'Bristol Palin: Life's A Tripp' Ratings: Lifetime Reality Series Bombs

[onehandle]

Good. Your 15 minutes are over, grifters.
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About one million people changed the channel when "Bristol Palin: Life's A Tripp" premiered on Lifetime on Tues., June 19. According to EW, Palin's reality series had an audience of 726,000 total viewers and a 0.2 rating in the 18-49 demographic. Its lead-in, "Dance Moms," had a viewership of 1.8 million viewers, according to TVByTheNumbers.

"Life's A Trip" follows Palin as she moves from Los Angeles back to Alaska and readjusts to life as a single mom with the support of her family, including parents Sarah and Todd.

It seems not even legal drama could help attract viewers to "Life's A Tripp." Lifetime and Palin were slapped with a lawsuit by a heckler with whom Palin confronted on camera in the premiere episode. Stephen Banks accused Palin of defamation and that he didn't allow Lifetime to film him.

Kyle Massey, Palin's fellow "Dancing With the Stars" contestant, also filed a lawsuit over the new reality show. Massey and his brother, Christopher, were to appear in a Bio reality series about Palin's life in Los Angeles. The show was scrapped and "Life's A Tripp" was developed. In the suit, the Massey brothers and mom Angel allege they developed the show and helped the production company Associated Television International and its head David McKenzie produce the originally planned series. The Massey lawsuit claims copyright infringement, breach of contract and unfair competition.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/20/bristol-palin-lifes-a-tripp-ratings-lifetime_n_1613679.html

[lpbk2713]

1. I could have saved them a lot of trouble.

I knew it was going to be a turkey the first time I heard of it.


I never even considered tuning in.
I didn't want to stink up the living room.

[tridim]

2. The entire Palin family is batting .000

When will they get a clue?

[PoliticAverse]

4. They seem to be batting .$$$ . n/t

[tridim]

11. Right, and after they collect the $$$, everything turns to shit

It happens over and over and over again.

I guess it's the people giving them money that need the clue.

[Larkspur]

3. The celibrity "sun" is setting on the Palins.

I'm waiting for Bristol to go on welfare or take a job at Walmart as a greeter.

[kestrel91316]

5. I'll know there really IS a God when these asshats all die in impoverished anonymity.

[malaise]

8. I disagree -as the money dries up

I expect some to run into problems with the law -shoplifting or drugs

[lpbk2713]

10. Wasn't Wasilla the Meth Mecca of Alaska?

I expect the Wasilla Hillbillies to branch out in to the manufacture and
distribution of that when all their grifting opportunities dry up.

[malaise]

12. Yes and baby daddy's mother had some problems

in the past

[RockaFowler]

6. I hope Kyle wins his lawsuit

He should have known she was scum when she was on DWTS with him.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

7. They should do a reality show about her lawsuits.

[hifiguy]

9. I would like to serenade the whole grifting family

but I will let Steam do it instead:

[KatChatter]

13. Bristol will have a bright future in Porn some day

it is about all she is qualified for.

[onehandle]

14. That should the obvious path (see skill-free Octomom), but the grifter-in-chief has made millions...

...from hordes of suckers.

[Woody Woodpecker]

21. I confess to downloading Octomom's porn yesterday - nothing spectacular about her.

Looks like your average Angelina Jolie wannabe.

What, you think I paid for it? No. I downloaded it via torrent like everyone else.

[cstanleytech]

36. TMI. nt

[Frank Cannon]

38. I would rather view Steven Seagal's colonoscopy...

than watch a porn video featuring the Octomom. Seriously, WTF?

You must have the entire Faces of Death series in your DVD collection.

[Downtown Hound]

15. I know how to make a reality show with the Palins make millions

You know those roast-a-thons that celebrities do sometimes in which one person sits there and lets other celebrities make fun of them? Do that with the Palins. I'd pay pay-per-view prices to see that!

[jmowreader]

32. That wouldn't work but I know what would...

Replace Daffy with all the Palins, and you might have something.

[obamanut2012]

16. Lifetime will be cancelling Bristol ASAP

MAYBE one more week.

Those ratings are horrifically bad.

[Stuart G]

17. That gives me one week to see it...

But I got no cable..ain't going to get it..

[Liberal_in_LA]

23. youtube for clips of all shows

[Liberal_in_LA]

18. the commercials were awful.

[obamanut2012]

20. You know Lifetime was already losing money on ads, too

After the ratings, they are taking a bath.

I have to chuckle.

[tanyev]

19. "The show was scrapped and 'Life's a Tripp' was developed"

Oh, "developed". Is that what you call it when you film a bunch of footage for a reality show with two of your friends and when nobody is interested in the show you cut out their footage, even though it was their idea, and use all the remaining footage for your own show?

Those Palins sure are good at "developing" things.

[Mz Pip]

22. The fact that over 700,000 people

actually watched the show is mind boggling as it is. I guess those are the same fools who sent money for SarahPAC.

[obamanut2012]

24. How many stopped watching before the hour was up?

That would be even more telling.

I know my sister watched it to see the trainwreck, but turned the channel after 15 minutes.

[Strelnikov_]

25. That was my reaction as well n/t

[PoliticAverse]

26. Some people misplace the remote and are too lazy to get up... n/t

[Iggo]

37. That's almost eight times as many viewers as Erin Burnett!

[SoCalDem]

27. The only thing worse than a Kardashian is a low-rent wannabee Kardashian

[Scout]

28. i watch "Dance Moms" (yes i'm embarrassed)

and that lead in to Bristol's show ... i switched it before her's started.

i'll watch Dance Moms and Project Runway, but that's as low as my trash tv tolerance will go!

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

29. I saw "Dance Moms" once

After a couple of minutes, my wife called Abby "the Dance Nazi". She that if we had a daughter interested in dancing, we would not let Abby anywhere near her.

[Liberal_in_LA]

33. Project Runway ain't Trash! I love the reality shows that involve real craft

The contestants have talent.

[LiberalAndProud]

30. The only puzzlement here is why anybody ever thought Bristol would be interesting "reality" fodder.

That part I just don't get. The lucky gene thing has run it's course. I think we are quite done with the offspring of accidentally famous folks.

[treestar]

31. Good

Anything that discourages the attention seeking Palin family is a good thing

[spanone]

34. the media loves the palins, NO ONE ELSE. why give a show to ms bristol?

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

35. I think if they showed the REAL Palins they might attract an audience

We need to see Sarah and her Witch Doctor really get into some serious fire and brimstone spell casting and victim sacrificing. Then we need to see Todd Palin actually organize a revolution with his secessionist friends and try a coup d'etat in Alaska. You know, show the Palins doing what they dream of doing.