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Who Are Netflix Trainwreck's P.I. Moms and Where Are the Former Reality TV Stars Now - Manchester Evening News
SAN FRANCISCO, USA, JUL 22 – Netflix's Trainwreck: P.I. Moms documents how a planned 2010 reality show disguised a drug trafficking ring led by Chris Butler, who was sentenced to eight years in prison.
- A reality TV show titled P.I. Moms featuring a group of soccer moms as private investigators was commissioned by Lifetime Networks but never aired due to scandals surrounding the involved parties.
- Chris Butler, the owner of the investigation firm, was arrested and later pleaded guilty to serious felony charges, including drug trafficking and extortion.
- The series ultimately got canceled as Butler's criminal activities and internal sabotage thwarted its potential, leaving the moms without the show that was supposed to empower them.
- The production faced sabotage from Carl Marino, who informed media and law enforcement about Butler's illegal operations, contributing to the show's cancellation before it ever aired.
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'P.I. Moms' Showrunner Lucas Platt Says Convict and Former Detective Chris Butler Was 'the Weak Link' of the Cast
"I was concerned because quiet, inarticulate, awkward characters in reality TV are death," Platt says in the new Netflix documentary 'Trainwreck: P.I. Moms'Netflix P.I. Moms showrunner Lucas Platt (left) and detective-turned-convict Chris Butler.The showrunner of an unaired reality series is getting candid about the show's failure to launch. In 2010, the Lifetime network greenlit P.I. Moms, a reality show following a group of mothers who worked …
The True Story Behind Trainwreck: P.I. Moms
On August 24, 2010, Pete Crooks, a senior writer at Diablo magazine, received a call from a Los Angeles-based publicist representing Chris Butler’s private investigation firm. The pitch he got was intriguing: Butler had hired a group of local mothers to run surveillance on cheating husbands, and business was beginning to boom. The firm was featured in People, The Today Show, and Dr. Phil—and most recently, Lifetime Television had just greenlit a…
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