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GBTV’s New Reality Series Is Exactly What You’d Expect A Glenn Beck-Produced Reality Series To Be

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Glenn Beck has been in the news quite a bit the past few days but, no matter how many media fights he gets in, the real story for him continues to be the development of his network GBTV. It’s been interesting to see the different shows the network has produced and how closely they adhere to the Beck brand. For example, the political comedy show, The B.S. of A., has had some jokes that seem like they fit the big boss’ ideology (like this funny communist game show bit) while other segments make it clear that, as Brian Sack promised, the show’s its own thing. So, some might be asking when GBTV is going to produce a show that really feels like a Glenn Beck show. Where’s the piece of television that completely embodies everything he represents and distills it into a narrative chunk?

Well, how about a reality series about an American family heading off into the woods to learn how to use guns so as to prepare for some kind of vaguely defined apocalypse? Oh my God, yes.

RELATED: Glenn Beck: I’d Vote For A Ron Paul Third Party Candidacy Over Newt Gingrich

The absolute Beck-gasm I just described is apparently a real thing. It’s called Independence USA and it’s premiering in January. I’ll let the GBTV press release give you a description:

“Concerned that the economy could collapse? Or that a natural disaster could wipe out our infrastructure? So is Frank, and he is doing something about it! Believing that America has become too reliant on a crumbling foundation, Frank is preparing his family for life “off the grid,” admiring the way people lived in the 19th century. Like them, he longs to become completely independent. So he is embarking on one project at a time hoping to prepare his family for the worst, such as building a car that runs on wood in case gasoline supplies are interrupted, becoming expert hunters when grocery stores are no longer in existence, and making his own alcohol for barter when the dollar collapses. Frank does it all with determination, intelligence, and good humor. He’ll need all that and more, as he attempts to motivate a family that neither shares his fervor nor wishes to sacrifice the comforts and conveniences of 21st century life. In the series premiere- ‘A Hunting We Will Go’- we meet the Belcastro’s as they set out on a journey to be a self-sufficient family. Frank wants the family to be able to hunt and kill their own food but not every one is on board. Starting with making their own weapons Frank and his son Adam really learn an appreciation for the hunt but wonder if they will succeed.”

Holy crap, Glenn Beck made a show about a family making their own alcohol in the woods. This is too good to be true. Don’t believe me? Just look at this title card from the newly released trailer:


Just look at that. LOOK AT IT! It’s an American family engulfed in flames for no reason. It’s beautiful. This thing is like Sarah Palin’s Alaska on crack. Crack that it made itself because it’s independent.

January 18th can not come soon enough.

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  • Anonymous

    ‘ I am not crazy’. HAHA. Bless them.

  • Anonymous

    Epic!

    He says he´s not crazy and the world wont end tomorrow, but regardless everyday will be independence day even if it kills them.

    Rarely, I have heard a more “reasonable” statement.

    This show has big potential. Could become a comedy classic.

  • Henry Wood

    When these sissy liberals come to chop your head off with a rusty machete, you’ll be glad you bought all that gold from Goldline.

  • http://twitter.com/Bennybombom Ben

    HO.
    LY.
    SHEET.

    This guy is getting paid to be crazy on the teevee….wow.

  • Anonymous

    I can’t stand Beck, but I have to admit I think he’s got a winner here. Conservatives will tune in out of fear, and to live vicariously (through the magic of the internet, how ironic) “off the grid”, and progressives will watch in the hopes that the crazy bastard shoots himself in the foot. Conservatives see it as reality TV, progressives see it as parody, and Glenn gets to keep all the money! The classic win-win-win!

  • Anonymous

    sounds like a long infomercial for Becks rackets. 

  • Anonymous

    ‘Even if it kills us’? That defeats the purpose, no? lol.

  • SoThere

    Jon Bershad is a racist!
    “TMP”

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1572984371 Cindy Nowicki

     Beck is an innovator and a  creative genius! He’s giving a conservative audience what they have longed for. Their own voice, platform and programming…Minus the left wing bias in news and television today!

    He is no longer confined by  the rules and regulations of the MSM!

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    I’m glad to see this. Not that I subscribe to this krap, but last night my wife and I were cutting up fruit for this year’s fruitcake, and she commented to me that once the Republican nominee is chosen and the debates end we won’t be able to watch a bunch of Crackers on television any more.

  • Holistic

    Bershad is one who has no clue what happens in life west of New Jersey. East Coast psuedo-elitist.

  • Holistic

    Wow! That is a knee slapper! Uh-you do understand knee slapper right?

