Looks like Meghan McCain will be upstaging her father for once.
While her father, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), will be starring in an episode of National Geographic Channel’s “Locked Up Abroad” next month, his daughter Meghan will be getting her own TV show on the newly christened pivot cable channel this summer.
The younger McCain announced the big news via Twitter on Wednesday.
I am SO EXCITED to announce my first series “Raising McCain” will premiere this summer on Participant’s new cable network PIVOT!!!
— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) March 27, 2013
McCain’s show, “Raising McCain,” will follow her as she hits the road interviewing both experts and average Joe’s alike. So far the network has ordered 10 half-hour episodes that will begin airing on August 1.
In describing her show, McCain tweets that (note – NSFW):
The only way I can describe my series is it’s meet the press meets jackass – on the road talk show, and it’s the opportunity of a lifetime!
— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) March 27, 2013
Participant Media, which owns pivot, created the channel as a way to reach out to Millennials. Pivot will air a mix of narrative films, documentaries, comedies and dramas, including a show co-hosted by actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt of “3rd Rock from the Sun” fame. So far, the network plans to have a reach of 40 million cable subscribers when it launches in August. The network also plans to run a broadband-only feed of the channel for a monthly fee.
“We’re told … that young people can’t have news because we’re just tweeting all the time, and that’s just bullsh**,” McCain said during the presentation for the launch of Pilot TV.
Let’s just hope that McCain’s show isn’t as disappointing as Vice President Joe Biden’s new series. It’s already promising the White House isn’t producing it.
h/t Washington Examiner.
