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Jewel is returning to her homeland. This week, Discovery announced the singer-songwriter will appear in the upcoming sixth season of Alaska: The Last Frontier.
The docuseries follows the Kilcher family, Jewel’s relatives, on their homestead in rural Alaska.
The new season will mark Jewel’s return to Alaska after nearly seven years. Season six of Alaska: The Last Frontier premieres on October 2nd at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
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(Los Angeles) – Grammy award-winning singer, Jewel Kilcher, better known as “Jewel” grew up in Homer, Alaska, born into the rich heritage of homesteading. The Kilcher family has cultivated and inhabited their Alaskan homestead for generations, learning how to live off the land, hunt for food and survive the harsh Alaskan wilderness. After nearly seven years away, Jewel returns to rejoin her family on the homestead and give her young son a taste of how she grew up. The new season of Discovery’s ALASKA: THE LAST FRONTIER, premieres Sunday, October 2 at 9PM ET/PT.
Prior to Jewel’s return, Mother Nature challenges the Kilcher family when a 7.1 magnitude earthquake hits, shaking the homestead to its core. In the wake of the natural disaster, the Kilchers scramble to recover, facing widespread damage in the form of dangerous landslides, muddy road collapses and the bonus of deadly gale force winds. With their way of life at risk, the Kilchers must learn to adapt to this new reality.
The earthquake causes the first shakeup of the season but certainly not the last. Otto and Charlotte face their own mortality as Otto goes under the knife to fix his life-threatening hernia and Charlotte bids a final farewell to her mother. Eivin and Eve continue to focus on their own home but Eivin finds himself pulled to help his aging father more and more facing the realization that it’s becoming time to step up. Meanwhile, Atz Lee and Jane remain at odds about his desire to move deeper into the Alaskan wild causing a rift in their relationship. Pushed to their limits by both nature and each other, the Kilchers must all come together as a family to sustain the free and simple life of homesteading they’ve chosen to proudly carry on.
ALASKA: THE LAST FRONTIER is produced for Discovery Channel by Discovery Studios. Executive Producers are Daniel Soiseth,Vince Ueber and Brigham Cottam and Co-Executive Producer is Dustin Rubin. For Discovery Channel, Executive Producer is Matt Vafiadis and Coordinating Producer is Brian Peterson.
What do you think? Are you a fan of Jewel? Will you watch the new season of Alaska: The Last Frontier?
The last frontier does a great job making the hard life of homesteading in Alaska look romantic and simple. Great show but it somehow seems unreal with the amount of capital equipment at the clans disposal. The income of the program has trickeled on screen over past years, changing the very nature of the lifestyle which the show setout to portray. A bit ironic I think, compounded by the consistent development of the land for farm uses and added structures. Seems sprawl is human nature no mater the size of your great city or tiny village…
I love the programme, quite addicted to it actually
I love this show. They seem like real people. I love how much the meaning of family and the respect they give to the animals they have to kill for food.
Kilchers are awesome, can’t wait for the new season. Anxious to see how Jewel will fit in. I know the family will make sure she knows they love her. Also news about Kellie, their cabin, growth of the children and how everyone survived the earthquake. Kilchers rule.
Love this show….as generations 5..6..and 7 of my own family still live on our family land here in Iowa. 3 of us were young widows but managed to hold on.. can’t wait for Jewels visit.