Is the network bowing to outrage surrounding All My Babies’ Mamas?
Will the Oxygen network bow to pressure and cancel Shawty Lo’s All My Babies’ Mamas or will the show about the rapper’s 11 children with 10 different women make it to air?
Oxygen Media says the show that’s described as a one-hour special "revealing the complicated lives of one man, his children's mamas and their army of children” isn’t guaranteed to air and that the video circulating was stripped from the website’s "pitch reel."
There has been opposition from conservative group Parents Television Council, which calls the show “grotesquely irresponsible and exploitive.” Writer Sabrina Lamb started a petition on Change.org that has over 20,000 signatures.
Jason Klarman, president of Oxygen Media, declined to comment on the show Monday when the programming chief of the network previewed new shows to television writers.
Oxygen has denied any problem with the show’s premise. It “is not meant to be a stereotypical representation of everyday life for any one demographic or cross section of society. It is a look at one unique family and their complicated, intertwined life. Oxygen Media’s diverse team of creative executives will continue developing the show with this point of view,” the company said in a press release last week.
IF the show airs in the spring as planned, the PTC plans to stage a boycott.
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