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Sarah Palin show not ‘The Osbournes go North’

john — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:44:21 +0000

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is shopping a short television series to network executives, according to a senior aide, but it will not be a reality show “focused on the Palin family.”
A Palin source told POLITICO that during a trip to Los Angeles for a taping of “The Tonight Show,” the former GOP vice presidential nominee met with executives from ABC, CBS, NBC, and FOX as well as representatives for A&E and the History Channel.

Palin went to the meeting with Mark Burnett, a reality show producer of CBS’s “Survivor.”

Palin will take part in the series, which the source said will be short and not recurring, but her involvement – whether as a producer, host or anything in between – has yet to be determined.

“She’ll take part in some way, but it really still is in development right now,” the aide said.

The focus of series would be Alaska and will be similar to a nature series on the Discovery Channel.

“It will not be focused on the Palin family, Alaska is going to be the star,” the source said. “It will be more ‘Planet Earth’ than the Osbournes go North.”

The source would not disclose the financial stake Palin is hoping to have in the deal.

Late-Night GOP Ratings War

john — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:57:04 +0000

For his return to “The Tonight Show,” Jay Leno booked a week’s worth of ratings-friendly guests, including Sarah Palin — who appears Tuesday night. David Letterman responded by booking his own political guest for the same night: Mitt Romney.

And so the late-night battle for ratings hinges on two GOP stars with one thing in common: Palin and Romney have some of the best hair in politics.

But whereas Romney’s standard, well-groomed cut doesn’t seem to change, Palin has been letting her hair down — literally. Her high, twisted up-do is no longer the given it was in the 2008 campaign. For an appearance on “Fox News Sunday” and at a NASCAR speech, she sported a more natural coiffure.

“The new look is both softer and more professional, which is probably an attempt to appeal to a broader swath of America,” says Nuri Yurt of Toka Salon in Washington. Yurt has styled the hair of many Washington VIPs, including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former first lady Laura Bush.

During the campaign, inquiring minds wondered whether Palin used Bumpits, the as-seen-on-TV styling tool that gives hair more volume at the crown. If she did, she’s changing it up now.