ugh.. Discovery Channel Alaskan Bush People hype / BS

[clemsonfor]

I don't find much worthy of watching on TV, but it is pretty sad to see the extent to which the discovery Channel has fallen. Anyone who watched the first series of "Alaskan Bush People" knows a few things about them. Like the fact that they moved into the Alaskan interior in late fall without funds or a plan and were going to freeze to death. They ended up loaning and borrowing supplies from all sorts of strangers so that they could build their house. Then they were never going to get it done in time and several of the locals pitched in to help them get a roof over their head before they woke up cold blue and dead.

Then had 1 or 2 individuals fire shotguns in their general direction at night, which caused them to pack up and leave the next day.

Now in the nightly preview which they have to run at least every half an hour, papa Brown makes statements like "Nobody is going to stop the Browns" and "We don't need the outside world". Seems that the actors and the producers seem to think we all have a short memory.

"Alaska the last Frontier" seems to be at least a relatively honest portrayal of a homesteading family, and "Gold Rush" seems to finally be reaching a point where the people seem to have an idea what they are doing.

i am a self defined relaity tv *****. I love these shows and most all alaskan shows. I watch almost any man-type show and all the survival shows.

You have to take what it is for what its worth. Use the internet and find out whats real and whats for the show. I recently read a article on them. That first "remote location" was in a subdivision. Yes it was remote and a country setting for use in most of the lower 48 but for alaska standards it was not. I think much of that was for the show. There were no shots fired at them, the State troopers were not called...dont you think they would be on something like that. What did happen was the neighbor got tired of the crew helicopter flying over for filming and one night when the chopper flew low over them he fired motar type fireworks in its direction. The troopers were called on that and it was captured on film my the chopper crew. that never made it on the show cause it would spoil the show remote nature. The guy said he had enough and the chopper would not come over when he repeditly flagged them and his young son was trying to sleep. This is backed up by the FAA who fined the guy for endangering and fireing things in the direction on the aircraft.

Bush people i dont think was the hit when it first came on..i think it got big in reruns?

Like the show mick dodge he dosent live in the woods nor does he wear leather chlothes for the show. The producers wanted him to wear them to look the part. He did not like it cause he is always wet and cold, he wears a rain coat like us all. He does the show and what they say to promote the forest and its virgin nature and wants to keep it and raise awareness so he goes along with thier demands, mostly.

 

[clemsonfor]

The last frontier is a neat show. I found it on its first season with like only 3 shows. I dont think many people watched it but it did well enough to warrent a second season, then it took off. it was like a year till that second season took off. no one watched the first few pilot shows cause there was almost nothing on the internet and discovery had very little on them. I do like that the family dosent commercialize itself.

Most dont know that is the family of the singer Jewel. Atz Kiltcher is her dad and she sings in the intro. Atz Lee is her brother as is shane and Nicose. they dont ever mention that but i suspected a conection when i herd her sing and knew she was from alaska and some googleing of that very first short season i learned that. They still dont mention it which i admire they want to gain fans not get them from star struck people that want to see "jewels" roots.

They dont mention things that i would like to know like how do they all get money, homesteading and trading is great as is growing your food but that doset buy buldozers an fuel. I do know that on Facebook the Eivan says he does dirt work and grading for money and i suspet the others do similar. Atz is an artist and sells his music and hand made baskets and maybe potery. Also there not as remote as you think. There on a dirt road about a mile off east end road that runs into homer. Which is 10 miles away, supposedly not that hard to get to. There lots of houses near them on the route to thier house, and in some shots you can even see houses if you look carefully, but they seldom give you those angles.

 

[clemsonfor]

I watched about ten minutes of that show when it came on last year and couldn't take it. I'm embarrassed to admit I watched it that long!!!!

It's getting harder and harder to find something worth watching. Oak Island was pretty good, but now it seems to be dragging on with nothing happening.

The tree house guy does some nice work and I like how creative he is, I just wish he would stop the bad acting.

Eddie

Those were the reruns then show was aired a year ago and just recently after the first of the year came back on.

Oak island was good and is about a true story but i agree its dragging the new season even more so than the first.

 

[clemsonfor]

I had wondered the same thing about Alaska: The Last Frontier... until i found out that the singer "Jewel" was the daughter of the range rider Otz. I'm sure her career has bolstered their collection of heavy equipment rather nicely.

-J

seem my earlier post about the equiptment of Eivan, i am sure his dad otto is in it too.

 

[kc5dlo]

There was a show about little family owned flying service in Alaska that I enjoyed watching. I like watching Wheeler Dealers for the tips but wonder why anyone would invest so much money and so much work just to sell for a few hundred in profit?

 

[clemsonfor]

Anybody catch the "new" "Alaska Monsters" show? Alaska Monsters : Destination America

Now there is a REAL laugher!! Can anyone other than a 3rd grader think that one iota of this BS has any crumb of "reality"??

:confused2:

- Jay

No but i love moutain monsters. Its laughable but i still watch.

I found the show buying alaska on the destination america channel about 2-3 years ago on its first season. It did well so latter that year they reran it on thier flagship channel Discovery, yep destination is owned by discovery.

A destination show i love is Hilbilly blood. i dont know why cause much of it is made up scenarios but i kind of like the backwoods mcguyver stuff. I also loved the show Rocet city rednecks, it was canceled.

