Bristol Palin is the eldest daughter of former Vice-Presidential candidate and former Alaska governor Sarah Palin. Last year, in early May, her reality TV show was announced, but it has been languishing fairly quietly since then. The air date is finally set: June 19.

HIGHLY ANTICIPATED DOCUSERIES, BRISTOL PALIN: LIFE'S A TRIPP TO AIR JUNE 19 (He's a really cute kid)
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Since its first announcement, the premise of the show changed once, and now it's changed again, bringing the tally of ideas for the show to three, to date. Lifetime has announced that it will telecast two episodes of “Bristol Palin: Life’s a Tripp” every Tuesday night. The network's blurb on the show said it will follow Palin’s life as a single mom “living under intense media scrutiny that comes from her lineage as the daughter of former Alaska Governor and Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin.”

At the time it was announced, BIO said it had ordered 10 half-hour episodes of the then-unnamed reality series. It was set to follow Bristol Palin and her son Tripp as they moved to Los Angeles where Palin would work for a small charity there. She was, it would said, move in with “her good friends Chris and Kyle Massey.” It was first to air on BIO, then shifted A&E and then to the Lifetime network. All three networks fall under A&E Television Networks (AETN).

Bristol Palin and Kyle Massey, the network explained, became BFFs while competing on ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars.” Any idea that the pair had become an item were soundly rebuffed. Read more;