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'''''Here Comes Honey Boo Boo''''' is a [[reality television]] program on [[TLC (TV channel)|TLC]] that features [[beauty 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, a town in [[Central Georgia|Middle Georgia]] east of [[Macon, Georgia|Macon]].
'''''Here Comes Honey Boo Boo''''' is a [[reality television]] program on [[TLC (TV channel)|TLC]] that features [[beauty pageant]] participant Alana "Honey Boo Boo" Thompson, 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, a town in [[Central Georgia|Middle Georgia]] east of [[Macon, Georgia|Macon]].


The Thompsons originally gained fame appearing on TLC’s ''[[Toddlers & Tiaras]]'', which follows the lives of child beauty pageant contestants and their families.<ref name=FoxNews>{{cite web|url=http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2012/09/28/how-to-cook-like-honey-boo-boo/|title=How to Cook like Honey Boo Boo|publisher=[[Fox News Channel]]}}</ref>
The Thompsons originally gained fame appearing on TLC’s ''[[Toddlers & Tiaras]]'', which follows the lives of child beauty pageant contestants and their families.<ref name=FoxNews>{{cite web|url=http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2012/09/28/how-to-cook-like-honey-boo-boo/|title=How to Cook like Honey Boo Boo|publisher=[[Fox News Channel]]}}</ref>

Revision as of 23:06, 23 October 2012

Here Comes Honey Boo Boo
File:Here Comes Honey Boo Boo.jpg
The cast of Here Comes Honey Boo Boo
StarringAlana Thompson
Jessica Shannon
Anna Shannon
Lauryn Shannon
Mike Thompson
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes10
Production
ProducerAuthentic Entertainment
Production locationUnited States
Running time30 minutes
Original release
NetworkTLC
ReleaseAugust 8, 2012 (2012-08-08) –
present
Related
Toddlers & Tiaras
Honey Boo Boo: Family Sized

Here Comes Honey Boo Boo is a reality television program on TLC that features beauty pageant participant Alana "Honey Boo Boo" Thompson, 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, a town in Middle Georgia east of Macon.

The Thompsons originally gained fame appearing on TLC’s Toddlers & Tiaras, which follows the lives of child beauty pageant contestants and their families.[1]

Ratings and reception

The series premiere episode attained a 1.6 in the 18–49 demographic, attracting 2.2 million viewers.[2] The series was one of TLC's highest-rated shows in its first season.[3] The fourth episode, airing on the third night of the 2012 Republican National Convention, attracted almost 3 million viewers and scored a 1.3 rating with those 18-49, the highest rating that night with the age group of any cable program.[4] Although about 20 million in all were watching the convention, with the 18-49 audience, Fox News' convention coverage was second in the time period with a 1.2 rating, followed by NBC coverage with 1.1.[5]

Critical reaction to the series has been mixed, with some characterizing the show as "offensive", "outrageous" and "exploitative", while others calling it "must-see TV".[6][7]

The A.V. Club called the first episode a "horror story posing as a reality television program",[8] with others worrying about potential child exploitation.[9]

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".[10]

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."[11]

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."[12]

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."[13]

June Shannon herself has been criticized for her daughter's diet, which includes "Go Go Juice", a mixture of Red Bull and Mountain Dew that contains as much caffeine as two cups of coffee. The mix is used to get HBB ready for pageants. Shannon has responded to this criticism by saying, "There are far worse things...I could be giving her alcohol."[1] She has also been praised by Mother Nature Network for the "keen business sense" with which she feeds her family on $80 a week by clipping copious coupons, playing Bingo, exploiting roadkill and acquiring child support checks from each of her four children’s fathers.[3]

The animated TV series South Park lampooned the show's stars in its season 16 episode, "Raising the Bar".[14]

Episodes

No in
Season 		No in
Series 		Title Original air date Production
Code 		U.S. viewers
(million)
11"This Is My Crazy Family"August 8, 20121012.25[15]
22"Gonna Be a Glitz Pig"August 8, 20121022.14[15]
33"She Oooo'd Herself"August 15, 20121032.05[16]
44"I'm Sassified"August 15, 20121041.94[16]
55"What Is a Door Nut?"August 22, 20121052.33[17]
66"A Bunch of Wedgies"August 29, 20121062.99[18]
77"Shh! It's a Wig"September 5, 20121072.39[19]
88"Time for a Sketti!"September 12, 20121082.15[20]
99"Ah-choo!"September 19, 20121092.15[21]
1010"It Is What It Is"September 26, 20121102.75[22]