  • bob ross

    “Green acres is the place to beFarm living is the life for meLand spreading out,so far and wideKeep Manhattan, just give me that countryside.”
    “New Yorkis where I’d rather stayI get allergic smelling hayI just adore a penthouse viewDarling, I love you,but give me Park Avenue.”
    They already did it Glenn….What a putz!

  • Anonymous

    That is why he is now able to let his “insanity” run wild!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IC7HRBJRXKA7IKTTZS5W3UIECQ Agent of Truth

    Fox fake news channel wil no longer be the Mecca for idiots in this nation.  Glenn Beck will now have his own channel where he can deliver his twisted right wing extremist blow jobs 24 x 7 to tea bagging idiots who do not know there ass from a brain.  It will probably work.

  • OSTL

    Glenn Beck TV appreciates your support, viewership and also wishes you a very Merry Christmas!

  • Anonymous

    SNL has just been handed a ‘gift’ from Mr. Becks the Halls… this will no doubt be priceless. I will be anticipating the episode where the teenage daughter runs away from her crazy father and ends up homeless on the streets, camping with the OWS crowd.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Deb-Speelman/1032089743 Deb Speelman

    When it all comes down you’ll wish you’d listened to him.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_6676USMYTNOPJD2KGAFS2VV34Q Arnoldo Aleman

    “to tea bagging idiots who do not know there ass from a brain”

    Hmmmm … maybe you should have taken English as part of your BA in Gender Studies.

  • Bunghole Stench

    You’d still have to get the one out of the white house wouldn’t you? He’s on tv about every chance he gets.

  • Bunghole Stench

    there? I think you might be talking out of your brain again.

  • Bunghole Stench

    I kind of wish Beck would have picked some Liberal weenies for the show. It’d be a hoot watching them all die a slow death because they can’t so much as wipe themselves! He missed the boat on this one.

  • deewicket

    What do you have to do to live in your fantasy world?  Is it expensive?

  • deewicket

    And the couple were much better looking.

  • deewicket

    Deb: Knowledge will help you calm your fears.

  • deewicket

    I’ll bet your mummy is proud of you!

  • Bunghole Stench

    Yours is. (dickweed)

  • clever

    The problem with libtards they think they have knowledge when they get there news from Mediaite as if it is a credible news site with real journalists that are not bias instead of left wing wack job bloggers with OPINION and selected sound bites that favot there agenda of discrediting someone who would not hire them to shine his boots.

  • clever

    Wow, you think your the intelligent one.Guess what you come off a wee bit stupid sounding.

  • clever

    Does your libtard wife think that is as funny as your 1 inch penis?

  • clever

    Not everyone has a Libtard fantasy of getting banged by 5 guys and a german shepard.

  • Anonymous

    Isn’t that the ‘same family’ that had that reality show already aired on a station on TV?  It seems to me like that’s the same man and son that converted their truck to run on used deep fryer oil, and when they drove the truck into town the exhaust smelled like french fries.  I DO THINK that is the same show/family. 

  • Anonymous

    This is compelling material for those that can’t think for themselves.  Beck is laughing all the way to the bank because those same people will buy anything from his manipulations concerning race, politics, religion and class economics.

    They just don’t realize the level of exploitation.  Gotta give him credit for being a businessman that knows his market.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Gregory-Smith/100001741334953 Gregory Smith

    So let me get this straight, a STATIST like you thinks that this compelling material is for people who can’t think the way the state wants them to think? I’ll have you know that I think for myself and unlike you, I don’t need the government telling me what to eat, drink, smoke or think. I admire Beck for creating a show far more entertaining and meaningful than the usual Hollywod crap.

    http://libertarians4freedom.blogspot.com/

  • Anonymous

    Hey Glenn, how about a show called:

    “All-American liberal”  Or, is that just an oxymoron?

  • Anonymous

    That remark isn’t even clever, save intelligent or accurate

  • Anonymous

    God, I hate those “psuedo” elitists more than the real thang!

  • Anonymous

    Taking A Machete To A Gunfight !!!

    What A Brilliant Idea !!

  • Anonymous

    Crackers !!  Cheez-its !!  Fritos !!  Half-Baked Alaskan !! TollBooth !!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jamie-Murphy/1788049486 Jamie Murphy

    Er… after watching that trail, my thoughts were: “Looks crazy and trashy like an episode of Jersey Shore, I’ll pass…”

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    Glenn who?

  • Holistic

    I feel your pain.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SIYF5565LXG7BBKTKGSSFWU7TA The Rock

    Your wrong Beck has never created anything entertaining and this show is nothing but end of the world and ad’s are for those end of world kits as well. Hollywood has a lot entertaining and meanful shows that aren’t crap so your claim which are lies.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SIYF5565LXG7BBKTKGSSFWU7TA The Rock

    I thought it was matter of time before Glenn Beck would put end of the world reality series and it doesn’t sound entertaining at all either. End Of The World Kits will be selling this show LMAO. 

