''Made in Staten Island'' is a short-lived American

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that premiered on

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on January 14, 2019 in the

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. The show followed eight young adults living in

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, trying to avoid the influence of local organized crime. The program was described as "''

Mob Wives ''Mob Wives'' is an American reality television series that premiered on VH1 on April 17, 2011. The show focuses on the lives of several women residing in the New York City borough of Staten Island, whose family members and husbands have been arr ...

'' for the MTV crowd". It was the network's second attempt to create a Staten Island-focused reality series, after 2010's aborted ''Bridge & Tunnel''. The show only aired three episodes all together before the series was quietly ended; all mention of the series has also been expunged from MTV's websites. In March 2020, MTV announced that it did continue to work with the subjects of ''Made in Staten Island'', but had decided to take a different focus and shift more to showing their families in full. The new version of the series, ''

Families of the Mafia ''Families of the Mafia'' is an American reality television series that premiered on MTV on April 9, 2020 in the United States. The show is a retooling of the short lived '' Made in Staten Island''. Its predecessor focused on the lives of seven ...

'', premiered on April 9.

Cast members

Christian Patterson and Karina Seabrook on Valder Beebe

* Karina Seabrook * Paulie Fusco * Kayla Gonzalez * Christian "CP" Patterson * Dennie Augustine * Taylor O'Toole * Joe O'Toole * Jordan "Bones" James

Episodes

References

{{MTVNetwork Shows MTV reality television series 2010s American reality television series 2019 American television series debuts 2019 American television series endings Television shows set in Staten Island