Discovery Communications acquires rights to Sarah Palin’s Alaska series
By APThursday, March 25, 2010
Sarah Palin’s Alaska series to appear on TLC
NEW YORK — Sarah Palin’s travelogue series about Alaska has landed at the TLC network, and filming is set to begin this summer.
Network owner Discovery Communications announced Thursday that it had acquired rights to the eight-part series, produced by “Survivor” producer Mark Burnett. The deal lands “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” on the network that also airs “Jon & Kate Plus 8,” ”Cake Boss” and “I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant.”
The series tells stories of some of Alaska’s unique features as seen through the eyes of its former governor.
Burnett and Palin had been pitching the series to various networks in recent weeks and had been asking for $1.2 million an episode, considered expensive in the world of nonfiction television. Discovery got the series for about $1 million an episode, according to two television executives familiar with the deal who spoke on condition of anonymity because their networks don’t discuss such details publicly.
No air date has been set for the series.
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April 8, 2010: 11:43 am
Sarah Palin on anything to do with the environment? |
 kyle |
March 26, 2010: 10:23 am
you are asking sara to do your tv deal and comment on her half term. she doesnt even know what is going on in alaska. she has lied about pretty much everything. she doesnt even like mccain and now shes going to back him. they dont get more to faced then she is. and now you want her to talk about alaska. come on she could see russia from her back door. you people must be pretty hard up. |
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