MTV
This is a victory for intelligent human beings everywhere, so I expect a lot of really pissed off comments. When I wrote about the death of Buckwild star Shain Gandee a week back, I got a ton of hate mail from subnormal West Virginia rednecks who couldn’t believe that I had the gall to suggest that getting stuck in a truck filling up with carbon monoxide and not opening the window wasn’t a smart thing to do. Seriously. Here’s an excerpt from one:
Boy I’m glad you don’t live in WV because we believe God forgives,, so you better hope he forgives you on you Igonrant judgeing of this kid.
Cool first grade spelling and grammar, bro. Nice stuff.
MTV announced that, in light of Gandee’s death doing the kind of dumb things he was filmed doing for the show, that they can no longer produce new episodes, so the show is cancelled. They’re still airing the episodes completed before Gandee’s death, obviously – why throw money away? – but they won’t make any new ones, leaving the eight surviving cast members to fade into meth-soaked obscurity.
One person who isn’t happy about this is the show’s producer, J.P. Williams, who isn’t going to let a little blood on his hands dissuade him from making the worst, most morally repugnant television imaginable. In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, Williams went off on the network, commenting:
“This is the network that has shows about teen pregnancy. They’ll stick by a show that allows you to abandon a child, but a kid dies by accident doing what he does for a living, and they cancel the show? There’s something that smells of s— here on every level.”
Uh, I don’t think Shain Gandee drove trucks into the mud drunk at 3 in the morning for a living. My high school career counselor never told me that was an option. Williams also said that he would not give up on his redneck muses, saying that he would develop a Buckwild feature film instead.