SMH: Oxygen Orders Up a New Reality Special Titled ‘All My Babies’ Mamas’
See, this is why we can’t rise as a people…
According to Deadline Hollywood, Oxygen Media, the channel that brought us the Bad Girls Club and Eva Marcille’s Girlfriend Confidential LA, recently ordered up another reality special that is sure to raise a few eyebrows.
Aptly titled All My Babies’ Mamas, the one-hour special will follow Atlanta rapper Shawty Lo and his 10 baby mamas. According to reports the show will center around “the complicated lives of one man, his children’s mamas, and their army of children, capturing the highs and lows of this extreme ‘blended family’ as they navigate their financially and emotionally connected lives.”
I just have a few questions:
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- Who is Shawty Lo and why do we need to see his baby mama drama played out on TV?
- Why is Oxygen, which once touted Oprah as one of its partners, working on a show that seems more suited for a Love & Hip Hop Atlanta storyline?
- Who thought ‘All My Baby Mamas’ was a good idea?
- Why am I glad the show’s producers, Tony DiSanto and Liz Gateley, are not black? (But why am I also horrified they think this is what black audiences want to see?)
- When are trashy reality shows going to jump the shark?
Help me out, Clutchettes…can someone give me some answers?
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Who is Shawty Lo and why do we need to see his baby mama drama played out on TV?
someone who made a little MONEY. we need to see this drama because it will make someone/some people MONEY.
Why is Oxygen, which once touted Oprah as one of its partners, working on a show that seems more suited for a Love & Hip Hop Atlanta storyline?
MONEY.
Who thought ‘All My Baby Mamas’ was a good idea?
someone who believes they will make MONEY off of people’s willingness to denigrate themselves and those who like to see people denigrate themselves.
Why am I glad the show’s producers, Tony DiSanto and Liz Gateley, are not black?
it would be really sucky to see black people make MONEY off of other black people behaving like lowlifes.
(But why am I also horrified they think this is what black audiences want to see?)
it sucks to see that non blacks (and blacks) realize know that there are many ignorant black people who are lacking in pride and dignity; people who will do anything to make MONEY, even if their cut is not all that much. but the notoriety makes up for it. and they know we like a good minstrel show as much as they do.
When are trashy reality shows going to jump the shark?
when people don’t make MONEY off of them. so, maybe if people stopped shining light on them, we’d help them dim into non-existence.
what’s that song? For the Love of Money by The O’Jays…
First the problem is NOT us rising as a people but learning to leave some of us in the gutter…
I already feel bad for the kids because of johnny appleseed as a father and the women who put themselves in this position. TV and entertainment has become straight trash so I am not surprised someone pitched and “okay” this. And sadly I can picture this show getting massive ratings…smh You can’t claim exploitation on this one if they willingly wants to be exploited. So as Ktish said above…I got nothing but coffee while going *hmm*
This guy must be hurting for cash. He had one or two hits and his career was over just like that.