For those wondering if Sarah Palin would make the leap to series television, the answer is in: “You betcha.”
The 46-year old former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate has signed a deal with Discovery Communications for an eight-part documentary series tentatively titled, Sarah Palin's Alaska. The show will “reveal Alaska's powerful beauty as it has never been filmed” through Palin’s eyes, and will be produced by reality czar Mark Burnett, who counts Survivor and The Apprentice among his credits.
Though additional details remain spotty, the show will air on Discovery’s female-friendly cable network TLC, known to many as the former home of other polarizing stars, Jon and Kate Gosselin of Jon and Kate: Plus Eight fame. (Palin’s daughter Bristol will be making her Hollywood debut as well, appearing in a summer episode of ABC Family's teen drama The Secret Life of the American Teenager.)
Rumors of a Palin series have been circulating for weeks, with early speculation that broadcasters like NBC may have interest. More recently, A&E Networks was allegedly in the running for a program bound to get ink (as for viewers, it’s too early to know). In the end, according to Variety, it was cable behemoth Discovery that was willing to shell out more than $1 million per episode for the Palin-hosted travel series.
source:http://blogs.forbes.com/bizblog/2010/03/25/sarah-palin-goes-hollywood/
