Bristol Palin TV show draws $354,348 state subsidy

[DonViejo]

by Dermot Cole
Dec 11, 2012

The California company that made Bristol Palin's TV show about raising her child has collected a $354,348 subsidy from the state. Unlike nearly all of the other shows and films subsidized so far under the movie incentive program, the salaries paid to Alaska residents on the Palin show account for a majority of the total "Alaska expenses" for the TV show.

Palin and the five other Alaska residents who participated as "talent" on the show collected close to a half-million in wages. Total "Alaska expenses," a term that is misleading because it includes money paid to people from Outside, were reported as $995,275.

"Bristol Palin: Life's a Tripp" ran for 14 episodes last summer on the Lifetime Channel and did not gather big ratings for the cable network. The Alaska subsidy is paid in the form of a transferable tax credit, but since the limited liability companies that make films don't pay a state tax, so they sell the tax credits to other companies.

The document from the Alaska Film Office says the Helping Hands LLC paid $475,598 to "above the line" people from Alaska. "Above the line" is the term used to denote the stars, director, producer and other key figures in a production.


Read more: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner - entry Bristol Palin TV show draws 354 348 state subsidy

[Berlum]

1. Republican Socialism for the Rich

As usual. Freaking hip-O-critters to the cOrE.

[asjr]

2. From an old Carol Burnette sketch--"As the Stomach Turns."

[jberryhill]

3. Single mother welfare queen

[Scuba]

4. Grifter, jr.

[Javaman]

5. It's the grift that keeps on grifting. nt

[bongbong]

6. Talentless sack of shit

Unless you count being a Mega-Uber-Ultra-Hyper-Hypocrite a "talent".