Kirstie Alley’s new reality show “Kirstie Alley’s Big Life,” will premiere on A&E on March 21. A&E has released a trailer, above, and frankly it doesn’t look bad. Kirstie seems wacky as hell and a little unhinged, but in a fun way. As long as producers keep Kirstie from talking about the dangers of psychiatry (as Scientologist Kirstie often does on her Twitter account) she should be fine.

In the trailer, Kirstie vows that she’s going to lose weight, but we’ve heard this one from her many, many times. Sure she’s big and I don’t think we should make fun of her for that. What we should make fun of are the many public proclamations she’s made -and broken- that she’s going to lose weight. Just don’t talk about it until it’s a done deal.

After seeing the people around Kirstie I’m thinking “how many of them are Scientologists?” and “are they going to sneak Scientolo-speak and Scientology concepts into this show?” I also get the impression at first that Kirstie is funny and seems to have a good attitude. There’s something really sad about her, though, and it’s like she makes fun of herself but feels like total crap. Maybe she’ll get some mileage and some motivation out of this show. Or maybe people will largely ignore her as they’ve done in the past. She can only play out this yo-yo dieting concept for so long.

Thanks to The Huffington Post for the heads up.