Via Ben Smith, word of former Alaska governor Sarah Palin's next big payday: "Discovery Communications is expected to announce that it has won the Sarah Palin tourney. The cabler had been a front-runner to land the untitled Alaska-themed series, to be produced by Mark Burnett Prods.... Show is believed to have fetched more than $1 million an episode — a hefty pricetag for a freshman unscripted cable skein." But what might the show really be about? Funny you should ask.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
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They're just trying to prove the accuracy of the 27 "Nostradamus: Armageddon" specials they've aired recently.
Theme song? Please?
Oh man, Def Leppard are so underrated! I think the opening credits for the show should open with the bear slippers though.
Oh my god! I've never heard that song before, but that is just a carbon copy of Photograph, no?
The riff is almost identical, and then the chord progression for the chorus...it's the same song, different words. What a recipe for success!
That picture makes her look like she's in a remake of "The Sound of Music*," which, in a way, she is.
(A film that alerted the world to the sad plight of wealthy Austrians who escaped the Third Reich.)
Or a square-dancer on the Hee-Haw set.
I keep linking to this Onion article, but it just keeps getting more and more relevant.
Science channel refuses to dumb down science any further
Ugh, I know. Remember when the Discovery Channel (also A&E, TLC, et al) used to be about... not... crap and mental fodder?
Just play 'Shark Week' all the time you twits.
We've been pitching them a lot lately and the feedback you get is hilarious/sad - like Conan-era 'Simpsons' shit.
I remember when A&E used to show ballets and operas and shit!
Goons - I would love to know the sort of shows they reject and why. Excerpts?
haha, A&E. Law and Order and Steven Segal from now on. Live with it, suckas!!
Remember when it was the West Wing channel? Anything to amortize those high production costs for mature series.
Suffice to say 'too high concept'; 'not Middle America enough'; 'Can we make it less about *this* and more about *this*?'
ad infinitum.
Goons any change since Ligouri took over?
Yes, but it remains to be seen.
He actually nixed something of ours that the development people really liked.
*grumble*
History Channel was playing on the teevee in a taco shop the other day. I had not seen it in years, since it was lovingly known as the Hitler Channel for near-constant World War II documentaries.
The show playing was a "how to" kind of thing showing how to cut down a tree. That was the show. Metal guitar riffs, cameras flying around, some fat guy in lumberjack shirt, and it was about cutting down a single tree.
I left before the next show started: It was called "Food Tech" and, I do not lie, was going to tell people about a mysterious thing that LIVES IN PIZZA DOUGH.
Ken - It was the Hitler Channel as recently as 3 years ago. But last year, at a friend's, I channel surfed past it and the entire lineup was UFOs, cryptozoology, and (tellingly) "Did Jesus' miracles really happen?"
Goons - That does at least explain the constant iterations of "The Fancy Guns that Blow Stuff Up Real Good Like in Space Movies Show."
Alas, I know the fellow who (behind the scenes) was responsible for the dramatic change in the History Channel lineup.
He was my college roommate, and is one of my best friends.
And he is evil.
This sounds like the recipe for a fascinating profile piece. Like the guy who designed Comic Sans, but better.
Whatever your pitch is, end it with "and of course, there will be little people."
They love little people.
But how else are the children going to learn about the Tek Wars?
@hockeymom: Little people are really more up TLC's alley, not Discovery.
Yes, but she spent, what, 3 years as Governor, and so 1 million dollars an episode divided by 3. . . . No, nevermind, that's pretty damn good.
They've already done one series on how the dinosaurs became extinct, so why not a sequel on palintology?
I certainly hope her show does cross-over guest star episodes with " I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant".
Sadly I don't think it will be anything like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AokQXcMm1dI&feature=related
Hm...what about 'Celebrities Dancing with Sarah Palin in Alaska'?
Hopefully her reality show will also end abruptly somewhere in the vicinity of the 'Grizzly Maze.'