Specials

TV Guide confirmed, when Here Comes Honey Boo was renewed, that three specials will also be airing, for Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.[23]

References

  1. ^ a b "How to Cook like Honey Boo Boo". Fox News Channel.
  2. ^ "TLC's 'Honey Boo Boo' Scores Winning Ratings With Series Premiere". Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 14 August 2012.
  3. ^ a b Hickman, Matt (September 27, 2012). "Honey Boo Boo's Guide to Thrifty Living". Mother Nature Network.
  4. ^ O'Connell, Michael. "'Honey Boo Boo' Ratings Top the Republican National Convention". Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 11 October 2012.
  5. ^ Gye, Hugo (31 August 2012). "Don't blame me... I voted for Honey Boo Boo! Pageant star's reality show beats Paul Ryan's convention speech in ratings". Daily Mail. Retrieved 11 October 2012.
  6. ^ Venutolo, Anthony. "'Here Comes Honey Boo Boo': Revolting, or amusing? Or revoltingly amusing?". NJ.com. Retrieved 10 August 2012.
  7. ^ Day, Patrick (August 9, 2012). "Debut of 'Here Comes Honey Boo Boo' stirs strong viewer reaction". LA Times. Retrieved 10 August 2012. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |newspaper= (help)
  8. ^ McGee, Ryan. "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo". AV Club. Retrieved 10 August 2012.
  9. ^ Dos Santos, Kristin. "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo: Hilarious Guilty Pleasure, or the Worst Thing Ever?". E! Online. Retrieved 10 August 2012.
  10. ^ Poniewozik, James. "The Morning After: Honey Boo Boo Don't Care". Time Magazine. Retrieved 10 August 2012. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  11. ^ Bricklin, Julia. "TLC's 'Here Comes Honey Boo Boo' Isn't All That Bad". Forbes. Retrieved 14 August 2012.[dead link‍]
  12. ^ Carpentier, Megan (13 August 2012). "Here comes Honey Boo Boo's surprising home-truth". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 August 2012. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |newspaper= (help)
  13. ^ Goodman, Tim (22 August 2012). "'Honey Boo Boo': That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 12 September 2012.
  14. ^ "[[Raising the Bar (South Park)|Raising the Bar]]". South Park. Season 16. Episode 9. October 3, 2012. Comedy Central. {{cite episode}}: URL–wikilink conflict (help)
  15. ^ a b http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/08/09/wednesday-cable-ratings-dallas-wins-night-here-comes-honey-boo-boo-restaurant-impossible-daily-show-melissa-joey-futurama-the-exes-more/144373/
  16. ^ a b http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/08/16/wednesday-cable-ratings-royal-pains-wins-night-shark-fight-storage-wars-texas-here-comes-honey-boo-boo-more/145110/
  17. ^ http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/08/23/wednesday-cable-ratings-royal-pains-here-comes-honey-boo-boo-win-night-storage-wars-texasnecessary-roughness-baby-daddy-melissa-joey-more/145944/
  18. ^ http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/08/30/wednesday-cable-ratings-here-comes-honey-boo-boo-wins-night-fox-rnc-coverage-storage-wars-texas-royal-pains-american-hoggers-daily-show-more/146753/
  19. ^ http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/09/06/wednesday-cable-ratingshere-comes-honey-boo-boo-wins-night-dnc-coverage-royal-pains-ghost-hunters-storage-wars-texas-real-world-more/147571/
  20. ^ http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/09/13/wednesday-cable-ratings-here-comes-honey-boo-boo-rules-again-royal-pains-sons-of-guns-restaurant-stakeout-storage-wars-texas-more/148497/
  21. ^ http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/09/20/wednesday-cable-ratings-royal-pains-here-comes-honey-boo-boo-win-night-american-hoggers-challengerestaurant-impossible-ghost-hunters-more/149380/
  22. ^ http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/09/27/wednesday-cable-ratings-here-comes-honey-boo-boo-wins-night-south-park-premiere-the-challenge-battle-of-the-seasons-daily-show-restaurant-impossible-more/150395/
  23. ^ Gennis, Sadie (September 27, 2012). "Here Comes More Honey Boo Boo". TV Guide.
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