Sarah Palin's Alaska cancelled for "having no reality whatsoever"

[Initech]

Source: Suite 101
Only attracting 3.2 million viewers, Sarah Palin's Alaska has been cancelled by Discovery Communications, meaning it will not be airing a second season on TLC, or any other channel for that matter. According to award winning executive Mark Burnett, the show lacked reality and it was impossible to find any reality where there wasn't any. In other words, there wasn't any material worth filming.

Burnett states, “We knew we were in trouble during the first episode when we saw a polar bear just standing there, checking his watch and waiting for reality to kick back in, and everywhere you looked there were confused and bored puffins” These statements were made nearly a year ago before the show even aired.

Eileen O’Neill, president and GM of TLC, shared the sentiments of Mark Burnett when she declared,“We were confident ‘Sarah Palin’s Alaska’ would be compelling television, but there was just no reality there whatsoever. In the end, it just wasn’t fair to our audience or the puffins.”

O'Neill and Burnett aren't the only ones who addressed the show's cancellation. Sarah Palin herself addressed her Facebook "fans" in an attempt to smooth out and downplay the entire situation. Unfortunately for former Alaskan governor Palin, her statement only further sealed the fact that there simply was no reality in her show.

http://www.suite101.com/content/sarah-palins-alaska-canceled-after-only-one-season-a329924

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[freshwest]

1. Thank you, I so needed a laugh tonight.

[pinboy3niner]

2. LOL!

Oh, the huma...I mean, the puffins! :rofl:

[somone]

3. Just another way to fatten her bank accounts

[scarletwoman]

4. "a polar bear just standing there, checking his watch and waiting for reality to kick back in..."

That mental image just cracks me up! :D

Thanks for the laugh - good medicine.

[Rex]

5. And ANOTHER incredible REPUBLICAN failure comes to a close.

I guess big busniess has some kind of secret agreement with the Teabagger/GOPukers...nothing else explains why they (BB) love to watch failure like they do.

[Initech]

6. They seem to thrive on failure, don't they?

[Rex]

8. I guess it is where they got the idea of 'too big to fail'.

[kwolf68]

7. The fact she was given a show

on 'mainstream' media was a travesty.

She had NO business being provided a forum (for whatever) to begin with.

Glad she's gone.

Faux News should be opening up a slot for her soon.

[Contrary1]

9. An Alaskan blogger said they had to bring in a stunt double because Palin didn't know how

to hold a rod and reel, let alone catch a fish. Supposedly there were several local residents who witnessed the switch.
How's that for reality?

I hope they lost a ton of money.

[Initech]

10. I remember reading something about how they killed a deer...

Because they needed "food for the fridge". And the cost of packaging and preparing the deer meat came out to $142.10 a pound. A freaking POUND!!! And then the article said that they could have gone to some famous deli in Anchorage and bought strip steaks for $10.59 a pound. Now *THAT'S* reality!

[bhikkhu]

11. That's pretty typical - hunting is much more "elitist" than people think

For the most part, people spend hundreds of dollars per pound to stock their fridge by hunting. Its much more about balls, bragging rights and status, and you have to have serious money for it.

[NickB79]

16. I don't know where the Palin's have their deer processed

But here in central MN you can get venison processed and packed for under $2/lb by going to the local slaughterhouses, the small ones that also process livestock for farmers. If you really want to save money, you can do it yourself; it really isn't all that hard to do. Even factoring in the cost of a license, ammo, and a gun (spread out over the 50 years or more a gun will last), you can get lean, cruelty-free, largely organic meat for FAR less than what you pay at the store.

If it really cost $100/lb for processing of venison, the woods would be VERY empty come hunting season. You'd be looking at $10,000/deer!!! Anyone who believes that hundreds of thousands of hunters shell out that kind of money per year is insane.

On edit: approximately 2 MILLION whitetail deer and 1 million mule deer are killed each year by hunters in the US. 3 million deer, each dressing out at 100 lb, X $100/lb would come to $20 BILLION dollars per year on processing deer! Every year!

