'Sarah Palin's Alaska' Scores Massive Ratings for TLC

By Zach Dionne Posted Nov 15th 2010 03:04PM

'Sarah Palin's Alaska' Scores TLC's Highest Ratings Ever

'Sarah Palin's Alaska' set a ratings record for TLC on Sunday night, notching 5 million viewers for the premiere, a number Gawker calls "huge for cable."

The show, part reality TV, part documentary travel series, is an eight-parter following the omnipresent Republican showing off her native state.

"Some are calling the series a 2012 campaign ad," notes The Hollywood Reporter, "while producer Mark Burnett [of 'Survivor' fame] has defended the show as 'completely non political.' "

Although TLC has recorded higher viewer counts -- hi, 10 million fans of 'Jon & Kate Plus Eight'! -- 'Sarah Palin's Alaska' wins the biggest premiere award by a mile.

And lest ye forget Bristol Palin's continuing saga on tonight's 'Dancing With the Stars,' the 'Alaska' star's daughter told E! Online: "We are competing for ratings!"

Tags: Alaska, Sarah Palin, TLC

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Monday 15 November

By arrr39

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Sarah is great and really annoys the liberals.

By Mike L

This will set the liberals on the lunatic fringe.

By cathylint

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[BlackwhiteCupid is] widely considered to be the greatest s''ingles club ever by millions of 's'ingles, about half of which have actually found ma'tches from it.
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

By Roby

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Well,Your half right:(

By Don Peters

I am a liberal and I think she is great.

By jhgkjhfhgfhjgfdh

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[w w w. d e a r s a l e s . c o m ]

Here have what you need!

It's very good!

Tuesday 16 November

By Kenny Del Lago

To Mike:
You are one honest repub, like me. John Boehner, McCollom and Bachmann are going to screw up so bad that there will only be Tea people left...and they will lose all seats...I blame the liberal media for paying attention to the worst repubs they can find...Also realize that extending those tax cuts will only add billions to the debt. Dumb move.

Stay well.
Ken

By MAGOOS

The GOP mistakenly launched this opportunist on a path to great wealth. Hopefully the trusting people who supported her will now see how misplaced their hopes were. Politics was just a springboard for this woman.

She is an opportunist only to those who are insanely jealous of her.

By lesturgill

Magoos....how appropriate, since you are so obviously near-sighted.

By jsrshcrk

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Would you like some liberal stinky cheese with your WHINE!!!?

By Mike

This just shows how blind and stupid "Cons" are.

By acemakr9

Well you do have the Kardashians, Snooki, the real housewives and all of the MTV shows to be proud of!!!You liberals really know entertainment!! DOLT!!

By slyfox

LMAO. See the stupid liberals are totally out of touch with America. I can hear the libs. squeeling now.

By J.

So, she had good ratings. I wouldn't expect anything else. All of the lemmings are staring in the same direction just before they go off a cliff. Same thing.

I enjoyed it, she's a refreshing change from the depressing liberal drones who are so afraid of her and what she can initiate such as we saw in the election. I wish I could have that lifestyle myself. Keep driving the libs nuts Sarah, it's indeed fun to watch their heads explode.

By georgy

No kiddin. You can hear em all squealin here on this blog. You know, this kind of criticism is always around. Some people first of all don't know how good they have it, and think we have time to waste.Fact of the matter is, we don't have time to waste and there really needs to be some economic change in this country. Obama goes around the world announcing that WE, the U.S., is no longer the super power it once was, like that's supposed to make our relationships with the other countries more even. Screw that; he wasn't even in the U.S. for Veterans Day. Now what's up with that. He is not one of us, nor does he want to be a part of us.

By jim

For a belly full of laffs, just wander over to one of the more vicious lefty websites. It is so obvious there's a lot of beet red faces and forehead veins popping out over the success of Sarah's Alaska on TLC. Average liberal blood pressure must be 800/600 by now, and of course, the obligatory nasty name-calling that is the hallmark of the leftie is always entertaining.

By mike

you people are delusional, this woman is getting rich off stupid people like you who drink her cool aid. And guess what, I am a republican, not a liberal and she is going to cost us the presidency in 2012. Wake up folks, she is not electable!

Wednesday 17 November

By wendy

I missed the show. We have dish satellite network. I looked all over the channels for it. Is that a premium channel? I love, love, love Sarah and everything she stands for!!

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