I too watch every logging show there was. American loggers with the Peliters was real mostly. SwamP loggers was REAL, i hate that show went off. But i think that they did not like that Bobby did not put up with there demands. He was and is a big logger in the costal plain of NC. I read an article about him in the southern loggin times. He said he signed on for three seasons and that it was a big pain with all thier boom lifts and all the idiot film crew running around on his job site. and that every time something goes wrong they want an interview when your not in a good mood. Also said it took forever to do anything. Like if they went to the parts store. They jumped in the truck, he gets there lets the crew off and they go inside to get waivers filled out for them to be on tv, and then he drives off so that they can refilm him pulling up. then he goes inside buy stiff pulls off has to turn around and go back to get the idiots!! As a forester i know many loggers and one of the crews that does work for me went to a logging show and met him he said i signed on for 3 seasons and the money was not that good if you see me back for a 4th you know im "getting PAID" this time !!

Told you i know my TV!!!

 

[clemsonfor]

Ice road truckers almost got cancelled a few seasons ago but came back under the new format of that one company vs Hue and the made russian. I liked it at first but still watch it just cause. I did watch deadliest roads but it was canned a few years ago cause it was the same thing over and over.

As for gold shows anybody watch Jungle gold? They make the houghmans look like geniuses. These guys go to the Guyana(or whatever the african country is similar to that spelling) and mine there, they get robbed and find no gold in 2 seasons. They guys supposedly lost big in the financial crunch and were RE agents or something. And are behind on morgauges in million dollar homes and somehow come up with money to mine in africa to make it rich. They fail and loose money and somehow make it back a second season and still get backers and have money of thier own and even get money from a fater in law who is rich. The show was good but they were terrible. Another show was Bamazon where they went to the same country as the houghmans did in south america. It aired the season before the Houghmans went down to the jungle, it was a crew of out of work guys from alabama and a business man to make it rich on gold. Like the houghmans they did not make anything. You look at the camp they had to build to stay there and your head spins and the money in equiptment!!!

 

[clemsonfor]

Pretty sure it was Axe Men, and the one guy (Shelby?) was down near New Orleans area.

yep yall are talking about shelby in Ax men he has been on since the second season i think.

 

[clemsonfor]

any body watch Ice lake rebels?

 

[clemsonfor]

Very interesting how the TBNers here have ferreted out all the same "reality" shows I have. And have reached most of the same conclusions. Had some medical down time this month, and spent a lot of it watching TV (and sleeping). I have to agree that the quality of most of these shows hasn't improved as the episode count mounts. Couldn't even get through one episode of Bush People; too much like watching my immediate neighbors and I've had a belly full of that. Gold Rush and Bearing Sea Gold are riddled with painful fabricated drama, the only reason I keep watching is the heavy equipment and repair sequences, but that footage seems to end up on the cutting room floor these days. Tried a few episodes of Ax Men: too much conflict and drama, so it got the axe (sorry, couldn't resist). Started Life Below Zero last week and I'm already losing interest. Nobody's mentioned any of the hunting shows. I can't stand any of 'em. All of the focus is on killing something, which to me is the antithesis of why I hunt. The fun stops when the hammer drops, and I'd just as soon go home empty handed than obsess over finding just the right animal or taking a shot I knew wouldn't result in a quick death for the animal. See any of the hunting scenes on Life Below Zero for great examples of how not to do it. Watched my first episode of The Pioneers yesterday; couldn't believe how much of that rabbit was missing and wonder if it wasn't killed with a 3030. Now I'm seeing ads for an Alaskan 4WD show with scenes of huge trucks and rooster tails. No wonder we're losing off road access everywhere. Some of the shooting shows are actually good though, like Impossible Shots and History of the Gun. None of my viewing would be possible without a DVR, and lately I'm worried about wearing out the fast forward and skip buttons. I'll be sooooooo glad when I'm back on my feet and can get on with my own quiet little reality rural living show! :cool2:

I have off road warriors taped and watched a few off the DVR but it is not capturing my attention for some reason, may force my way through it all though.

i am a few months behind on pickers and pawn stars i hate it, those were my stapels but there is so many of them!!!!

I taped the pioneers but cant get the first episode to retape so we have not watched it yet. It reminds me of a show on public TV about 10 years abo called frontier house that they recently reran a few years ago on the DIY network. It was good and the same principle.

We like ultimite survival alaska. the show is like in its 5-6 season now but has gone through various format changes. The first season it was called really the alaska experiment and that was like 6 years ago it was like 3 groups that had various types of shelter and hadd to live all summer long and get enough food put up for winter. One couple was on an alaskan wall tent, one a trapper cabin and one a small log cabin. They were then graded to see if they had enough food and wood to last all winter. the next season i think they changed the name of maybe kept it but it was a large group of people that had to go from point A to F and along the way make camp ar various things and stay there a day or two before going to the next place. At any time they could hit a gps beacon and bow out of the contest. it was just to see if they could make it, then like 3 seasons ago they started the current ultimite survival alaska with marty and the seveys. It was small at first now its got a bigger following and some of the same stay on the show and other new, its a race type show across alaska, similar to the great race kind of. They may have been 3 different shows but they all came on like they were in concurrent seasons on the same netowrk with similar names?