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Sarah Palin Fails To Find Buyer For Latest TV Show
Telegraph(UK) ^ | December 13, 2011 | Nick Allen

Posted on 12/13/2011 6:02:00 PM PST by Steelfish

Sarah Palin Fails To Find Buyer For Latest TV Show Sarah Palin has so far failed to find a buyer for her latest television show idea in a further sign that her star is on the wane.

In the last few years Sarah Palin has made millions of dollars from two books and numerous public appearances By Nick Allen 13 Dec 2011

The former Republican vice presidential candidate's new proposed foray into reality TV would focus on her husband Todd's career as a champion snowmobile racer. It would be a follow up to "Sarah Palin's Alaska," an eight-part travelogue which was sold to The Learning Channel (TLC) for more than $1 million an episode and first broadcast in November last year.

That show followed the former Alaska governor and her family around the state, including footage of her shooting a caribou on a hunting trip, going on a deep sea fishing expedition, and visiting a logging camp. It broke ratings records for a first episode on TLC, drawing more than five million viewers. However, it dropped to three million for the second episode and received mixed reviews, with entertainment industry bible Variety commenting "Boring? You betcha".

Discovery Communications, which owns TLC, has not bought the latest idea for a Palin show. Cable and satellite broadcaster A&E Networks, which bid for the previous series, is also reportedly not interested.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: palin; realityshow; realitytv; sarahpalin; snowmobileracing; toddpalin
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1 posted on 12/13/2011 6:02:03 PM PST by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

Nobody can stay on top forever.

Hopefully she was smart enough to save all the dough she was making.


2 posted on 12/13/2011 6:04:25 PM PST by Jonty30 (If a person won't learn under the best of times, then he must learn under the worst of times.)
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To: Steelfish

Maybe if the stardom fountain goes dry, she’ll go back into politics. Can’t shake off the notion that Republicans who can stay in the private sector and many of those who can’t... get elected to something.


3 posted on 12/13/2011 6:07:06 PM PST by yup2394871293
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To: yup2394871293

she decided not to run so she could do nonsense like this ?


4 posted on 12/13/2011 6:08:26 PM PST by se_ohio_young_conservative
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To: Steelfish
The former Republican vice presidential candidate's new proposed foray into reality TV would focus on her husband Todd's career as a champion snowmobile racer.

I think this means she's more popular than Todd.

5 posted on 12/13/2011 6:09:32 PM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Steelfish

She would do better as a talk show host. It still says she gets 1M/year from Fox.


6 posted on 12/13/2011 6:10:18 PM PST by lahargis (Rick Perry is our energy candidate! Perry 2012!)
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To: se_ohio_young_conservative
she decided not to run so she could do nonsense like this ?

It would seem so. Hopefully she goes away for good this time. Frankly, I never got what all the fuss was about.

7 posted on 12/13/2011 6:11:33 PM PST by Poison Pill (Obama is the hopium of the masses)
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To: Steelfish

When she decided not to run, she became irrelevant to most of her supporters.

She wanted out, and now she knows that most of us agree.


8 posted on 12/13/2011 6:18:11 PM PST by Randy Larsen (I'm backing out!)
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To: Steelfish

I would be interested in the snow-mobile racing part.

Todd is a cool dude.

It’s funny that although it happens all the time, they never report on *anybody* else who gets their program ideas rejected by *two* networks.

I think someone is purposely trying to marginalize Sarah Palin. She takes a couple months off and all of the sudden they are saying that she is fading.

2012 will be a historical election year. Although the Establishment on both sides don’t want outsiders to be part of it, especially when they are talking about cleaning up crony capitalism and their corrupt political system, rest assured that both Sarah Palin and the Tea Party will be the determining factor in the outcome of the races.

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9 posted on 12/13/2011 6:19:26 PM PST by bobk333
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To: Steelfish

It is difficult to believe that there is not a market a reality show of a middle age guy riding a snowmobile.


10 posted on 12/13/2011 6:19:42 PM PST by trumandogz (If Rick Perry cannot secure his own Internet domain name, how could he be trusted to secure America?)
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To: Steelfish

Another Palin hit-piece. Sorry, but Paling is still an intriguing figure whom political hacks and insiders hate.


11 posted on 12/13/2011 6:20:49 PM PST by sagar
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To: Steelfish

TV channels are all run by leftists these days


12 posted on 12/13/2011 6:21:06 PM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: se_ohio_young_conservative
she decided not to run so she could do nonsense like this ?

I doubt that Trademark ever intended to run.

13 posted on 12/13/2011 6:21:56 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: Steelfish

I fear Sarah is like others that choose to make money off our miserable situation.

I’m through buying books from and watching anything about these people.
Money is to be made off the debacle that IS little Stevie Dunham, but none from me-I have to buy food and ammo.

Take your “reality” shows, books and websites and stuff ‘em.


14 posted on 12/13/2011 6:23:46 PM PST by Mortrey (Impeach President Soros)
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To: Moonman62

Sarah was pretty and had a political mouth on her that we all liked, but somewhere in the middle of failing to do her homework and pretending a campaign, because it was too much trouble, the Trademark looked easier and told us instantly of her intentions. What she promotes outside of politcs, I for one, would have zero interest in hearing about, certainly not Todd, or how to build a snow mobile, or Alaska, or anything else having to do with how to be a tomboy. She has squeezed about the last turnip for cash.


15 posted on 12/13/2011 6:24:41 PM PST by RitaOK (wRasmussen- the polling standard for accuracy.)
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To: Steelfish
I suppose that if the networks were to turn down a TV show of Callista Gingrich baking cookies, that would be an indication that Newt's star is on the wane.


16 posted on 12/13/2011 6:26:51 PM PST by SamAdams76 (I am 51 days away from outliving Marty Feldman)
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To: Steelfish

“In the last few years Sarah Palin has made millions of dollars from two books and numerous public appearances By Nick Allen ...”

And boy is Nick mad!

(I couldn’t help it!)


17 posted on 12/13/2011 6:27:47 PM PST by mrsmith (Start electing a 'Tea Party' Majority Leader in 2012 now!)
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To: Steelfish
You fools don't understand! This is almost the culmination of her Sun Tzu Strategy of deception before she is elected!

/s

18 posted on 12/13/2011 6:27:57 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (You know, 99.99999965% of the lawyers give all of them a bad name)
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To: Randy Larsen
Randy Larson wrote:

When she decided not to run, she became irrelevant to most of her supporters.

She wanted out, and now she knows that most of us agree.

Almost all of Sarah Palin's supporters still strongly support her.

I don't think you were ever a supporter. I looked through your history and there is not a single post or sentence in her favor. You look like a pro-Gingrich Establishment type, desperately trying to protect a corrupt politician and a political system.

It is the Gingrich supporters who are currently bashing Sarah Palin and the Tea Party.

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19 posted on 12/13/2011 6:28:09 PM PST by bobk333
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To: Steelfish

I liked Palin’s Alaska.

I guess we can look forward to Herman Cains, “Restauranteur”


20 posted on 12/13/2011 6:28:42 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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