Posted on 08/22/2013 4:28:34 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
It’s a Duck Nation, and we’re all just living in it.
Last week, A&E Network’s reality show “Duck Dynasty” catapulted to become the biggest unscripted show in cable history with its fourth season premiere. With nearly 11.8 million viewers, the show about a Louisiana family that has made millions from its duck call fabrication business is on the brink of toppling “The Walking Dead.” If it does, it will become cable's biggest show.
The A&E Network, as Duck Commander patriarch Phil Robertson would say, is “Happy, happy, happy.” The show premiered in March 2012 and finished its first cycle with an average 1.3 million viewers, according to data provided by Nielsen. By its third season finale, an average 8.4 million people were tuning in to hear Phil saying things like, “Ducks are like women. They don’t like a lot of mud on their butts,” and Uncle Si explaining the many uses of the word “Hey.”
Has "Duck" reached its peak audience? There's no way to know, but the network's executives aren't betting against it.
“I’m a superstitious man so I don’t make [ratings] predictions,” said David McKillop, A&E’s general manager and executive vice president. “But do I think we’ve found the ceiling yet? I don’t know but I don’t think so. We have some fun episodes coming down the pike. So keep your seat belt fastened.”
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Love this show...they told them not to show guns or pray this season..The Duck Dynasty said “NO” and the show goes on!!!
I never have seen it, but will have to tune in this week.
Never heard of The Walking Dead but DD is cool.
That’s funny. Because according to the current regime, the folks on DD are the epitome of evil: they PRAY, like GUNS, are WHITE, kill and eat animals, etc...
Yet, it’s the biggest show... hmmmm, How could THAT be?!?!
Took me a while to catch on to this show, but I am hooked now. These folks are awesome. And they’re pretty much JUST like what we’d want to be - WHO THEY REALLY ARE.
I have never watched the show, but I wish them the best, I hope their success is lasting, and I pray that the MSM does not decide to destroy them. I read something yesterday that said one of them recently broke THE ‘cardinal rule’ of celebrity, by speaking out against abortion?
Love your tagline.
I’ve never watched DD. From what I’ve seen/heard from some of the cast lately, I think I’ll start watching it.
In general terms, I have a REAL problem with reality shows. I think 99% of everything on them are faked. History Channel shows are the absolute worst.
It’s, like, Hey!
I had never seen it, but due to the buzz and reading comments here, I have been looking at Season One.
I find it somewhat entertaining; though my impression is obvious that they are reciting their lines and performing as in a school play. Perhaps the show gets better as it goes. I'll watch a few more
Did not grab me like "Breaking Bad" which I also only watched beginning a couple of weeks ago. I was actually surprised that I like that show.
But...are you telling me that when Chumlee of "Pawn Stars" tries yet another bonehead maneuver straight out of a bad sitcom, that it's...scripted? Say it isn't so!
The show reminds me of a Charlie Daniels song, ‘what this world needs are a few more rednecks’. Uncle Si is a hhoot. Every show has a family prayer included.
Maybe one of the reasons we watch it is because the men believe in God and pray at the dinner table and are more than just a bunch of hair. That and because they are a bunch of goofs with brains bigger than their liberal counterparts even though it’s cloaked by the way they look. Also like watching “I Love Lucy” in color with a bunch of Lucy’s at the same time...: )
It is fun to watch, and teaches too...like ol’ Mountain Man slowly (but successfully) building a lovely arbor for the wedding.
> I find it somewhat entertaining; though my impression is obvious that they are reciting their lines and performing as in a school play. Perhaps the show gets better as it goes. I’ll watch a few more
Actually I think the producers come up with several ideas and bounce them off of them and they choose which one they want to do. I don’t think its scripted but I do think some of them become hams once the camera starts rolling; Sy for sure.
I think you will like the show. It is fun, but of course it is not totally unscripted.
My favorite show right now.
This is great! I enjoy it because I know everytime one of the cast says “God” some liberal somewhere is creaming his depends.
It's an impassioned, awesome talk and his heart is 100 percent there.....
..actually the pro-life segment is only a part....he's addressing our national distress & talks about our forefathers.....try to find it, it's really good.
Don’t watch distracted, the hilarity is usually in talking head parts. Jace and Sy are a hoot.
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