{"id":447146,"date":"2010-03-19T10:09:50","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T14:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=79718"},"modified":"2010-03-19T10:09:50","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T14:09:50","slug":"sarah-palin-the-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/447146","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Palin: The Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Variety <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.variety.com\/on_the_air\/2010\/03\/is-sarah-palin-close-to-a-tv-deal.html\">reports<\/a> that a Sarah Palin-hosted TV series about Alaska is on track to appear on a cable channel, possibly Discovery or the Travel Channel. The entertainment industry newspaper&#8217;s take:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This Alaska show, of course, could only be a prelude to a bigger TV career for Palin &#8212; particularly if she decides not to run for president in 2012. Some industry execs believe that Burnett has his eye on turning Palin into a daytime star &#8212; much as he revived Martha Stewart&#8217;s TV career with &#8220;The Martha Stewart Show.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And talk about timing: With Oprah Winfrey exiting syndication in 2011, Burnett could always fashion a Palin yakker as a contender to fill that void.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span id=\"more-79718\"><\/span>You could speculate that the series means Palin is leaving politics, or you could recall that Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/John-McCain\/e\/B001IGNQI8\/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1\">wrote three books<\/a> about &#8220;character&#8221; and &#8220;courage&#8221; between 2004 and 2008 &#8212; not really political texts, more work that built up his brand as a maverick. Anything that humanizes Palin and softens her image is potentially helpful to a presidential bid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Variety reports that a Sarah Palin-hosted TV series about Alaska is on track to appear on a cable channel, possibly Discovery or the Travel Channel. The entertainment industry newspaper&#8217;s take: This Alaska show, of course, could only be a prelude to a bigger TV career for Palin &#8212; particularly if she decides not to run [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}