found this...this show is the spin-off to below zero, bloody well knew they would have satellite signal

The process of casting the new series was much different than when the production originally cast Life Below Zero eight years ago. Back then, “most of them didn’t have access to the Internet,” Litzinger said, so producers ended up “driving around Alaska, asking pilots, asking local stores—do you know anyone who comes in every month?” They even put notices on trees.

For this new show, though, casting went online—like other reality shows regularly do: “blogs, YouTube videos, people who had somewhat of a minor online presence, or were just known by doing Google searches. All of the cast except for one—who won’t be on until January, the new batch of episodes—were currently living in Alaska when we started the show. However, they were in various states of living off the grid. Some of them were making the decision in that time to try to live full-time,” Litzinger said.

@Dame_Ann_Average posted:

found this...this show is the spin-off to below zero, bloody well knew they would have satellite signal

The process of casting the new series was much different than when the production originally cast Life Below Zero eight years ago. Back then, “most of them didn’t have access to the Internet,” Litzinger said, so producers ended up “driving around Alaska, asking pilots, asking local stores—do you know anyone who comes in every month?” They even put notices on trees.

For this new show, though, casting went online—like other reality shows regularly do: “blogs, YouTube videos, people who had somewhat of a minor online presence, or were just known by doing Google searches. All of the cast except for one—who won’t be on until January, the new batch of episodes—were currently living in Alaska when we started the show. However, they were in various states of living off the grid. Some of them were making the decision in that time to try to live full-time,” Litzinger said.

Interesting Dame

@Dame_Ann_Average posted:

if not, they all seem pretty useless for living off the grid

Yes

@Dame_Ann_Average posted:

found this...this show is the spin-off to below zero, bloody well knew they would have satellite signal

The process of casting the new series was much different than when the production originally cast Life Below Zero eight years ago. Back then, “most of them didn’t have access to the Internet,” Litzinger said, so producers ended up “driving around Alaska, asking pilots, asking local stores—do you know anyone who comes in every month?” They even put notices on trees.

For this new show, though, casting went online—like other reality shows regularly do: “blogs, YouTube videos, people who had somewhat of a minor online presence, or were just known by doing Google searches. All of the cast except for one—who won’t be on until January, the new batch of episodes—were currently living in Alaska when we started the show. However, they were in various states of living off the grid. Some of them were making the decision in that time to try to live full-time,” Litzinger said.

wow dammeee

@Baz posted:

Interesting Dame

yes

see the guy with glasses, no mention of his wife but he's wearing a ring, I reckon he's there for the filming and money and then back home to wifey

How the heck do they flush the loo

off grid ain't suiting him, he looks ill

@Dame_Ann_Average posted:

see the guy with glasses, no mention of his wife but he's wearing a ring, I reckon he's there for the filming and money and then back home to wifey

wow well spotted dammeee tbh it does feel staged at times

@Baz posted:

How the heck do they flush the loo

they have out houses Baz dig a deep hole and a shed with a homemade wooden seat

@Dame_Ann_Average posted:

see the guy with glasses, no mention of his wife but he's wearing a ring, I reckon he's there for the filming and money and then back home to wifey

Maybe he divorced ....and kept the j

@Dame_Ann_Average posted:

they have out houses Baz dig a deep hole and a shed with a homemade wooden seat

@Dame_Ann_Average posted:

they have out houses Baz dig a deep hole and a shed with a homemade wooden seat

Yuk...but they would still have to have some way to get rid if the effluent

@Rocking Ros Rose posted:

wow well spotted dammeee tbh it does feel staged at times

it was a bit obvious, most of the cabins were either unfinished or not lived in for ages, I think the only original is the native Alaskan jumper guy

@Dame_Ann_Average posted:

it was a bit obvious, most of the cabins were either unfinished or not lived in for ages, I think the only original is the native Alaskan jumper guy

@Baz posted:

Yuk...but they would still have to have some way to get rid if the effluent

stays in the ground Baz, they normally dig them to last 5 years ish and then just move the loo to another new hole and cover the old one up with soil out of the new one

@Dame_Ann_Average posted:

it was a bit obvious, most of the cabins were either unfinished or not lived in for ages, I think the only original is the native Alaskan jumper guy

the one with the rammy jumper - agree - the couple look as  though they are playing at it - especially her

@Dame_Ann_Average posted:

stays in the ground Baz, they normally dig them to last 5 years ish and then just move the loo to another new hole and cover the old one up with soil out of the new one

@Rocking Ros Rose posted:

the one with the rammy jumper - agree - the couple look as  though they are playing at it - especially her

yes, definitely

Think I’d pass on that fish

@Rocking Ros Rose posted:

the one with the rammy jumper - agree - the couple look as  though they are playing at it - especially her

Yes

@Rocking Ros Rose posted:

that's how the Kilchers do it Ros, although they now have running water into the properties but still have outside loos

@Baz posted:

Think I’d pass on that fish

@Dame_Ann_Average posted:

that's how the Kilchers do it Ros, although they now have running water into the properties but still have outside loos

But what about things for the time of the month etc ?

@Baz posted:

But what about things for the time of the month etc ?

I suppose they will burn them Baz...they burn most of their rubbish

@Dame_Ann_Average posted:

I suppose they will burn them Baz...they burn most of their rubbish

@Dame_Ann_Average posted:

that's how the Kilchers do it Ros, although they now have running water into the properties but still have outside loos

wow -must watch that programme sometime

I think jumper man is the most genuine

Satellite Internet

@Baz posted:

I think jumper man is the most genuine

yes agree bazzy

So they aren’t really off grid then !

That girl annoys me

@Rocking Ros Rose posted:

wow -must watch that programme sometime

What’s happened to the ones with the kids ?

@Baz posted:

Satellite Internet

*taps nose*

@Baz posted:

That girl annoys me

and me bazzy

@Baz posted:

What’s happened to the ones with the kids ?

Probably out looking for them

That water is filthy

@Dame_Ann_Average posted:

Probably out looking for them

yes

why cut it that big the thicko