‘Alaskan Bush People’ New Season Premiere Date Revealed
Well, that was unexpected.
When Discovery Channel announced that its nature documentary series (yes, Discovery still airs those) Serengeti would air Sundays beginning August 4, I breathed a sigh of relief, assuming that it meant we’d be spared from new episodes of Alaskan Bush People at least until the fall.
Instead, Discovery will try to boost ratings for its least prestigious show by putting it on immediately after one of its most prestigious. Beginning Sunday, August 4, Serengeti (8/7c) will be followed by the midseason premiere of Alaskan Bush People (9/8c) and new episodes of Raising Wild (10/9c).
Serengeti and the return to its former 9/8c Sunday time slot should help Alaskan Bush People, which saw significant audience declines when it aired in the spring at 10/9c on Sundays following Naked and Afraid.
There were only five episodes in the first half of Alaskan Bush People Season 9ish, and there will probably be as many in Season 9.5ish. Expect the birth of Mother Ami’s grandbaby Elijah Connor to be prominent. We’re also expecting to see footage of Gabe and Raquell’s second marriage ceremony, which took place in June.
Raising Wild debuted in early June and aired two low-rated episodes before going on hiatus. Viewers were quick to point out that the characters and events in Raising Wild had a striking resemblance to those already seen in Alaskan Bush People. I figured that Discovery threw in the towel on Raising Wild, but it’s going to try to salvage the show by pairing it with ABP, which it should’ve done to begin with.
Will this finally be the end of ABP? Will Raising Wild be the heir apparent? Probably not, on both counts.
But one interesting development is Discovery’s business model for financing series. It has the potential to really put the screws to smaller production companies like ABP‘s Park Slope, as they’d have to front the money to produce their show and Discovery would still own the property. Stay tuned.
Alaskan Bush People Season 10ish premiere, Sunday, August 4, 9/8c, Discovery Channel
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Gee, just make my July.
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ABP is the undead and can never be killed. But even they are trending down and without the Alaskan backdrop I don't see what the draw is for people. Raising Wild showed us that life in the Washington countryside isn't exactly a recipe for success. I am still amazed how bad the ratings were for that show. When you can barely break into the top 50 for Sunday night cable ratings while losing out to Food Channel reruns... Yikes! I was reading some unofficial Facebook fan page for Raising Wild (Yes there is one and looked like they had about 20 fans... double yikes) and they said they heard that Discovery was talking about bringing it back in the fall. Sounded more they they hoped than they had any real information. With those anemic ratings I highly doubt they are going to roll that into their fall lineup. But I never thought about them having ABP followed by Raising Wild. That would have been a great idea as you already have the ABP in the genre as Raising Wild. Great idea I didn't think of. Ryan, would you please get a job with Discovery and kill off ABP for us? It seems like the only way it will go away.
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I watched the two episodes of Raising Wild, and it was worse than Alaskan Bush People. I never thought I would see anything worse than the Brownclown show, but Raising Wild is hideously bad.
First, the patriarch of the Raising Wild clan, after being shot in the back by a colleague (In viet nam, they called it fragging) moves his ragtag clan up the Washington mountain, and they don't know how to do anything. The second episode revolved around the psychodrama of a lad who wants to be a chef, killing a chicken to feed the clan. Given the heft of some of the family members, the chicken wouldn't be an appetizer for them, much less an entree.
They did a fake dangerous trip to haul the semi-trailer up the hill, bumping into rocks along the road they built. Why did they not move the rocks first? They had the equipment.
The clan also built a green house out of logs, with a covered roof and lots of gaps for the warm air to escape. And they filled it with large plants, apparently misunderstanding what a greenhouse is for.
The patriarch is in constant pain from the fragging, and is stupid to be up the hill. And his children are more stupid than the Brownclowns.
Beam me up, Scotty. No intelligent life exists in Washington.
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I never watched Raising Wild as ABP has ended any hope of me tuning into any programming if it is within a ten foot pole of bumbling idiots trying to live in the wild. I am still a bit surprised how much worse you say it is then ABP. That is really saying something. But it lasted all of two episodes so it had to be pretty darn bad.
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You are really a snarky one aren't you??
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