  • Anonymous

    I’m with you most of the time, but this fruitcake business has slowed me up.

  • Anonymous

    The “teas” love to watch train wrecks, so it will work!

  • Anonymous

    Greg you made my point all by yourself.  Or, maybe I can find canned responses from Glenn Beck that you probably paid money to copy and paste!

    Nothing personal but,…….You are pathetic!

  • Anonymous

    This reality show is for two kinds of people:  1)  mindless conspiracy theorists who need Glenn Beck to wipe the drool off their chins and profit off of their idiocy and  2) people laughing hysterically at conservatives who have gone off the deep end and are preparing for a zombie-free zombie apocalypse yet again.

    If it weren’t such a shameless marketing attempt, this show might be the best new comedy show ever.  And that’s saying something, considering I’ve seen Glenn Beck’s other shows.  ;D

  • Anonymous

    Damn.  I never thought I would say this.  I might actually watch something on GBTV!

  • Anonymous

    Can you imagine a whimpy Progressive watching anything manly?  I certainly can’t, lol!  Looney Tunes deserve only to be caged off and let them feed off one another until they are all deceased.  I love it when Liberals get their panties in a twist over little things.  They all remind me of women during their monthly, lol!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    Funny how all these fake populist conservatives are so in touch with the heartland that they can’t leave the gated communities of the lib’rul Northeast they so despise.
    Beck, Coulter, Hannity, etc – all live in the immediate NYC area.

  • Anonymous

    BERSHAD’

    Quote: “Vaguely defined apocalypse”

    History books are full of “vaguely defined apocalypse,’” Frequently, they are called WARS.  However, at some time in their life cycle, one could easily refer to them as “vaguely defined,” even amorphous?

    I suppose that the American Revolution was once “vaguely defined,” but, those warmongers, the Minutemen had to go and start a war.  There were lots of Loyalists in Boston and elsewhere who would have preferred to remain “vaguely defined.”  I suppose the citizens and soldiers of Pearl Harbor were “Vaguely defined” until those pesky Japanese showed up?

    Mr. Bersahd, and others,

    You go to sleep at night under a blanket of protection, provided by people very unlike you.  However, be assured that if everything remains “vaguely defined,” no harm, no foul.  But, if you are wrong and things become “DEFINED,”  you are going to have to ask people like me for help, you may even have to ask Glenn Beck or those awful survivalists.

    The truth is, we’ll help you.  Isn’t that nice?

    Purveyor

  • Anonymous

    Your choice of pseudonym is vulgar.

    Anyway, “dickweed?”  The last time I heard anyone use that term was an Army Sergeant in 1986.  He had been based at Ft Knox Kentucky and spent at least a year in Korea.

    His Official title was “Cavalry Scout,”  but, did love his Tanker Boots!

    I think he picked up the term “dickweed” in Basic Training?  Anyway, it occurs to me their must be an elite fraternity of soldiers who use the term “dickweed” out there?  LOL

  • Anonymous

    A predictable, silly online site calling another site predictable. Oh, the laughs you share mediaite.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_MPPK2CTPRQYEYSXVOFVUJRX3SQ ken

    “We are too reliant, we are too dependent”. On each other. This civilization is run by people who want to control you. You know all them laws and regulations ? ANARCHISTS UNITE !

  • Anonymous

    I just have to ask the question. Where do you get your news?

  • Anonymous

    Not without payin Old Glenn you won’t.

  • Anonymous

    Its the story of daniel boone and his moonshine still: once it starts pouring out, I can’t stop it.

  • Anonymous

    Those flames indicate a pants on fire lie by glenn, I suspect.

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    I think Beck moved to Texas, but I am sure he still lives in a gated community.

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    You do know this show was on the discovery networks first and cancelled due to low ratings right?

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    Some one has seen a Boy and his Dog and read The Road one too many times.

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  • Anonymous

    I sent you letter a day or so ago.  I asked about the word “dickweed?”

    Where did you acquire the word for your vocabulary?  It is a very arcane Army term.

    Purveyor

  • John Brailsford

    What’s wrong with learning how to be self-sufficient? Ask people in Haiti, Chile, New Zealand and Japan if that’s such a bad idea. Is the USA somehow immune to disasters? I don’t think so. Ask the folks in New Orleans if it’s a good idea to know how to find your own food, clean water and shelter, or provide for your own emergency medical care. Even if you only have to get by for a week or two, such information can be valuable. I don’t know if this show is going to be good or not, but I think the idea is a good one.

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