Yukon Men: Is Tanana presented realistically enough to bring viewers back?

The new Discovery Channel series Yukon Men aired last night, and not everyone had favorable reviews.

[Your Alaska Guide]

Maybe this is entertainment for the lower 49, however those of us Alaskans who have been to Tanana know this is a joke. Nobody is going to starve to death. There is a store in town as well as an airport. While I was there we had pizza and stuff flown in from Fairbanks.
This is an Alaska village with no roads in however you can fly or snow machine the frozen river.

[Jackie D from Minnesota]

Your Alaska Guide wrote:

Maybe this is entertainment for the lower 49, however those of us Alaskans who have been to Tanana know this is a joke. Nobody is going to starve to death. There is a store in town as well as an airport. While I was there we had pizza and stuff flown in from Fairbanks.
This is an Alaska village with no roads in however you can fly or snow machine the frozen river.

I enjoy the Alaska wilderness but I don't think anyone is going to starve up there in Tanana. I heard remarks that it is a joke to keep filming this. It really has to be more truthful if it isn't. And if you want to film a program such as this just state its the way it used to be. How the Alaskan natives lived at one time.

[Bud]

There is no extreme hunger with the food stamp President in office, even in Tanana.

[cookie boots]

I'm starving in Tanana

[Alaskan since birth]

Yes of course the Alaskan villages have stores where you can buy food; but it's the COST of freighting in those groceries that causes the villagers to hunt/fish for food. If you tried to live off the village store, you would be broke in no time.
Another main reason for avoiding beef/pork/chicken is due to how pumped full of hormones and preservatives those meats are. Wild game is much tastier and healthier for you. Why do you think you have so much cancer in the lower 48 states?

[RANISAVLJEVIC]

That people there in Tanana are brave i love to wach ewery episode of yukon man, But also i love to see Opra Winfrie giving away some staf in Tanana like snow mashines or boats for free, is hard life there and they need help that is America too

[canadian blondy]

I love it, I wish I can leave toronto 2.5 million city and live like them. I give them full respect for what they do and how hard they work. Im done with my 9-5pm behind these grey walls at a desk, CANT STAND IT U FEEL USELESS IN LIFE. I want to get out in nature grow my own food and hunt. camping doesn't do it for me no more. I want to live like the Yukon men and women away from the city, media, governments, and all the bullshit they feed us.

[Sandi Dee]

I love watching Yukon men and everything they go through I was just wondering how much a new snow machine would cost in Tanana

[Alaskan since birth]

Sandi Dee wrote:

I love watching Yukon men and everything they go through I was just wondering how much a new snow machine would cost in Tanana

http://www.northernpowersports.com/index.htm
Click on the above link to see Fairbanks prices. You would need to buy in Fairbanks, then either drive it to Tanana in Winter or ship it by barge after the ice goes out in the Spring. No snowmachine shop in Tanana itself.