Obama and Honey Boo-Boo!
Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 1:38 pm
If you are a fan of Prez O', please stay home this election year and catchup on "Honey Boo-Boo" TV. thank you for your support!
Here Comes Honey Boo Boo
The cast of Here Comes Honey Boo Boo
Format Reality
Starring Alana Thompson
June Shannon
Jessica Shannon
Anna Shannon
Lauryn Shannon
Mike Thompson
Country of origin United States
Language(s) English
No. of seasons 1
No. of episodes 10
Production
Producer(s) Authentic Entertainment
Location(s) United States
Running time 30 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel TLC
Original run August 8, 2012 – present
Here Comes Honey Boo Boo is a reality television program on TLC which features pageant participant Alana Thompson (Honey Boo Boo), along with her mother June Shannon, father Mike Thompson and her three older sisters. The show is mostly filmed in and around the family's hometown in rural McIntyre, Georgia, United States.
Contents
1 Series overview
2 Reception
3 Episodes
3.1 Series Overview
3.2 Season 1 (2012)
4 Specials
5 References
6 External links
Series overview
Honey Boo Boo is best known for her sweet demeanor and appearance on TLC’s Toddlers & Tiaras. After a YouTube clip of Alana’s appearance from "Toddlers and Tiaras" went viral, TLC quickly offered the Thompson family their own reality show.
Alana Thompson was born August 28, 2005, to June Shannon and Michael Thompson, who have been together eight years but remain unmarried. They are portrayed as a blue collar family. Mike is said to work seven days a week in the chalk mines to support them. Thompson never graduated from high school. Shannon became pregnant with oldest daughter Anna at age 15 and had to drop out of high school. She later earned her GED.
Shannon considered giving Alana up for adoption before her birth but refused to sign away her parental rights, and is sometimes criticized in the media for having four children, each with a different father. Shannon is the star of the show as much as her daughter with her extreme couponing with her family at the Piggly Wiggly, farting, sneezing, bingo playing and even her ketchup and spaghetti recipes.[clarification needed] June Shannon portrays the head of the household as a loving redneck woman. She believes the show is a success because many lower income families identify with her family.
The family lives in McIntyre, Georgia. The average family in McIntyre is below the poverty line with a median household income of $24,028. The chalk mines are the principal industry in Wilkinson County.
Reality families usually make a salary 10 percent of a show's per-episode budget. Yet controversy stirred up when it was reported TLC was only paying the family between $2,000 and $4,000 per episode. Jon and Kate Gosselin of TLC's "Jon & Kate Plus 8," which first aired in 2007, earned $22,500 per episode. The Duggars of "18 Kids and Counting" are believed to be earning between $25,000 and $40,000 per episode. TLC says they're preparing for a second season and are in negotiations with the family regarding future earnings per episode.
Reception
Most reception to the show has been negative,[1] with some viewing the show as controversial.[2]
The A.V. Club called the first episode a "horror story posing as a reality television program",[3] with others worrying about potential child exploitation.[4]
James Poniewozik mostly praised the show, but criticized the producers for "the way that the show seems to assume that those viewers will look at this family and the world".[5]
A reviewer for Forbes criticized TLC as trying to "portray Alana's family as a horde of lice-picking, lard-eating, nose-thumbing hooligans south of the Mason–Dixon line", stating that "it falls flat, because there’s no true dysfunction here, save for the beauty pageant stuff."[6]
The Guardian also criticized the attempt to portray the Thompsons as something to "point and snicker at", saying, "none of the women or girls who participate in the show seems to hate themselves for their poverty, their weight, their less-than-urbane lifestyle, or the ways in which they diverge from the socially-acceptable beauty standard."[7]
The Hollywood Reporter pronounced the show "horrifying," explaining "...you know this show is exploitation. TLC knows it. Maybe even Mama and HBB know it, deep down in their rotund bodies. Here Comes Honey Boo Boo is a car crash, and everybody rubber-necks at a car crash, right? It’s human nature. Yes, except that if you play that card, you also have to realize that human nature comes with the capacity to draw a line, to hold fast against the dehumanization and incremental tearing down of the social fabric, even if this never-ending onslaught of reality television suggests that’s a losing effort. You can say no to visual exploitation. You can say no to TLC. And you can say no to Honey Boo Boo Child. Somebody has to."[8]
The Hollywood Reporter stated that the premiere episode did well, "scoring a 1.6 in the coveted 18–49 demographic and notching a whopping 2.2 million viewers".[
Here Comes Honey Boo Boo
The cast of Here Comes Honey Boo Boo
Format Reality
Starring Alana Thompson
June Shannon
Jessica Shannon
Anna Shannon
Lauryn Shannon
Mike Thompson
Country of origin United States
Language(s) English
No. of seasons 1
No. of episodes 10
Production
Producer(s) Authentic Entertainment
Location(s) United States
Running time 30 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel TLC
Original run August 8, 2012 – present
Here Comes Honey Boo Boo is a reality television program on TLC which features pageant participant Alana Thompson (Honey Boo Boo), along with her mother June Shannon, father Mike Thompson and her three older sisters. The show is mostly filmed in and around the family's hometown in rural McIntyre, Georgia, United States.
