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Guess Which Channel Is Making ‘Big Fat Gypsy Weddings’

Written by Matt Ufford / 04.13.11

“Big Fat Gypsy Weddings” — a docu-series that details the lives of Romany Gypsies and Irish Travellers — was a huge hit in the United Kingdom, and now it’s coming to America on… wait for it… waaaaaaaaait… TLC. Of course TLC. The series will start its American run in late May, and then TLC will follow that up with an American version. Of course an American version.

Much of the show focused on the groups’ elaborate ceremonies, especially weddings, and on the differences between the sexes in this closed society, of which little is known in the outside world…

TLC will also air a new, American version of “Big Fat Gypsy Weddings,” set to premiere early next year and currently casting in the Southeast. It may or may not keep the same title. [NY Post]

I suggest “America’s Next Top Carnie Wedding.” Who knows, maybe those gypsies have huge families with, like, eight or ten kids. Boom, spin-off! Whoever runs TLC has the easiest job in America. “Now go out there and find me some goddamn mole-people!”

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Matt Ufford posted

"Guess Which Channel Is Making ‘Big Fat Gypsy Weddings’"

  1. 04.13.11 at 4:44 pm
    Danger Guerrero

    Oh fuck me.

    (*crosses “Big Fat Gypsy Weddings” off list of ideas for second idiotic TV pitches post*)

  2. 04.13.11 at 4:45 pm
    IHTGMM

    I KNEW it! Oh, that’s the point. Well shit…

  3. 04.13.11 at 4:50 pm
    heinz

    Well, I can totally relate to that, because I was born in the wagon of a travelling show and my momma used to dance for the money they’d throw…

  4. 04.13.11 at 4:51 pm
    essequemodeia

    I wanna see “The Real Mutant CHUDS of New York.”

  5. 04.13.11 at 4:52 pm
    Finnigan T. Dressup

    How ’bout “Hillbilly Honeymoon”? Duff can make them a f*cking cake that looks like a still.

  6. 04.13.11 at 4:59 pm
    The Hammer

    TLC should be legally forced to change their name at this point. FreakTV would probably be the best fit for a new name.

  7. 04.13.11 at 5:10 pm
    La Schmoove

    I can’t WAIT to see the Stevie Nicks episode!

  8. 04.13.11 at 5:24 pm
    Mel Got Served

    Oh man- this show looks terrible…

    /sets DVR series recording

    What, I love British people.

  9. 04.13.11 at 6:24 pm
    Probably Misses His Old Glasses

    So we are all silently in agreement that you can see the big pink girl’s nipple, right?

  10. 04.13.11 at 6:38 pm
    clueheywood

    Bravo has a competing show called “The Real Itinerant Shoplifters and Roofing Scammers of North America.”

  11. 04.13.11 at 8:36 pm
    Martin

    I once saw a documentary on PBS about gypsies in America where people were, in the years immediately following World War 2, would yell at them that they wished Hitler had finished the job.

    This is a much worse fate for the Roma people. Death is death. Being treated like the rest of the carny folk on TLC just means they’re fucked for another century.

  12. 05.21.11 at 10:32 pm
    brandy riddle

    As a Roma ( gypsy ) woman I wanted to just post these people the filmed in the original U.K. version are not Gypsy they were Irish Travelers . I have been to many gypsy weddings and never seen any of the crap they aired ever happen . The show has offended many actual REAL gypsys and gave us a very bad name . I for one will not be watching it but due to the shock and ignorance of the show content I am sure it will be a huge hit .

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    05.07.12 at 6:50 am
    Kessie

    Real american t.v. Classics are not found on tlcthat station is for cheesy ideas we let other places come up with n use as a cheap form of pure entertainment. We come up with HOLLYWOOD movies that others take n usually subtitled, cause thats where real talent shines. Oh I’m sorry your budget couldn’t make the Titanic …ooo what a shame

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