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
Please bring back Alaskan Bush People. It is an enjoyable show. History and family
Please bring back bush people Not many programs we like. THIS REMINDS US OF WALTONS
Please bring the Alaskan Bush People back soon and lots of episodes. Our whole family watches it. We live on a rancch ourselves and the show is just inspiring!
please bring the show back! I feel like part of my family is gone. Also I have to know if the children find spouses. If its fake I don’t care just keep faking it
I’m beside myself. As a senior citizen, the Bush family gave me hope that there are still families that love and respect each other. I am so disappointed you have chosen not to renew their contract. There are so many meaningless shows on TV. Please reconsider!!
My husband and I really enjoy watching Alaskan Bush People. We hope there’s a Season 3 in the making.
Please bring the Alaskan Bush People back. This show is great.
Please bring back Alaskan Bush People. I miss that show. There are so many shows on television that are worse and yet those shows are still showing. Please bring it back
I LOVE that show and have been miserable for not being able to find it anymore. The other reason I’ve been miserable about this show is what I’ve been hearing and reading about such as the Browns don’t really live in the bush, the studio actually created a tv setting where some of the action takes place; also that they really live in a nearby town right off a ROAD and eat at a local diner and that the house we see them building is only for the show and that it’s all a scam.
You need to understand that the Browns are very lovable and many of us watching them on tv really admire them and what appears to be, their real way of life. It’s so DAMN INTERESTING if it was real. If there is any explanation of why and how this show was filmed, why a freaking SET WAS BUILT(!) and why after teasing us with access to insights into a really unusual and interesting way of life you
then cut us off from it, that sucks. NOW we’re hearing it’s all a fake! Please explain and if the explanation is good, something the fans can accept, then PLEASE BRING THIS SHOW BACK!
Bring them back this was a show that everyone in our Family could watch, we loved everything they did we cry ‘d ,when they were hurt we laughed, when the boy’s played around, loved watching Mom homeschool her Beautiful Daughter BRING THEM BACK NOW
Love them and hope they return to TV!
Please bring the bush people soon. Miss them a lot. Makes me smile.
When can I see these lovely people. They make this senior smile
This show should never be canceled , every time they put a good program on they only run it for a short time. I wish the Brown family the best of everything . Would it not be great if we all had the love they have ?
Hurry up w the new episodes please!
Please bring back the Brown Family from Alaskan Bush People. My family has come to love the Brown family and living the lifestyle there show portrays.
Please let us know what’s going on. Is the show coming back and when? Love watching this. I’m very sick recuperating from brain surgery and I need hope. This show gives me that!!
I hope the brown family is not over I really enjoyed the show I even liked to watch the reruns so I hope it isn’t over I’m not sure how to use the internet real good to find out more so if someone reads this post please tell me more of what’s going on with them
We enjoy this program so much. I, personally, could never live this life, but I like seeing how their survival instincts kick in. Hi
please please please bring back the alaskan bushpeople…it was a great show….pl;ease
I don’t know how real it is. Seems like there’s a lot of engineered problems for the benefit of the show. I don’t want to live like that, but I do want to know I have the OPTION to live like that. Its very comforting.
please bring back the Alaskan bush people I am hooked on that show