12 Awful TV Shows That Were Cancelled Before You Even Saw Them

2. All My Babies' Mamas

Back in the late 80s, Saturday Night Live ran a sketch called My 75 Kids about Cecil Jacobson, a fertility doctor who used his own sperm to impregnate women, and may have had up to 75 natural children. All My Babies' Mama is kind of like that, except it's not a joke, it's a reality show commissioned for Oxygen that followed the exploits of rapper Shawty Lo, who is the biological father of eleven children by ten different women, and if that isn't a recipe for good reality drama, nothing is. Unsurprisingly, the show was mired in controversy and faced protests from NAACP and other black advocacy groups, who claimed that the show featured insulting stereotypes of the nature of black families in the United States. In a television landscape that features a lack of black representation, it could be potentially harmful for a show like All My Babies' Mamas to seemingly confirm a cultural stereotype. Oxygen quickly backed down from the issue, and cancelled the show before airing a single episode.