TLC has yanked Mama’s Boys From the Bronx from their schedule after two weeks on the air. The reality series revolves around a handful of thirty-something Italian-American guys who live at home with their moms in the northernmost boroughs of New York City.
According to TVMediaInsights and Nielsen, week-to-week Mama’s Boys dropped from 808,000 to 610,000 viewers at 10pm, and 817,000 to 563,000 viewers at 10:30pm. The cable channel has replaced Mama’s Boys with installments of Undercover Boss Abroad.
Castmembers have been encouraging fans of the show to petition TLC to bring the show back. One of the stars, Anthony Zoccolillo, wrote on Facebook, “You know whats funny TLC? We filmed all this great stuff about our culture, values, and traditions and you cut it all out and make them add all this nonsense then cancel us cause nobody liked what you told our production team to shoot.. what do you know about our Italian culture… let us be who we really are and then maybe we would have got better ratings.”
TLC commissioned eight episodes and four have yet to air. There’s no word on when or if they ever will.
What do you think? Did you like this reality series? Do you think that TLC should air the rest of the episodes?
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I loved the show I thought it was hillarious
We want the Boys back! Don’t let us have to get thier moms after you!!!GREAT SHOW!!!
BRING IT BACK MY 82 YEAR OLD GRANDMOTHER IS PISSED!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT MADE HER LAUGH SO HARD AND BROUGHT BACK MEMORIES FROM GROWING UP IN ARTHUR AVENUE….THE GUYS ARE CHOOCHES BUT THATS WHAT MADE THE SHOW…SHAME ON YOU TLC….YOU DIDN’T EVEN GIVE THEM A CHANCE….THE CANOLI CONTEST WAS EPIC…BRING THEM BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Today, in NYC, TLC is airing Undercover Boss Abroad from 3pm this afternoon straight through until 3am Tuesday morning. This is just insane. You mean to tell me there is no room for the Mamas Boys?
Oh my God. Today, in NYC, TLC is showing repeats of Undercover Boss Abroad from 3pm through 3am Tuesday. This is insane. And you are trying to tell me there’s no room for Mamas Boys?
Bring them back and let them be theirselves
Thank God this show was cancelled!!!! Although it is hard to believe, this was the worst show about Italians ever!!! Thirty something? – they looked more like 50 something!
The only thing thirty something was their IQ!!!
A Proud Italian American
My mom was Italian and I loved the show! Heart-warming and hilarious! It was masterfully produced. An all time classic! It should be in a friggin museum! Come on, bring it back already!
TLC you made a mistake – bring the boys back…think about it….Jersey Shore, The Kardashians, Jerseylicious, The Real Housewives of (you name it) etc. etc. etc.
Mama’s Boys had more class than all of the above. So many of us have told friends and family about this laugh out loud show and poof it’s gone. Give them the marketing and voice in the production they need you’ll have a hit!
I liked the showI was very disappointed when it wasn’t on :(:(:(:(.It was entertaining and funny and seemed to be real life. These stations take off good stuff and keep crazy none interesting shows. I even thought about going to NY to see where it was filmed looked like GREAT Food.Bring it back..
I cannot stand when channels introduce shows and then cancel without airing the rest of the season with no explanation. I loved this show and so did everyone else I know. I don’t know 1 person who watches Undercover Boss Abroad! I guess there isn’t enough time for Mama’s boys when they are playing A Baby Story repeats from 2002- seven hundred times a day. Come on TLC!!!! Bring the boys back!!
I agree 100 percent. Don’t forget the other hundred garbage repeats they keep airing. Mamas Boys was like a breath of fresh air compared to their other shows. I only tuned in to that channel to watch the boys and their mamas and I was totally entertained. They were just starting to pick up a huge following and just as everyone was ready to watch episode 5, poof….TLC yanks it for no apparent reason. Bring back the show, or some other network please pick it up. You won’t be sorry.
This hs BS . They should bring them back and have more. Maybe the BRAVO people should air the show. It would go good with real housewives
… CRAP ! ! ! I’M STILL LOOKING AND WONDERING WHAT HAPPENED TO MAMA’S BOYS IN THE BRONX. ” TLC- HAD PULLED THE SHOW.. * ” WHY” DAME IT I LOOKED FORWORD TO IT EVERYWEEK.. ” NOW TO FIND OUT IT’S CANCELLED : THAT (( S U C K S.. )) .. LOVED THE SHOW ” IT WAS THE ONLY REASON I WATCH THE( T L C. ) STATION.. IT MADE ME LAUGHT SO MUCH AND VERY INTERTANING. ” FUNNY “[ THANKS TLC FOR NOTHING…] ” BIG TIME DISAPOINTED… AND A BIG TIME ‘LET DOWN….
I’m still looking for the mamas and their boys, but everytime I check TLC, all I see are repeats of the same shows over and over again. I just don’t get it. Mamas Boys was the only reason I tuned into that network to begin with.
I have been trying to find out what happened to Mama’s Boys From The Bronx, only to learn that TLC pulled the show. Why??? As an Italian-American, this show is a true representation of the relationships between Italian mommas and their sons, especially sons who still live at home. My grandmother used to wash and iron her sons clothes by hand; make the food they loved……even cut their meat! I don’t think this show was given a chance and it should be put back on the air.