‘Life Below Zero: Next Generation’ & ‘Port Protection Alaska’ Set Return Dates (PHOTOS)
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If you’re a fan of the Emmy award-winning Life Below Zero franchise, you’re going to want to tune in to National Geographic on Tuesday, January 18.
That’s the day that both Next Generation and Port Protection Alaska return, for their fourth and fifth seasons respectively, back-to-back beginning at 8/7c, TV Insider has learned exclusively. Scroll down to check out photos from both.
In Season 4 of Life Below Zero: Next Generation, Alaskans work to prepare for winter’s return as bears awaken. We see Chris and Jessi Morse defend their home, and Sonta and Chevie Roach teaching their children survival skills. Meanwhile, Johnny Rolfe looks for food in new territory and the Rowlands complete necessary building projects. The father-son duo of Robert and RJ Miller work as a team to provide food for themselves as well as the village elders. Plus, Alex Javor settles in at Deadman Lake.
Then in Season 5 of Port Protection Alaska, following a terrible tragedy, the longtime residents of the village join forces with newcomers to save a disappearing way of life in that isolated part of the state. In the midst of an unforgiving wilderness, they must work together to find food, build homes, and repair a deteriorating infrastructure before it’s too late to save the community.
Both shows are produced by BBC Studios’ Los Angeles production arm for National Geographic.
Life Below Zero: Next Generation, Season 4 Premiere, Tuesday, January 18, 8/7c, National Geographic
Port Protection Alaska, Season 5 Premiere, Tuesday, January 18, 9/8c, National Geographic
Life Below Zero: Next Generation
Chris and Jessi Morse in a canoe on the Cosna River
Sonta Hamilton with her daughter Sydney holding a traditional fish net
Alex Javor sets a fishing line during winter.
Chris and Jessi Morse gardening
Kaleb Rowland packs supplies onto his snow machine while his kids help.
Port Protection Alaska
Matt Carlson leads Morgan Turcott on her first deer hunt.
Sam Carlson saws aluminum poles in order to make a dive ladder for his boat.
Carl places barrels under his float house in order to prevent it from sinking.
Curly Leach plants seedlings in his new garden bed.
Sam Carlson and David Squibb make critical repairs to the water cannon they removed from the town’s fireboat.
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The new couple on Port Protection just run their mouths cussing and acting stupid. Bragging about how good of a shot she is. I don’t like them at all… I’m going to ff through their segments. They don’t fit in at all. Their language makes the show bad. Please take them off
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Before you all come on here saying ppl on the show are fake or they can't do it, think of the fact that they live there, they do it everyday. You don't get cast for the show and then move there, therefore how could they be faking it knowing they k ived there already by choice before being part of the show. Morgan liked in a small town in Alaska well before she moved to Pp and wanted less convenience and moved there to kearn more and do more. She already had what it takes to live in Alaska and wanted to still be more remote. They all probably do more in a month than you do in 3 months or more, so shut up idiots. Try it before you mouth about some I ne else who is doing it.
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I love this show even if the new people are false. I just fast forward thru those parts. I record every time it’s on and I hope it continues for a long time. It intrigues me. I love Alaska.
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Who are you or anyone else able to call them fake while you just sit at home watching. They are there doing it while you watch and you have the nerve to call them fake.
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I too love Port Protection but I miss the two that have passed. This new group are not pleasant to watch. I can see this type of jerks here at home by looking out of my window. Pay Sam more money and have him the pivotal person. He is Port Protection. I love Curley even if he is a lousy shot. The vulgar new men need to grow up and leave town. I also like the cigarette smoking stringy haired fellow. He and Sam are worth watching together. Sam’s son is also fun to watch. You are ruining the show with these horrible new low class people. I am sorry but you need to make a positive decision to keep us entertained. Love the premise of this show!!!
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I truly LOVE life below ZERO, BEST show ever, I hope you continue ❤️
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Why don't you try living there. Morgan is trying very hard to learn. Just watched her first deer hunt and they almost got one, she was so eager and you could see in her eyes the determination when they finally seen one and she almost got a shot. You can't fake that. Like I said to other people here, it is easy to sit on your couch in modern civilization and judge the ones out there. Morgan does more in a day living there probably than you have to do in a week and even if it isn't out of want she has to, she can't put it off until tommorow and can't just say we will get water tommorow or kets just go buy a case or screw hunting kets just go to the grocery store. She moved there wanting and eager to learn and is doing it on every episode and she is doing well. Most people wouldn't even try. It isn like Ike she got cast first and moved there after. Nat geo doesn't cast people for the show from town or the city to go live there and be on the show and just because you move there doesn't mean you are on the show. She has been in Alaska long before she moved to Port Protection and most people couldn't even handle living in Alaska in a town or city as the daylight and long colder than most places winters and 24 hour days and 24 hour nights isn't for everyone, so if she is living in Alaska already and then m9ves out into the bush to PP she obviously already has proven she has what it takes to libmve in Alaska and wants to do more. Open your eyes and close your mouth Karen
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Port Protection : Who is running the bar there ?? Judging by David 's baggy eyes, I'd say that someone needs to know when to say " When. " Curley must be ordering out pizzas or something......he ain't catching that many deer and/or moose.....the whole place is a scripted event this season. What a shame......And, where did Mary get her tan !!?? There's just too many bad actors there now......except for Sam. They've all been corrupted by their various appearance fees as doled out by Nat. Geo I'm thinkin'.
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Let's see you go.out there and live for a month and see how well your language is at the end if it... you wouldn't make it. Sitting at home running your mouth about ppl who do more in a week than people who live in civilization do in 3 months.
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Port Protection truly is a village that is fading away; last census per 2020 there were about 36 people officially calling the place home; previously, there were about 68 people listed as residents from the census as of about 2010. Numbers don't lie. If the current cast of the ' Port Protection ' show are the future of the place, than PP really is in trouble. I think I've watched my last episode now.....tired of the whiny, and self-indulged mentality of, as an example, that blonde-haired girl with the tight jeans who knows nothing about which end of a chainsaw to use...or, how to hunt for a deer....Why would someone of her useless talent move to such a remote place when she so obviously possesses no skills other than to dress for the camera while her beau does all of the work at hand ?? Sam is the real deal there.....a true survivor in every sense of the word; by his own admittance though, age is not being kind to him now , and having lived such a physically difficult life there for his entire life. He tries to instruct these newbies, however, they are not equipped to learn his hard-earned lessons about life in the community there. Is Port Protection a dying community now ? Sadly, the future looks very bleak especially considering the newbies who are never going to make it on their own, as they are not the future for that place.
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Port Protection is not the same show that it was. The ' new ' cast of characters/residents are a disappointing lot of spoiled and non-functioning individuals not up to the task of living so remotely in that village. The Old School with Sam is the only reason I tune in.....he's the real deal. The cast of wanna-be's will bail once they get a check or two under their belts from National Geo. Oh well...was a good run while it lasted.
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The music is WAY to much!!! Life below zero next generation. Tone it down ALOT. I like the show but music is way overbearing. Hate to stop watching due to this issue for me.
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