Just curious, how many of you watch the Alaskan / Northern type TV
reality shows, and there are many.

What do you like about particular ones, and dislike, and I do watch a few of them, and others not at all, for various reasons.

I admire the toughness of their lifestyle, but being a shooter and hunter all my life I can't help but
note fundamental errors in shooting and hunting skills. That's just my take.

Example: "Alaska the Last Frontier", the wife of one of the sons is trying to sight in a scoped high power rifle. she is clearly right handed and left eye dominant and trying to sight with her left eye.

Prone type of position right shoulder, gun loose, face over the stock to use left eye....this is gonna hurt I tell my other half before it happens, as were watching. Her husband is standing over this trainwreck and watching it unfold. She touches it off and the scope hammers her above the eye
hard enough to roll her over, lucky it didn't knock her out. Just an observation.

What's yours?

None of the "survival" type shows. I like the "home" shows tailored along the lines of "House Hunters", etc.

Just the one with the gun shop. Mainly to see Phred. She's the primary asset of that show, and her occasional girl friends. But Ken and the other jerks almost put me off of even that. They totally repel me.

Some of those shows come out of Canada, the Yukon.

These wilderness shows feature a bunch of rustics I wouldn't want to know, and the gun stuff is limited and not usually very interesting.

The Bigfoot reality show is (bleep).

I watch some animal reality shows, but few are really good. I liked the recent one on the Tasmanian "tiger."

My idea of a reality show was The Girls Next Door. But after reading Holly Madison's first book, revealing the truth of things in it and at the Playboy Mansion in general, I find even that tarnished.

The reality survival shows don't amount to much. I can't identify with the scruffy rustics on them, and Bear Grylls's show is just TV rot for drama and ratings. He was/is a SAS soldier, and I do respect that. He has enormous boldness, but the TV show and the spin-off equipment isn't to my liking.

I am absolutely baffled as to why Animal Planet runs housebuilding shows and aquarium shows, etc. let alone pawn shop programming. I miss, Big Cat Diary.

I have watched a few episodes of a show about hunting in Alaska. It was pretty good at times, and not anti-hunting or anti-gun.

I lived in Alaska for five years. I was a hunter, a fisherman and a Bush Pilot. I know just how fake and staged those shows are. I haven't watched another one of their shows after the first of each. .....

I only watch "Alaska State Troopers". Not really interested in the others.

That is one hell of an environment in which to be a police officer.

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Oh well, what the hell.

They are entertaining, and obviously people are watching, while these people are cashing in some big dough!!
I don't think that there is anything wrong with that, but we all know that these shows lean more towards unreality than reality!! Just my 2 cents worth!!

"Just the one with the gun shop. Mainly to see Phred. She's the primary asset of that show, and her occasional girl friends. But Ken and the other jerks almost put me off of even that. They totally repel me. "

Just had one dealing with them==they are as bad in person! Didn't see her, either!

I don't watch reality shows at all. Wife had one of the Alaska shows on...for about 10 minutes..just more tripe for the wanna be's. I also saw about 3 minutes of people runnin around nekkid on some island..whatabuncha crapo. What the heck is that all about??? I lived in Alaska for a while and met some of the real ol sourdoughs..Some really hard tough people.... Sold an airplane to one old fella. He told me he was born in 1902 and was 67 at the time. Don't know if he had a pilots license...but he could sure fly

LOL! You brought bought back a funny memory of pilots in Alaska. I started flying in Alaska in 1968. At that time the "Student Permit" was nothing more than a copy of your flight physical and a radio operator's permit. As a student pilot you flew on that until properly licensed as a "Private Pilot". .......... Well, the Salmon industry was scattered all over the West Coast of Alaska and they had to get all that fresh salmon to the Anchorage airport every day to provide high grade fresh salmon to the top restaurants in the lower 48. So, they contracted with pilots with their own airplane to fly as much iced down salmon as their airplane could carry from the West Coast to Anchorage. These 'fish flyers' were paid upon delivery to Anchorage. It slowly became obvious to everyone operating out of the Anchorage airports that many so called student pilots were buying an airplane and then after getting soloed in that airplane discontinued any further pilot training and just went to work flying fish. Some became very good self taught pilots and some crashed. No one was too worried about either situation. It came to pass that the official FAA "Student Flight Physical' became known as "The Alaska Commercial Pilot's License". I knew one resident of Anchorage that became so good at "flying fish" and surviving the Alaska weather that he moved up in ever larger airplanes until he purchased a used Cessna 310 twin engine. He stripped out all unnecessary equipment and seats from the plane and would haul about 1,000 lbs. of fish every trip. He never had an actual pilot's rating and when I knew him he had accumulated over 3,500 hrs. of flight time.

I bet that little segment of Alaska commerce has never been featured on any of the so-called reality shows. ....

Tried of NCIS. Law & Order so not much left.

The only "reality" shows I watch are football, baseball and hockey and that's only occasionally. There's not a reality show on that's not scripted.

