action is wrong (dating a child molester while parenting a young child--Alanna), is throwing the entire family "under the bus".

[MADem]

22. I have to agree with you--this is just a sad thing all around.

I only watched the show maybe twice, three times, tops, but one thing that I noticed is that between all the stupidity and yelling and deliberate "precociousness" that they actually DID things together as a family. they laughed a lot and they seemed to like each other.

Apparently the 'deal' with TLC was that they couldn't move from their crappy house and they had to maintain their lifestyle for the program. That didn't prevent them from taking nice vacations.

I feel sorry for that kid--she's been the center of attention for so long, and now her mother has done a very stupid thing indeed. I'll bet her child-molesting "boyfriend" is after the Honey Booboo pot of gold, because the cast members have some healthy bank accounts.

I hope that kid gets some professional counselling--she's probably going to need it as she gets older and people stop recognizing her. And I hope she's with the father--being anywhere near a child molester is Bad News.

[cosmicone]

26. They are peddling a child on TV to make money.

Kardashians are adults and they are only hurting themselves.

Anyone who peddles a child on a reality show to get fame or money is trash in my book.

[Shadowflash]

28. The people may deserve respect,

But the show is moronic.

[Travelman]

30. I don't have any hate towards them

I think that the show is in very poor taste and that it's likely that they've been exploiting these people for years. OTOH, I'm guessing that they get paid something for doing that show, though I haven't a clue how much.


I'm glad that the show's gone and I hope they replace it with something actually worthwhile for a change. I don't hate the people on the show at all.

[Aristus]

39. I respect the fact that you feel they're being exploited.

But they are complicit in their own exploitation. I don't think they return any of their paychecks uncashed. They don't put their hands over the camera lens or anything.

[NYC_SKP]

55. I'd venture to guess that most exploited people are complicit. Think third world countries.

Small communities that accept "assistance" and end up losing their culture, their agricultural practices, their peace of mind.

We're only human, I don't know what went on in their heads when they signed, but it's likely that they were hoping for an easy and fun payday and are still caught up in it.

I think in a way they're victims, and I don't want to blame the victims (the abuser excluded).

Mostly, though, I'm upset by the mocking of them, on this board, as trash: "take out the trash", for example, perpetuates a very negative and bigoted stereotype (white trash, trailer trash) and ought not be used.

Don't you think?

[MontyPow]

58. Respect? Mama June is exploiting her child for money.

I believe that makes her a pimp.

[Android3.14]

78. Sounds like we have a fan

Leave Britney Alone!

[sinkingfeeling]

16. Thank goodness. One down on TLC and another dozen to go.

[BuddhaGirl]

45. Now if they'd just get rid of the Duggars!

TLC just ignores the fact that they are bigoted religious assholes

[get the red out]

60. And the polygamists

I think "Say Yes to the Dress" is their most educational show at this point.

[phil89]

32. Hope they take her kids

disgusting human being

[TNNurse]

37. A show that should have never been on the air in the first place,

Was cancelled because a main character exhibited even worse behavior. There is cause for hope. Very small hope, but there is some.

[Initech]

38. But what's going to happen to the sketti and butter industry?

[cab67]

40. I'm saddened that it took something like this to bring the show to a stop.

I only caught glimpses of it while flipping channels, but could see that, whoever was behind it, the show was causing great harm to a child. Can you imagine what it would be like to grow up with this show in your background, online forever, for all to see?

I have no problem with shows like Springer or Maury, as long as they stick with adults. If grownups want to humiliate themselves in front of millions of people, I'm all for it. We're not allowed to kill people in the arena anymore, so shows like that are the closest thing we have. But I have a real problem when parents subject their children to it. (I make an exception for the DNA paternity test episodes - the children aren't really paraded around in the same way.) And for all we know, this child's mother was also exploited; when someone is given the opportunity for a whole lot of money, good judgment can be forgotten, especially if one is from a less-than-privileged background.

It's ironic that someone who abused a child killed a show that was, as far as I'm concerned, abusing a child on a weekly basis.

[sakabatou]

43. Good

[nruthie]

46. I am shocked!

Why, they all seemed so wholesome. Living up to their richly deserved white trash reputation. Next let's all pray that the miserable Duggar clan will be the next pack of freaks to go. These shows are pathetic.

[Treant]

47. Will the final episode be titled,

"There Goes Honey Boo Boo?"

[lancer78]

50. This couple can get married in Georgia

but a homosexual couple can not. Anyone else think that makes "Best interest of the children" argument go right out the window?

[CarrieLynne]

52. exploiting white trash and then being surprised when they turn out to be white trash...

much like the Dell guy - his whole schtick was that he acted like a stoner - when he turned out to be one - they are shocked....lol brilliant

[MontyPow]

53. The Lowbrow Channel. Just like Faux News. There is no learning going on watching that channel.

[dembotoz]

54. you would think production staff would have given her ample warning

hell they are out of a job too

[Dopers_Greed]

56. I'm surprised they actually cancelled it

If it's such a ratings hit, something tells me the first thought TV execs had was "sweep the child molester issue under the rug"

[KG]

62. THis show is so shameless, i'm surprised they didn't try to find a way to roll it into the plot-line

[Treant]

69. "Tonight, on a Very Special Honey Boo Boo..."

No. Just no. TLC regained a small grain of respect for not airing a show starring--in part--a pedo.

[TygrBright]

64. And this is "news" because....? n/t

[Earth_First]

67. Absolutely! nt

[NYC_SKP]

76. If nothing more, it's a chance to use slurs like "take out the trash" and other forms of mockery.

I guess, since they were poor and Southern and white, some are having a regular field day with it.

regrettably,

NYC_SKP

[7962]

73. So I guess SOME good came from the guy

[PatrynXX]

77. Although my reaction is thank god.. Second thought predicts 1. unfair to Boo Boo and 2.

He served his time. thus it's discrimination what TLC is doing. We don't do double jeopardy no matter how hard Iowa tries

[Iliyah]

79. Never watched, isn't it the same channel

for 19 to the infinite number of family on as well?

[jtuck004]

80. so? n/t

[hlthe2b]

81. Locking....LBN has strict restrictions on what is posted..

Host consensus is that this is not within the SOP for LBN.

Sorry, as I realize there is interest, but you are free to re-post in entertainment, or even, GD, given the popularity of the discussion, but the SOP for LBN restricts what is posted there to important news of national significance and disallows entertainment type postings.

thank you for your cooperation and understanding.