Contents
1 Series overview
2 Reception
3 Episodes
3.1 Series Overview
3.2 Season 1 (2012)
4 Specials
5 References
6 External links
Series overview
Honey Boo Boo is best known for her sweet demeanor and appearance on TLC’s Toddlers & Tiaras. After a YouTube clip of Alana’s appearance from "Toddlers and Tiaras" went viral, TLC quickly offered the Thompson family their own reality show.
Alana Thompson was born August 28, 2005, to June Shannon and Michael Thompson, who have been together eight years but remain unmarried. They are portrayed as a blue collar family. Mike is said to work seven days a week in the chalk mines to support them. Thompson never graduated from high school. Shannon became pregnant with oldest daughter Anna at age 15 and had to drop out of high school. She later earned her GED.
Shannon considered giving Alana up for adoption before her birth but refused to sign away her parental rights, and is sometimes criticized in the media for having four children, each with a different father. Shannon is the star of the show as much as her daughter with her extreme couponing with her family at the Piggly Wiggly, farting, sneezing, bingo playing and even her ketchup and spaghetti recipes.[clarification needed] June Shannon portrays the head of the household as a loving redneck woman. She believes the show is a success because many lower income families identify with her family.
The family lives in McIntyre, Georgia. The average family in McIntyre is below the poverty line with a median household income of $24,028. The chalk mines are the principal industry in Wilkinson County.
Reality families usually make a salary 10 percent of a show's per-episode budget. Yet controversy stirred up when it was reported TLC was only paying the family between $2,000 and $4,000 per episode. Jon and Kate Gosselin of TLC's "Jon & Kate Plus 8," which first aired in 2007, earned $22,500 per episode. The Duggars of "18 Kids and Counting" are believed to be earning between $25,000 and $40,000 per episode. TLC says they're preparing for a second season and are in negotiations with the family regarding future earnings per episode.
Reception
Most reception to the show has been negative,[1] with some viewing the show as controversial.[2]
The A.V. Club called the first episode a "horror story posing as a reality television program",[3] with others worrying about potential child exploitation.[4]
James Poniewozik mostly praised the show, but criticized the producers for "the way that the show seems to assume that those viewers will look at this family and the world".[5]
A reviewer for Forbes criticized TLC as trying to "portray Alana's family as a horde of lice-picking, lard-eating, nose-thumbing hooligans south of the Mason–Dixon line", stating that "it falls flat, because there’s no true dysfunction here, save for the beauty pageant stuff."[6]
The Guardian also criticized the attempt to portray the Thompsons as something to "point and snicker at", saying, "none of the women or girls who participate in the show seems to hate themselves for their poverty, their weight, their less-than-urbane lifestyle, or the ways in which they diverge from the socially-acceptable beauty standard."[7]
The Hollywood Reporter pronounced the show "horrifying," explaining "...you know this show is exploitation. TLC knows it. Maybe even Mama and HBB know it, deep down in their rotund bodies. Here Comes Honey Boo Boo is a car crash, and everybody rubber-necks at a car crash, right? It’s human nature. Yes, except that if you play that card, you also have to realize that human nature comes with the capacity to draw a line, to hold fast against the dehumanization and incremental tearing down of the social fabric, even if this never-ending onslaught of reality television suggests that’s a losing effort. You can say no to visual exploitation. You can say no to TLC. And you can say no to Honey Boo Boo Child. Somebody has to."[8]
The Hollywood Reporter stated that the premiere episode did well, "scoring a 1.6 in the coveted 18–49 demographic and notching a whopping 2.2 million viewers".[