PALIN TV

The girl everyone loves to hate is getting her own TV show. The former Vice Presidential candidate, best-selling author, and Fox News Commentator now has another opportunity to annoy her enemies.

TLC has picked up her eight-episode TV series with the working title, Sarah Palin’s Alaska, after the other networks turned it down. She will reportedly earn over a million dollars per episode. It will be a documentary-style travel show which explores the picturesque state of Alaska. The show will fit both Discovery Communications and Palin like Alaskan beaver mittens.

I can guarantee that despite it’s non-antagonizing nature theme, it will be the most polarizing show on the tube. Fans will eat it up, and haters will scornfully despise it. The “environmental extremists” that oppose her because she’s not a proponent of “man-made climate change” will scorn her further. You can bet it will generate a lot of buzz.

The Huffington Post is already baring its claws. In their coverage of the show, they said:

“It is a strange move for Discovery — the purveyor of such classics as “Planet Earth” and “Life” and the parent of Planet Green and Treehugger — to sign with Palin, whose anti-nature stances include denying climate change, supporting aerial wolf-hunting, and, most famously, “Drill baby, drill!”

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But lest you think there will be any agendas, the show will be free of politics. Just an insider’s look into the state she loves so dearly.

“Discovery Communications is so excited to help Sarah Palin tell the story of Alaska,” said Discovery Communications Chief Operating Officer Peter Ligouri. It is interesting to note that Ligouri used to be the head of Fox Entertainment in the “Family Guy” dispute. He was just the guy that she was crusading against, besides McFarlane, of course.

“Family Guy,” is the Seth MacFarlane series which had Chris date a girl with Down Syndrome. She told him that she is the daughter of a former governor of Alaska. This, of course caused Palin to go on the war path against “Fox Hollywood,” saying the show had slammed her little son Trig, who also has Down Syndrome, and that it was just the latest “kick in the gut” against her, adding on her Facebook page that it “begs the question, ‘When is enough enough?’”

Apparently she’s decided to bury the hatchet. (I have to say, she’s a better woman than I).

While I am very excited about her new show, I hope it doesn’t interfere with her running in the 2012 election. But if anyone can juggle it, Sarah can.

c. 2010