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Sarah Palin Asking for Over $1 Million Per Episode for Reality Show.
New York Magazine ^ | March 19, 2010 | Josh Duboff

Posted on 03/20/2010 4:58:36 AM PDT by BannedinBostonx

The project, which is tentatively titled Sarah Palin’s Alaska. Palin is asking for $1 million to $1.5 million per episode.

Sarah Palin is following a trajectory more Kardashian than politician, demanding a big paycheck in her quest for reality-TV stardom. After shopping her “TV docudrama” to major broadcast and cable networks, two channels — A&E and Discovery — have expressed interest in the project, which is tentatively titled Sarah Palin’s Alaska. Palin is asking for $1 million to $1.5 million per episode, considered a “hefty amount for a first-year cable series.” The show — executive-produced by reality-television guru Marc Burnett — will feature the former governor touring her home state, completing activities such as visiting fishing boats or trekking to a gold mine. There had better be a caribou-hunting episode or else this really has no business calling itself a Sarah Palin Alaska show.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: hollywood; kardashian; markburnett; notarealityshow; palin; palinperview; sarahkardashian; sarahpalin; sarahstar
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To: kjam22
I agree..... Palin is clearly not a serious leader. I pray our party can find heavyweights who can win this war.

Ah ha! A Huckabee supporter.


321 posted on 03/20/2010 10:14:36 AM PDT by Donald Rumsfeld Fan (Sarah Palin "the Thrilla from Wasilla")
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To: BannedinBostonx
$1 million fer episode! That's scandalous!

Hell, that's no less than what Julius Peppers makes for playing one game of pro football!

322 posted on 03/20/2010 10:16:08 AM PDT by HIDEK6
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To: EveningStar
This TV talk is just a clever feint...Palin is actually going to write an additional volume to Churchill’s “History of the English Speaking Peoples.”
323 posted on 03/20/2010 10:16:34 AM PDT by Dagnabitt (What (child) would Mohammad do?)
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To: r9etb
She doesn't have what it takes to be president. Maybe in 10 years she can, if she plays her cards exactly right -- but she's not close to ready now.

You are woefully misinformed.

Alaskan Fisherman talks about Sarah Palin

324 posted on 03/20/2010 10:25:54 AM PDT by Donald Rumsfeld Fan (Sarah Palin "the Thrilla from Wasilla")
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To: BannedinBostonx; EveningStar

Beats a Governor’s salary...


325 posted on 03/20/2010 10:26:50 AM PDT by wtc911 ("How you gonna get down that hill?")
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To: Oztrich Boy
Current events would indicate that's (FP expertise) not necessary.

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Really? Are you saying that you are satisfied with our dear leader's Foreign Policies?

326 posted on 03/20/2010 10:32:46 AM PDT by wtc911 ("How you gonna get down that hill?")
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To: BannedinBostonx; stephenjohnbanker; rabscuttle385; EveningStar; sickoflibs; All

Good for Sarah!

w/apologies to The Steve Miller Band...

“This heres a story about Sarah Palin and her man Todd,
The former Governor of Alaska, that got the VP nod,
Might have lost the ‘08 Election, but looked good on the tube,
And here is what happened when they finally did cut loose...

Attended a bunch o’ Tea Parties, in the Lower 48,
Squeezed in a book tour, and the people said she’s great,
Sarah got a gig on Fox News, the Left was set to wrassle,
Sarah said “you betcha boys”, for it was no big hassle...

Go on...

Sarah Palin has the money to run (run! run! run!)
Sarah Palin has the money to run (run! run! run!)
Sarah Palin has the money to run (run! run! run!)
Sarah Palin has the money to run (run! run! run!)

John McCain is a RINO down in Arizone,
Whenever he says “my friends” everybody starts to moan,
Sarah agreed to support him just for his re-election,
But J.D. Hayworth’s gonna win, it’s time for a new direction,

So go on...

Sarah Palin has the money to run (run! run! run!)
Sarah Palin has the money to run (run! run! run!)
Sarah Palin has the money to run (run! run! run!)
Sarah Palin has the money to run (run! run! run!)

Now Sarah has her sights set on a new reality show,
“Sarah Palin’s Alaska” (now where else would they go?)
Compensation for each episode? A cool million or so,
Todd will need an industrial snowmobile to haul away all the dough,

And we’re all singin’,

C’mon Sarah, you got the money to run (run! run! run!)
C’mon Sarah, you got the money to run (run! run! run!)
C’mon Sarah, you got the money to run (run! run! run!)
C’mon Sarah, you got the money to run (run! run! run!)”

