Alaskan Bush People star hints reality show is coming back three years after final episode aired
Alaskan Bush People star Bear Brown has hinted that the reality show may be coming back three years after the final episode aired.
The Discovery Channel series, which premiered in 2014 and went on for 14 seasons before being put on a ‘hiatus’ in 2022, followed the Brown family as they lived in the remote wilderness in Alaska.
Now, Bear, 38, has shared a ‘promising update’ on the show in a video posted to TikTok this week.
In the clip, the former reality star told fans that they are ‘getting closer and closer’ to the return of Alaskan Bush People, despite the family’s legal troubles.
Back in 2021, late Brown patriarch Billy Brown‘s former business partner Robert Maughon filed a breach of contract lawsuit against his estate and business, Alaskan Wilderness Family Productions, for $500,000. The lawsuit is still ongoing.
Even so, Bear said in the video: ‘I wanted to give y’all that promising update. It looks like the [return of Alaskan Bush People] might be getting closer and closer.
‘A lot of people thought it would never happen, wouldn’t be possible. Well, it’s looking closer and closer to happening.’
He insisted that the reason the show was put on hiatus ‘had nothing to do with the lawsuit against his family,’ and said he was confident it would be ‘thrown out.’
Alaskan Bush People star Bear Brown has hinted that the reality show may be coming back three years after the final episode aired
The former reality star told fans in a new TikTok video that they are ‘getting closer and closer’ to the return of Alaskan Bush People, despite the family’s legal troubles
Instead, he claimed that the show stopped filming because of the ‘merger between Warner Bros. and Discovery Channel.’
The two companies merged in 2021, and Bear claimed their show got put on the back burner amidst all the new intellectual properties that Discovery gained by joining forces with Warner Bros.
But it was recently revealed that Warner Bros. Discovery would be splitting into two separate focused media companies by mid-2026 after Netflix purchased Warner Bros. for $82.7 billion.
While Bear said there is ‘no official word’ on Alaskan Bush People coming back yet, he said this was the first step towards its return.
‘If that happens, that means the Discovery Channel is by itself again and doesn’t have the extra IPs like Batman and Bugs Bunny and stuff,’ he said.
‘That greatly increases the [chance of the] return of Alaskan Bush People.’
‘Discovery is still interested in following the family,’ he added.
The family has faced immense blows in the months leading up to the hiatus.
Back in 2021, late Brown patriarch Billy Brown’s (seen) former business partner Robert Maughon filed a breach of contract lawsuit against his estate and business for $500,000
Bear (seen here in the show) insisted that the reason the show was put on hiatus ‘had nothing to do with the lawsuit against his family,’ and said he was confident it would be ‘thrown out’
The Discovery Channel series, which went on for 14 seasons before being put on a ‘hiatus’ in 2022, followed the Brown family as they lived in the remote wilderness in Alaska
Patriarch Billy passed away at age 68 in 2021 after suffering a seizure, and months later, his ex-business partner sued his estate.
According to documents obtained by The Sun, Robert claimed that Billy agreed to pay him 10 percent ‘of the gross income of Alaska Wilderness Family Productions… including books, movies, television and documentaries.’
‘Billy Bryan Brown and [the business] have failed to pay to Plaintiff the monies,’ it said.
Billy’s wife, Amora ‘Ami’ Brown, who is the executor of the estate, filed a motion to dismiss the case in February 2025.
She said the contract was entered in Alaska, where there’s ‘no joint community obligation of a spouse for the debts of the other spouse.’ A judge denied her request in April.
