Bristol Palin trips up with viewers for reality show
Bristol Palin: TV critics unenthusiastic. — Reuters file picLOS ANGELES, June 22 — Bristol Palin tripped up with TV audiences after fewer than 750,000 people watched the first episode of her new reality show.
Palin, who found fame in 2008 as the accidentally pregnant unmarried daughter of Republican conservative US vice-presidential contender Sarah Palin, chronicled her life with her now three-year-old son Tripp in the Lifetime show “Life’s a Tripp.”
But according to audience figures yesterday, just 726,000 watched the show when it debuted on Wednesday. By contrast, some 3.3 million watched the latest instalment of MTV’s “Teen Mom” reality series on Wednesday.
“Life’s a Tripp” got unenthusiastic reviews from TV critics and proved no match with the US public for the polarising but charismatic Sarah Palin. The 2010 TV series “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” attracted some five million viewers on its first outing, but was cancelled after one season. — Reuters
