UPDATE: Discovery has pushed the premiere of Alaska: The Last Frontier Season 6 from its original October 2, 2016 launch to October 16.
Singer Jewel Returns Home for First Time in Seven Years on New Season of ‘Alaska: The Last Frontier’
The sixth season premieres Sunday, October 2 at 9PM ET/PT
(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.
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Ron Lewis says
Glad to see the the show returning. They have become like family members who you don’t see often but are delighted when you do.
Nanette says
Agree – just wish they’d left Jewel out. Nothing personal against Jewel whatsoever – just saying it change the show completely. No giggles, no gaffs, and I fins it hard to believe a millionaire is going to allow her son Case’s dace to be show on TV. – Especially since everybody knows exactly where they are.
The Homer Chamber of Commerce and Real Estate sales people are already scrambling to make Homer uber attractive – now this.
If the locals sneer at Atz Lee shopping in the local Safeway for grated cheese – how are they going to react with Jewel back in the area?
She could have easily returned to the Homestead – out of the limelight. Incognito, as it were.
Discovery sure as hell doesn’t need Grammys to entice a loyal following!
BAD move Discovery.