Posted Thursday, May 3, 2018 by RODNEY HO/rho@ajc.com on his AJC Radio & TV Talk blog

TLC has given its latest obesity-themed series "Family by the Ton" a second season, according to the Georgia Film & TV Office.

The show aired six episodes earlier this year featuring a trio of morbidly obese metro Atlanta-based family members.  Naomi Anderson, Chitoka Light and Drew Stewart are cousins who weighed a combined ton at the start of the series but have since had surgery and taken major steps to lose weight.