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Well it was amazing. I flew from the lower 48 across Canada into Alaska in 1968 and didn't have a pilots license. Even when I crossed the border they never asked for my license. I did have almost a 1000 hours by then. When I took flight instruction and took the PP test I did it in absolute minimum time. Check pilot told me he had never had anyone pass with the minimums before. By that time I had almost 3000 hours. First plane was a Cessna 170 next was the oldest flying ercoupe and I also had a Cessna 310. Bought in a closed bid auction for a bit over 2200 bucks. It had been sitting on an airport for over 3 years..Probably a drug courier plane..you know..pat the seats hard and take a deep breath and get high. We got it moved after getting it running and obtained a ferry permit. It was expensive to fly though. Made mucho bucks on that one

The only one I really watched was gold rush but since the old man died, I might not watch it as often.

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I also watch the Gold show which is now mostly in BC.
Sometime watch the others, also like the Gun Store show.

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There was one i watched the host was named Geo. It was a good show predating all of this reality stuff.

I also like Alone on history channel.

I like Alaska the Great frontier. It may or may not be fake , but I like the people, they seem relatively real.

I'm watching Life below Zero right now.
I enjoy their self sufficiency and lack of Government (oversight)
out in the bush. Don't like the -60 below in the winter up at
the Brooks Range where this guy is at.
Don't matter how hot or cold it gets they still get out and take
care of business most days because they have to.


Chuck

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You mean to tell me they are all staged? I'm moving!!!

They are all mean't to be entertainment not factual documentaries, there's no money in a documentary for some reason. We need to bring back Jim from Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, he got his butt kicked by some tough critters. That was entertainment!

I like the one with the young babe who now has kids. She was good looking and worth watching just as eye candy. Back to shooting non-skills. Its as bad as the cop shows where no one aims. And they hike uphill and never seem to break a sweat or get winded. I wish I could do that.

Remember the old carpenters advice, to measure twice and cut once? Modify that to take twice as long to aim.

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What became of the family in Denver who had the gun shop? The one with the hot daughter with the long neck, Paige?

I read somewhere that they got in trouble with IRS for taxes and maybe with ATF, too. ??

I never saw much done to guns there that I'd want done. Mostly expensive customising to make money for the shop.
The "gunsmiths" didn't give me a feeling of high competence.

I'm not sure I want to know much about the gun shop in LA that had all of that Class III ordnance. Red Jacket? It supposedly ran into problems with ATF and the owner was reported to have had an incest issue with his daughter. I don't know if he was actually charged. Details may not be suitable for this board.

I miss shows like Steve Irwin's and Wild Kingdom. But I don't like them hassling/handling the animals. And Irwin took some awful chances. I have the video of his African trip, where the snakes reacted much more realistically than did those he had back in Australia. I always wondered if those were chilled or drugged.

The last Alaskans show is much more close to reality. Heimo Korth is the real deal.

You mean Evie. What a babe is right.

I admit to watching most of the Alaska shows. What really grinds my grapes is when they are hunting they have to load gun when they see the animal they are hunting.

Nope. Never had an interest in them and they were made for my generation all the way back in the MTV real world show.

I have seen a few episodes of Alaska state troopers and life below zero but only because I happened to have come across it while channel surfing.

What I would LOVE to see is something like Survivor Calcutta or Survivor Sunni triangle. Then were talking. A new one could be Survivor Aleppo! Maybe Bachelor/Bachelorette leper colony.



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Which show was this, and who is this Evie? I've only seen Phred and the one out of Colorado. The mother was liked by some male viewers, but the young daughter Paige (now well over 18) aroused the most interest. I liked her outfits. She did more for denim shorts than Daisy Duke. There are pics of her on the Net, but nothing recent. Look for Paige Wyatt, if interested.

But I wasn't impressed with the gun alterations, etc. on the show. Her brother wanted to go to Italy and learn to engrave, I think.

My son was in love with Paige...Either do i !
Steve Irwin'show was good, even if he was a little bit too much with the reptiles...I recently saw his son on a tv show about venomous snakes, and he was a copycat of his late father...mimicking him all the way !!!. The most bad show about venomous snakes (and all other venomous animals) was Donald Schultz' Venom hunter...This guy is too much pretentious, and handle animals very badly!

No, I tend to lump them all together...Wives of the Survivors of the Deadliest Ice Roads to the Tiny Houses?
I have not and will not give any of them a watch.

I did enjoy watching Cops with my sons when they were young.
I'd point put to them to see what stupid does to people.

There was one show that I really liked, it was about bush pilots, I think it was on only one season, there was another show about a guy who owned a airport who had a daughter who was an airhead.

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I grew tired of the Kilcher family on "Alaska the Last Frontier" several season ago, though my wife still loves the show and forces me to watch. They are supposedly way out from civilization, but that is not the case. Most of the family homes are less than ten miles from town. The hunting scenes in this show are awful.

