‘Here Comes Honey Boo Boo” … again.
TLC is expected to announce that 9-year-old Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thompson and the gang from McIntyre, Ga. — mother June “Mama June” Shannon, dad Mike “Sugar Bear” Thompson and sisters Jessica (“Chubbs”), Anna (“Chickadee”) and Lauryn — will return for a fifth go-’round premiering in January.
“Here Comes Honey Boo Boo” averaged 1.8 million viewers this past season, which ended Aug. 14 — down from 2.5 million viewers the season before (January through March 2014), according to Nielsen.
The show’s inaugural season, which aired from August 2012 through February 2013, averaged nearly 3 million viewers.
The series was originally spun off from “Toddlers & Tiaras,” on which Alana appeared.
What could go wrong?
It’s come to this for John Rocker.
The ex-major leaguer — who insulted New Yorkers of every stripe in a 1999 Sports Illustrated article — will appear on the new (29th) season of “Survivor,” which begins Sept. 24 on CBS.
Rocker, now 39, will compete with his girlfriend, 34-year-old Julie McGee, who’s described as a “model” and the owner of spray tan business. Of course she is.
In that ’99 SI article, Rocker — then pitching for the hated Atlanta Braves — complained about “having to take the 7 Train to the ballpark looking like you’re riding through Beirut next to some kid with purple hair, next to some queer with AIDS, right next to some dude who just got out of jail for the fourth time, right next to some 20-year-old mom with four kids.”
There was more, but you get the drift. He eventually apologized and was suspended for the first 28 games of the 2000 season.
Oh, and in a 2006 Deadspin interview, Rocker called the writer of the SI article, Jeff Pearlman, a “liberal Jew from New York. He’s one of their own,” and referred to former Braves GM John Schuerholz as “a piece of s**t.” In 2011, he admitted to using steroids. ‘Nuf said.
Last, but not least …
The summer finale of “Pretty Little Liars” on ABC Family was the show’s second-most-watched episode of the season (2.3 million viewers) … James Oseland (Bravo’s “Top Chef Masters”) has been named editor-in-chief of Rodale’s Organic Life Magazine … Clothing time: “Dressing America: Tales from the Garment Center” premieres Sept. 2 on Ch. 13 (10 p.m.). It’s a look at the Jewish immigrants who put NY’s Garment District on the map.