Do the Alaskan Bush People get paid? We asked! Read our interview with the Brown family.
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Alaskan Bush People Season 1 Recaps: Episode 1 | Episode 2 | Episode 3 | Episode 4 | The Wild Life
Season 2 Recaps: Episode 1 | Episode 2 | Episode 3 | Episode 4 | Episode 5 | Episode 6 | Episode 7 | Episode 8 | Wild Times | Episode 9 | Episode 10 | Episode 11 | Episode 12 | Episode 13 | Episode 14 | SHARK WEEK! | Episode 15 | Episode 16 | Lost Footage | The Wild Year
NEW! Is Alaskan Bush People Fake? Does It Matter?
Viewers of Discovery Channel’s Alaskan Bush People have been wondering if the four episodes of the Brown family’s adventures in the wilderness are all they’re going to get. The new show Siberian Cut takes over the Tuesday night time slot and no new episodes of Alaskan Bush People are currently scheduled.
[Update: A new episode of Alaskan Bush People, titled “The Wild Life,” premieres Sunday, June 15, at 10pm ET/PT on Discovery Channel. Based on the show’s description, it sounds like it might be a highlights/recap/additional unaired footage type of show: “After facing unparalleled obstacles, the Browns reflect on their past year of living in the Alaskan Bush while providing surprise revelations about the family’s lifestyle.”
Last seen, the Brown family suffered another setback as the boat they were using to scout a new home in southeast Alaska hit an object, took on water and sank at the dock. The family made it off the boat safely, but were left with an uncertain future.
They can’t possibly let the show end like that, can they?
Well, the news here is that there is no news. According to a Discovery Channel spokesman, the network has not announced whether or not Alaskan Bush People will be returning.
As for the Brown family, all nine of them were in Los Angeles in January for the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour and were on a panel to promote the show, which at the time was scheduled to air on Animal Planet. (So no, they didn’t starve or freeze or anything after their boat went down in Episode 4.) You can learn more about them and see some pretty interesting photos of the family at their official website. Also, do read this article by Zaz Hollander of Alaska Dispatch, who did some investigating into some of the behind-the-scenes aspects of the show that have been debated in these recaps.
At the panel, Billy Brown summed up the origin of his family’s Alaskan adventure as well as how the TV show came into existence:
“I was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and my family died when I was 16, and I kind of hit the road. When Ami and I got together, we traveled all over the place, and we found that as we were going places, we never were really content where we were. We kept getting we’d go to the country, and it wasn’t really enough country. We kept getting deeper and deeper in, and then, when Alaska opened up to us, it was like a it was like a ready made home to us. And when we got up I have written children’s books for my kids and stuff and a book about my life, One Wave at a Time, and our guys went in when you go to the harbor shacks and stuff, we get Internet every once in a while, and our guys went in, Bam especially, and he put a website for the kids’ books. And through that, a guy got in touch with us, and we ended up here. And I am the one that didn’t want to come. …
This is, you know, not what we had planned. We spent 30 years of our lives trying to stay as far away from this kind of stuff as we could, and people. And we discussed it a lot, and I guess … it was Ami that really talked me into it more that we thought it would be cool if people could really see how we live because I don’t think you guys know people who really still live that way, because it’s not a movie. It’s us.”
Photo: Credit: Discovery Channel
Really enjoyed and looked forward to Alaskan Bush People. We felt comfortable watching with our kids and there is not much viewing available like that. Many teachable moments where there is a family growing up with out video games. My kids are fascinated.
Bring back the Brown family. Love this show.
Please bring them back! So innocent and so interesting. We are all worried about them too. Hoping they have had better luck. Want to see Matt find a wife!!!
Please come back. I have grown to love to watch each one of you. A true family Good morals God Bless and More.
Please bring the Brown family back! Sure beats watching the Real House Wives of ? They are real and awesome to watch and learn from…just awesome show
Fabulously entertaining show, I don’t care if it is real or not – they are oh so enjoyable! Please please bring them back!
Please bring back the “Alaskan Bush People” !! Love this show
I would love to meet the Browns. I think they are wonderful people and I pray for their success.
Alaskan Bush People is a great & very interesting show. It just has to come back !!!
Please bring back the show I was hooked since the first episode!
Love this show please bring it back! I love all the children’s personalities and how clotse of a family they are.
Love this show. Bring it back please!
Bring the show back. This show is definitely more interesting than whats on tv. Most people in this country could not survive one day in the wild . Good learning program for learning survival
Loved the show bring them back
Bring back the Alaskan Bush People show. I really enjoyed that show.
Bring Alaskan bush people back we love it
Please bring this show back these people are so sincere and you do not find that in many people nowadays. I really enjoyed watching this show and was looking forward to many more episodes. It will be a real loss if it were cancelled so again please bring it back thank you
Please bring the show back. It’s one of the few shows on TV worth watching. I need to know the outcome to their heartbreak of the last show.
Bring this show back, what a joy to see how people really live in the wilderness, all the hardships, and joys of life, how they survive. These people were real, honest, caring and loving folks. We got to know them and felt their pain when they were driven away from the home they worked so hard to build and then to lose the boat they had paid for with what little money they had. It was a show the hole family could watch together, it was real, life’s ups and downs.
Please bring it back.
Please bring this show back! It was the ONLY show worth watching!!!!