Life below zero, with a bunch of people living at or above the arctic circle is a little more real, but the show is edited in a choppy and very annoying fashion.

The absolute worst garbage of the Alaska shows is Alaskan Bush people. All I can say is I hope that family stays together and none of their children reproduce. Ugh.

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I do have to admit to loving this show; partly due to no outside narrator, and the filming is beautiful. I enjoy watching the families as well.

I have been know to watch the Alaskan Railroad show if nothing else on, the other shows from/about Alaska never. Man some of those people that live off the grid have a very interesting but tough existence, but a lot is embellished for TV.

We did the Princes sea and land cruse (16 days) a few years ago and I have been in some of the stops and seen a lot from the train

Its a interesting show but quite apparent that many of the problems are staged. Like when their fixing something and every few minuets one says we only got X minutes left GET GOING. Like the whole crew does not know the time of things to the second. As a person that has worked with tools all my life and fixed or installed a lot of things being told stuff and being pushed does not go over well and in fact leads to more problems.

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The film crew for Alaska the last frontier, is really good...I've never seen their Starbucks cups from Homer in any of the scenes!

Nope. I just keep hoping any Kodiak Bear in the area would snack on actors and film crew.

I admit I enjoyed Irwin's show and didnt hurt it one bit that his wife is eye candy.

i like bits and pieces from some of the shows..

Mountain Men -- I like Marty & The old cowboy dude (Tom)

Life Below Zero - I like the dude who lives by himself & the guy that guides part time

Alaska last frontier - watching hoping that Jewel will be on show one day

The Last Alaskans - Like all of them, especially Heimo .

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The only one I watch is Life Below Zero, mostly for Agnes Hailstone. She always makes me smile - she's had a tough life but is always upbeat and optimistic. She reminds me of a lot of Indian folks I came to know working on various Indian reservations in the west.

I used to fast forward through the Sue Aikens segments but she has become less annoying somehow.

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You know she's American, or was? From Oregon, I think.

But daughter Bindi is grown now and was on, Dancing With the Stars. She's short, but not bad, overall.

None of these women mentioned is very impressive, compared to say, Doutzen Kroes, my favorite best looking woman in the world. But Doutzen isn't on reality shows. You can find her in many videos and some interviews on talk shows and in VS and fan videos.

I like Candice Swanepoel a lot, too, and she has some very mature, modest comments about her fame. I think she has life in good perspective, especially for a beautiful, famous, rich girl. She was from a farm in South Africa, so has some idea of what real life on one is like. Her pal Behati Prinsloo also came from a farm background, in Namibia. Both are very smart and Behati is the most cheerful, quick-witted celeb I've seen. Both ladies became moms this year. I think they'll raise their kids better than most celebs do. If you want real eye candy, look them up. They're a good step beyond the gals on reality shows.

I wish the reality shows would go away and be replaced by real wildlife programming. National Geographic used to have some really good shows. I have the VHS tapes of some.

Didn't know those girls at all ! But after google them, i understand what you means...that said i find Alessandra Ambrosio a little bit prettier;
Nat. Geo. have some good shows, but some are always the same when it is about wild life, especially when they are about major predators (lions, croc, tiger...).
BTW...i am sure "Finn" looks like Doutzen Kroes or Candice Swanepoel..

I watched that gun store show a few times, couldn't stand that guy in the Hawailan shirt.

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Reality TV has no reality in it! It is scripted by TV types who barely know which end of the gun the bullet comes out. It is all for audience ratings. The episode ending is already scripted into the show before shooting starts. So much for reality.

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I was just watching it this evening. Eve is on the Last Frontier show. She looks as good as ever, if kind of filled out from having 2 kids. And they're cute kids.

Better than watching NFL, the unAmerican league. What's not to like, Alaska, guns, snow mobiles, chain saws. Its got it all.

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Drinking game... whenever somebody says "meat for the winter..."

Take a drink.

No, I tried, really. Just more "reality" drivel.

If real, you have to wonder about the hardships willingly faced by people living off the grid. These are a tough breed of people and that lifestyle is not for me.

The only reality show that I watch with any regularity based out of Alaska is Deadliest Catch. It might be put on with some of the interactions between the crew and over-dramatized, but they are fishing in some of the most dangerous waters of the world to be fishing in. You can't script or fake 40+ foot seas and rogue waves.

The rest of that reality tripe leaves me cold and uninterested.

Nope, don't watch any of those so called reality shows.

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I like The Last Frontier even though they are the worst shots for people living off the land. I like how they re-purpose things like the old wooden bridge that floated away and they salvaged. There fare too many re-runs and not enough new episodes. Their daughter Jewel (the singer) is coming home in the new season.

I like the Edge of Alaska even though it is really absurd and obviously fake.

This is what I was going to say.

For me, they're as interesting as pro wrestling or poker.

But, there are shows I like that others might consider ****, so I won't judge anyone for watching them!

Rusty, you really ought to lay off the caffeine.

I did. Ive never heard of any of the others mentioned cept for the daughter.