VH1 has ordered a second season of the hit television series “Mob Wives,” produced by Ben Silverman’s Electus and slated to return this fall. “Mob Wives” tells the tale of four Staten Island women whose husbands or fathers are in hot water for mob-related activities. VH1’s Executive VP for Original Programming and Production Jeff Olde boasted “Mob Wives” is “loud, bold and authentic.” The VH1 exec went on to say that when he met the women from “Mob Wives” for the first time, he thought: “you couldn’t write this stuff.”
“We walked out of the room and I said, ‘I don’t know how we don’t do this.’ They’re great characters with a unique point of view who live in a very specific sub-culture,” Olde said.
The show’s creator and executive producer Jennifer Graziano is a real-life mob daughter herself. All four female leads — Renee Graziano, Drita D’Avanzo, Carla Facciolo and Karen Gravano — will return for the second season.
Graziano’s father, Anthony Graziano, is the current consigliere of the Bannano crime fimaly. D’Avanzo’s husband has served time for drug dealing and bank robberies. Facciolo’s father, who is the former boss of the Lucchese crime family, is spending the rest of his life in prison. Gravano’s father, Sammy “The Bull” Gravano, is now a federal informant after serving as an underboss in the Gambino crime family.
VH1 also renewed reality series “Love and Hip Hop” and plans on resurrecting the old music-centric series “Pop Up Video” with the show’s co-creator as the new executive producer.
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