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MTV kills ‘Buck’

MTV has canceled “Buckwild” a week after the death of star Shain Gandee — and series producer JP Williams is peeved.

“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 [mudding] and they cancel the show?” Williams told the Hollywood Reporter, alluding to MTV’s “Teen Mom.”

“There’s something that smells of sh-t here on every level.”

Williams says he was told last Friday — four days after Gandee, 21, and two other men died from carbon monoxide poisoning — that MTV would continue “Buckwild” and shoot four more episodes to finish the second season.

But, late Tuesday, MTV canceled the series — which was likened to a West Virginia version of “Jersey Shore” — “after careful consideration,” it said. “We love the cast and the show, and this was not an easy decision, but given Shain’s tragic passing and essential presence on the show, we felt it was not appropriate to continue without him,” it said in a statement.

MTV will re-air the first season of “Buckwild” on Sunday, followed by “Buckwild: WV to NYC.”

Williams says he plans to continue shooting the series and to produce a “Buckwild” movie.

“My job is to protect these kids,” he told the Hollywood Reporter. “This will get ugly.”