Sarah Palin's Alaska (tv program)

In my review Tuesday night of Bristol Palin's new reality show on the Lifetime channel, I said that I had come to believe that the Palins were history. The mass audience no longer cared about Sarah, Bristol, Willow, Todd or any of the other characters...

According to Entertainment Weekly, former Gov. Sarah Palin's reality TV show, “Sarah Palin’s Alaska,” won’t return for a second season. Despite having consistent ratings of more than three million viewers, Sunday night's two-...

The claim that "Sarah Palin's Alaska" is a wholly apolitical travelogue-cum-family tableau, meant only to showcase the rugged beauty of our largest state and the just-folksiness of its former governor, lasts about five minutes into the first episode....

Sarah Palin has once again refudiated her detractors. The critics may not have loved her new TLC reality show, but the former Alaska governor proved she is ratings gold. "Sarah Palin's Alaska" was the most-watched series launch in TLC history,......

It’s time once again to look at the messages Sarah Palin and company are sending with her ostensibly apolitical new reality show. In this week’s episode, we visited the shooting range where Sarah’s girlfriends held her first baby shower an...

It's a flippin' big rollback, is what it is. The second episode of "Sarah Palin's Alaska" on TLC premiered Sunday with 3 million total viewers, according to the Nielsen Co. That's still a hefty audience by basic-cable standards, but it's......

"My dad's one of the best fishermen around," says Track. "I got big shoes to fill."...

Having watched three full episodes of “Sarah Palin’s Alaska,� I am still amazed that Palin seems to interact with her family the exact same way she interacts with the American public: by continually saying anything that will appeal to her....

Everyone supports physical fitness, it appears, until first lady Michelle Obama calls for it. That's where the sensible folks begin to split off from the wingnuts. Fortunately, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, now a...

On Sunday night’s episode of “Sarah Palin’s Alaska,� we learned that it’s all well and good to enjoy the beauty and power of wild animals from a distance, but it’s even better to kill 'em and chop 'em up. Also,......

Comedy or gratingly awful whining (take your pick) ensues....

There are certain ideas that sound brilliant to reality TV producers, and to no one else in the world. "Conveyor Belt of Love." "Fat March." The all-too-straightforwardly named "Hurl." And now we can add: Kate Gosselin and her eight children......