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March 25, 2010, 9:51 am

TLC Acquires ‘Sarah Palin’s Alaska’

At our Media Decoder blog, The Times’s Brian Stelter writes that Discovery Communications’ TLC cable channel has acquired the documentary series that will feature former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.

The eight-episode travelogue will “reveal Alaska’s powerful beauty as it has never been filmed, and as told by one of the state’s proudest daughters,” Peter Liguori, Discovery’s chief operating officer, said in a statement.

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