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Palintology: Discovery Gives Palin Her Own Reality Show

It’s official. You will now be able to not just watch Sarah Palin offering sage political advice on Fox News, but then switch over to Discovery Channel to watch her new reality show. In a reported $1 million per episode deal, Discovery will feature interesting people and things in Alaska with Palin as the guide.

The show is the brain-child of reality-TV rainmaker Mark Burnett and “will center on interesting characters, traditions and attractions in the 49th state – with the ex-VP candidate as a guide.”

My immediate reaction to this news is how far the Discovery Channel has descended into cultural junk. The channel was once a fascinating collection of shows on science-related subjects that elevated the overall quality of television. As with the History Channel (discussed earlier) with such mindless shows as Ax Men and Ice Road Truckers, Discovery now shows such junk television as American Chopper and Ghost Lab. The Channel has gone from featuring the likes of Carl Sagan to Sarah Palin. That is a study in de-evolution.

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62 thoughts on “Palintology: Discovery Gives Palin Her Own Reality Show”

  1. No as I understand it, Hollywood does not care for the Palin ideology. I heard this from a person that has money and is a Producer in Hollywood and worldwide for that fact.

  3. Blouise & Blind Faithiness–

    Speaking of Palin giving the Ruskies the evil eye: One million dollars an episode is a hefty hunk o’ change. On air, I’ll bet Sarah will be singing, dancing, staring–and “Putin” on the Ritz!

  4. Blind Faithiness

    The whole show will be Palin giving the Ruskies the ‘evil eye’ from her kitchen window. It’ll be like a weekly, 30 min, one-person staring contest just to show how tough she can be.

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    Good morning laugh … thanks

  5. rcampbell–

    “Can one really go from Governor to VP candidate to quitter speaking tour to reality show to being taken at all seriously as a Presidential candidate?”

    I’ll respond with two words often employed by ex-governor Palin when asked a question: You betcha!

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    “This should almost certainly serve as proof she doesn’t plan a run for the White House, shouldn’t it?”

    I would think–and hope–so!

  6. Sure AY, but Palins career seems to be going the opposite way to Rayguns. Luckily.

  7. rcampbell,

    Do not forget RWR that went from a Grade B actor, Informant, Governor, to the Whitehouse.

    Then you have RMN that quit a number of times.

    Then the rest is his story.

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  9. This should almost certainly serve as proof she doesn’t plan a run for the White House, shouldn’t it? Can one really go from Governor to VP candidate to quitter speaking tour to reality show to being taken at all seriously as a Presidential candidate?

  11. eniobob,

    I had read that and questioned why the FBI took over the investigation, but figured it was because of renting a vehicle in NJ.

  13. Actually American Chopper got switched to TLC in 2007 after the focus changed from the building of bikes to the interpersonal relationships.

    Of course TLC is an even worse example of an interesting channel getting slowly changed into a ‘reality’ wasteland.

  15. Will this be one of the shows topics?

    :Gang problem in Anchorage is real

    By Mike Dingman
    Alaska Standard Contributor

    At two o’clock on a Sunday morning – after an all-night underage drinking party – a 17 year old girl was shot and killed on the front lawn of a Muldoon home. Neighbors tell the Anchorage Daily News that this residence has been a persistent problem for loud noise, underage drinking and other problems in the area. Even that night, multiple calls by multiple neighbors were made to Anchorage Police complaining about the noise, traffic and drunken juveniles wandering around the neighborhood.

    http://www.thealaskastandard.com/content/gang-problem-anchorage-real

  16. The whole show will be Palin giving the Ruskies the ‘evil eye’ from her kitchen window. It’ll be like a weekly, 30 min, one-person staring contest just to show how tough she can be.

    Maybe in the background you’ll here her daughters practicing abstinence with their boyfriends…..

  17. What is good about this is she has a short attention span, so do most people. Alaska was the 49th state, that is good, I would have to hear them call it Alaska 50. That is good. Will it make it past 49 minutes? That is the question….

    How many times can you shoot Moose out of a Helicopter. I bet they don’t show the devastation from the Valdez…..

    I wonder what won’t be shown, the decline of the commercial fisheries, that each resident gets money from the state for the natural resources….. even the Indians….

  18. Tea Party Convention Organizer Sued Over ‘Rock Star’ Palin’s Speaker’s Fee
    3/24/10 at 6:23
    Sarah Palin speaking at the convention.

    The Tea Party Convention is over. But the war it started is apparently just getting under way. Yesterday, Bill Hemrick, a conservative fund-raiser and the founder of the Upper Deck baseball trading-card company, sued the for-profit convention’s organizer, Judson Phillips, in Williamson County Circuit Court in Tennessee, in a dispute over Sarah Palin’s speaking fee. When Palin agreed to deliver the keynote address at the convention, it put the event in the news. And it was Hemrick, all agree, who provided the $50,000 down payment for Palin’s $100,000 speaking fee. In the suit, Hemrick claims that Phillips had agreed that, in return for helping to close the deal with Palin, Phillips would assist Hemrick with his National Fiscal Conservative Political Action Committee. But after taking the money, Phillips didn’t live up to his part of the deal, and even barred Hemrick from attending the event at all. Hemrick is seeking a minimum of $500,000 in damages and asserts that Phillips defamed him by badmouthing him after their falling-out over Palin.

    http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/03/tea_party_convention_organizer.html#ixzz0j8Z1G2JR

  19. I hear that the working titles are “Ice Road Sarah’s Axe Moose Hunt,” or “American Chatter.” Personally, I like the title “Myth Makers” but Discovery already has two wacky guys who blow things up to see if they really blow up! Sarah is fascinated by them, one supposes, as she is with shiny objects and Magic Eight Balls.

  20. The silver lining to this cloud is that Gov. Quitter has finally found a job she’s capable of doing, something just shy of an anchor position on local TV News, what is essentially an infomercial host job. It has the same parameters Don Henley noted of newscasters, “Well, I could’ve been an actor, but I wound up here/I just have to look good, I don’t have to be clear/Come and whisper in my ear, give us dirty laundry.” Or as a former associate used to say, “Pimping is pimping” be it trafficking in human misery as news or for the Alaska Board of Tourism and Discovery Networks.

    Discovery! Such wasted potential. Waste not or get watched not. Bad channel! Now get under the TV before I have to get out a rolled up newspaper.

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