Both TLC and A&E have rejected a follow-up series to Sarah Palin’s Alaska following Todd Palin’s activities as a snowmobile racer that is being produced by Mark Burnett. Burnett and Sarah Palin are pitching the new series “focused on Palin’s husband Todd and his career as a championship snowmobile racer,” according to The Hollywood Reporter, …
The Social Network and West Wing writer Aaron Sorkin has written a takedown of Sarah Palin’s Alaska, the TLC series that on Sunday featured Sarah killing a caribou, which the network heavily promoted but which was ultimately watched by fewer viewers. The whole thing was pretty ludicrous, especially when Sarah insists, “the animals have the …
Sarah Palin’s Alaska had TLC’s highest-rated debut ever last night, as close to five million viewers tuned in to a show that cost the network about $1 million an episode. That’s about half the record number of viewers Jon & Kate Plus Eight got when they separated. A TLC press release said that it “is …
A trailer for TLC’s upcoming docudrama Sarah Palin’s Alaska has been released, and focuses more on Sarah Palin and her family than Alaska. When the Mark Burnett-produced show was announced, it was described as “a new eight-part documentary series about the remarkable Governor Palin and her home state of Alaska,” and an executive said it …
When TLC showed footage of Sarah Palin’s Alaska to ad buyers and others in April, they laughed, and not in the good way. So it will be really interesting to see the reaction to the series now that Kate Gosselin and her kids are going to be featured on it. The network announced that yesterday …
A preview for Mark Burnett and Sarah Palin’s TLC reality show was shown to ad buyers, and the reception was extremely poor, according to a report. An anonymous Discovery Communications source told The Huffington Post that “the whole thing [was] comical” and “When the promo was over, people (employees and buyers) were rolling their eyes, …
TLC has acquired the reality show that Sarah Palin and Mark Burnett had been shopping to networks. Currently titled Sarah Palin’s Alaska, it is described in a press release as “a new eight-part documentary series about the remarkable Governor Palin and her home state of Alaska.” Discovery COO Peter Liguori said in the release that …