[Hannah Bell]

17. wasn't it because they had to fly into the back country to hunt in the first place & then fly

themselves & the deer out?

[Crystal Clarity]

20. That's actually not true

There are elitist hunters, I'll give you that, but they are very rare. At least where I live.

It costs as little as a $24 hunting license to get a deer. Most people don't buy all kinds of fancy equipment or hire someone to take them out on a plane. They wear their work clothes (w/the required amount of hunter orange) and take a walk out in their back-40.

My SO has filled our freezer w/venison that way for 11 of the 13 years he's been hunting this property. We don't even hire a butcher because a friend cuts it in exchange for a couple of packages of deer steak. On a tight budget like ours, the supplemental meat is very helpful.

This is how everyone I know hunts. The elitist types (usually from out-of-state) are uncommon and are the butt of many jokes among the locals.

Sorry to get off track though. The OP was very funny. SP's show was a joke.

[bhikkhu]

28. Thats the good way to do it

I don't know many who do, though.

It seems in my area most have hunting-specific vehicles, 4x4 trucks all decked out and ATV's for the purpose, then they spend hundreds a month at Cabela's for base-camp gear and outfitting. hundreds on fuel "scouting", a safe full of guns and thousands of rounds of ammo, etc...if you divide yearly expenditures by pounds of meat, it doesn't come out very well a lot of times...but if I had grown up hunting and knew how to butcher an animal, I'd probably try to do it the way you do.

[Occulus]

22. Not where I live

Where I live people eat it , sell it, or freeze it for later. But then, Michigan has way too many deer.

[Tyrs WolfDaemon]

12. I guess Palin was simply trying to kill Puffins in a new way - through boredom

[delightfulstar]

13. "Compelling" television, for sure...

So much so, that she compells me to change the channel every time I see or hear her.

[renate]

14. I thought she got HUGE numbers for the debut of her show

Which makes this so much sweeter. Was it so bad after just a few episodes that even the loyalists got bored and it got canceled? That is too fabulous!

I still want TLC to be punished for even signing her up in the first place. It makes no sense. Why would they pay her for that kind of face time? It'd be like paying me to win the lottery.

[safeinOhio]

15. Time to reload momma bear.

Get a job being a sports person on at a local station, like you have been trained to do.

[Blue_In_AK]

18. "Sarah Palin Sees Alaska for the Very First Time," you mean? n/t

[thaddeus_flowe]

19. to be fair,

Eileen O’Neill, president and GM of TLC, shared the sentiments, “We were confident ‘Sarah Palin’s Alaska’ would be compelling television, but there was just no reality there whatsoever."

to be fair when the president of most cable channels uses the word "reality" they mean the "reality" of jersey shore and other obnoxious nonsense.
what tickles me is that SP was either unable to spew enough nonsense to be cancelled,
or that she spewed too much.

[The Backlash Cometh]

21. I feel sorry for that poor moose.

[old mark]

23. There is not much reality to her entire life-why should the show be any different?

She is just a creature of the media who is cashing in on her momentary fame.


mark

[6000eliot]

24. I heard it reported the she "pulled the plug" on the show.

[Initech]

25. Nope.

[AspenRose]

26. So much for her 2012 political ad campaign on TLC.

I'm sure she'll find other avenues...and the media will give them to her readily.

[CraftyGal]

27. The one and only episode I watched, I kept wondering why she was so tough on the younger girl.

It bordered on abuse. I watched it out of curiosity and nothing more.

CraftyGal

[Jennicut]

29. Her 16 year old seemed to dislike her immensely and the cameras.

Maybe it was just me...I would hate my mother if she did that do me as a teen.

[CraftyGal]

30. Not very many 16 yr olds really want to hang with the adults...

especially parents.

CraftyGal

[jdp349]

31. lets hope her failure continues to snowball

Only a true poet could find the words to express my complete contempt for her