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?
Image courtesy TLC.
that was the best reality show i have ever seen !! why would u cancel it?
You need to bring the show back .I love the New York part of it and I don’t see a problem with living with your parents .I think that is the Italian in me we do everything for our kids and that is the truth.My son’s friends always say I want an Italian mother. I do everything for them well not my daughter she does it she wants to do it herself.My son different story he can eat 24/7 and I am cooking for him.I am an American -Italian I was born in NY and my parents born in Italy,my… Read more »
Oh and that isn’t even Anthony’s house, it’s his aunt Phyllis’ house. His moms house is to disgusting to put in tv
You are right it smells like an ash tray gross. Anthony should be ashamed of himself talking about he wants to have a family he already has a daughter that he does nothing for he is a LOSER AND SO IS HIS MOTHER she raised that!!!!!
Anthony, one onf the characters hasn’t lived home since he’s 14 yrs old. And he’s an ex con. Don’t want my family watching lies and nonsense
LMAO
You are fools TLC. You had a real diamond in the rough. You never gave the guys a chance to just get used to being filmed for TV and just be themselves the way they would naturally and actually react without the awareness of the cameras in their faces. You really should have given them time and ‘let up on their leash’ a little bit. Now that would have been a show! You wouldn’t have been able to tape enough episodes!
LOVED the show. Hysterical. TLC’s loss. Big mistake in yanking the show. If ABC can get away with literally YEARS of showing the Bachelor and the Bachelorette and the fan base just continued to build even as the show became a bigger joke, what are you guys thinking? Do you seriously think that you are going to replace it with something worthwhile like “Toddler’s and Tiarra’s” or “Say Yes To the Dress”? Or how about “My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding”? Now there are some really big appointment TV shows, right? Gag! You are fools. You never gave the guys half… Read more »
A yo wa happened?! Where the Gumbas ? Chi fa., bring da show back
I thought it was an interesting show. I live at home with parents but it’s due to a disability and not by choice. It’s too bad they didn’t give it a chance to catch on. I don’t think it was promoted very much. Maybe they should take the show to a different network.
just when I was starting to get hooked on a REAL reality show, you pull it. I don’t understand how demographics or rating work, but perhaps more advertisment promoting the show i.e..billboards, commercials. Perhaps hire some of the marketing goorues that put the “kardashians” in every household…except mine. The whole East coast flavor was just a teaser to this West coast guy, I wanted more. Perhaps change the time slots but bring it back…Please.
Come On TLC that is a great show!!! It’s about family! tradition!
Put it back on give it a chance!!!! it was like home!
Not everything is about ratings, money!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 1%
Let me sum it up; what a bunch of f’n tool bags!
Love the show give it another chance. I like to see the boys and their families. Reminds me of my cousins growing up.
Thank god this show got canceled, it sucked so bad. i am an italian from the bronx and the people i know are nothing like that. What losers, this show make the cast from the jersy shore look like scholars. That kid chip from the show…really what was that and his mother looked like a junky with no teeth. soooo gross
TLC – you made a mistake taking mamas boys off the air.
Bring it back!!!!!