Frazier Moore, who worked on The Red & Black at the University of Georgia with me in 1972, has reviewed Sarah Palin’s TLC show and….likes it. This being The Associated Press, and Frazier having written many things that irked me in the past, I must say I’m surprised. He’s upbeat about it from the start:

Whatever you may think of Sarah Palin, the fact remains Alaska is magnificent with her as its presenter.

“Sarah Palin’s Alaska,” premiering on TLC on Nov. 14, adds “TV host” to Palin’s crowded resume, which already includes former governor, former GOP vice presidential candidate, best-selling author and conservative superstar.

Palin also is a wife, a mother of five and a grandmother, of course, and her new series integrates her home life with Alaska’s great outdoors.

He learned from the show’s producer that the Palins are, in fact, a very close family, not just eye candy for the convention dais:

The series is produced by Mark Burnett, whose many credits include “Survivor” and “The Apprentice.” In a recent interview with The Associated Press, he marveled at how gung-ho all the Palins were in taking part.

“It would start out with, ‘We’re gonna have Sarah and Todd do something,'” Burnett said. “And as she’s getting ready, she would say, ‘Piper, you want to come? Willow, you want to come?’ Take the politics away, and this is a family, and they hang out a lot together.”

I’m setting my DVR right now.