(thank you very much, thank you very much... ;)


327 posted on 03/20/2010 10:33:14 AM PDT by mkjessup (God, Guns & Guts made America free, we need to keep all three.)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner; silverleaf
She's clearly following Reagan's roadmap to the White House, mile marker by mile marker.

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Exactly, her "I quit" speech was almost word for word what Reagan said when he quit halway through his first term as governor...

328 posted on 03/20/2010 10:36:24 AM PDT by wtc911 ("How you gonna get down that hill?")
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To: Non-Sequitur

Of course she’s running, just not officially she’s the most articulate person in America right now. She can speak w/3 words on her hand better than Premier Achmed can w/3 Telecrutches.

Pray for America and Gov Palin


329 posted on 03/20/2010 10:36:38 AM PDT by bray (Throw All the Bums Out, starting with McCain)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner
and would move there in a heartbeat if only Mrs. VR would agree

If she ever visited it once, she would agree don't you think?

330 posted on 03/20/2010 10:37:27 AM PDT by Glenn (iamtheresistance.org)
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To: Donald Rumsfeld Fan

Lots of these Anti-palinistas are just mad cause there’s no army forming behind Ron Paul. Although there is a nice little firing squad forming in front of him.

PRay for America and Gov Palin


331 posted on 03/20/2010 10:39:41 AM PDT by bray (Throw All the Bums Out, starting with McCain)
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To: Bob J
If you don’t think Sarah Palin’s “image” was, has and still is being carefully crafted over her few short years in politics, there is little hope for you.

Huh? That's nonsense. Who did the crafting? McCain's campaign staff? Throwing her to the MSM wolves (Couric , Gibson etc) isn't exactly what I would characterize as careful.


332 posted on 03/20/2010 10:47:30 AM PDT by Donald Rumsfeld Fan (Sarah Palin "the Thrilla from Wasilla")
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To: bray
Oh please save your condescension for someone else.

Nah ... I gave it to you, because you so clearly needed it.

333 posted on 03/20/2010 10:50:58 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: r9etb

How is that Paul campaign going?? Think he’ll break 5 this time?

Pray for America and Gov Palin


334 posted on 03/20/2010 10:57:29 AM PDT by bray (Throw All the Bums Out, starting with McCain)
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To: r9etb
Why, yes -- sophisticated answers would be a very fine thing. I want a sophisticated president, because we live in a complicated world where real problems have to be addressed carefully, and cannot be solved by slogans and folksy mannerisms. Surely Obama has taught you the truth of that?

Discussions about what to do with China, Iran, Russia, economic issues, and the like ... those ought to merit sophisticated thought, shouldn't they?

Do you, the self-styled pundit, really think that a president doesn't need to be capable of making and dealing with sophisticated arguments?

As Reagan would say "Mr Gorbachev 'tear down this wall"; or "how about we win they lose".

Famous statements by Reagan who was thought of as an unsophisticated dunce by his betters who came from Harvard and other citadels of "sophistication".

335 posted on 03/20/2010 11:03:49 AM PDT by Donald Rumsfeld Fan (Sarah Palin "the Thrilla from Wasilla")
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To: raybbr

I would...and I live there


336 posted on 03/20/2010 11:05:50 AM PDT by hattend (The era of John McCain is over, the era of Ronald Reagan is back! Go Sarah Go!)
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To: Star Traveler
I see you wouldn't make a successful executive in these types of shows...

I never said I would.

Besides, who claims that the Ice Road trucker show is a success? Any links to ratings?

I say the show with Palin would probably be interesting but I doubt that it would last long.

Unless she's going to show ANWAR and how desolate it is to show how drilling would be okay how many people would actually tune in every week to see something about it?

337 posted on 03/20/2010 11:12:08 AM PDT by raybbr
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To: r9etb
You, however, are on the Palin=Reagan bandwagon. The burden of proof is on you.

Sarahs Notes on her Facebook are damn good and have been published in the WP and WSJ amoung others.

338 posted on 03/20/2010 11:14:16 AM PDT by Donald Rumsfeld Fan (Sarah Palin "the Thrilla from Wasilla")
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To: Theophilus
I've been reading Michener's Alaska and the place is absolutely fascinating. I'd love to go, if I had the means. I would certainly watch a show about it.

I read it years ago. I read about two-thirds and when he hit the 20th Century I lost interest because it just didn't have the intrigue to me any longer. Maybe you will find it different.

I've read eight of his books. Alaska is only one I didn't finish.

339 posted on 03/20/2010 11:17:06 AM PDT by raybbr
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To: mkjessup

LOL!!

Sarah can make 50+ million in the next couple of years.
Especially if she can keep a several million people thinking she might run for POTUS ;-)


340 posted on 03/20/2010 11:20:39 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Support our troops, and vote out the RINOS)
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