Just eight months after canceling “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo” after Mama June Shannon reconnected with a convicted sex offender, TLC faces a strikingly similar controversy over its top-rated show, “19 Kids & Counting,” with the admission of child molestation by the Duggar family’s oldest son, Josh.
Is the network just unlucky, or did its executives (and show producers) fall down on the job?
A prominent reality executive speaking on the condition of anonymity told TheWrap both “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo” and the Duggar show, which launched in 2006, may have bypassed the network’s usual vetting process.