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Remember when Discovery and the History Channel werent all about Ice truckers?
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I just remember both being more nerdy and actually liking that. Don't get me wrong, Deadliest Catch is fun from time to time, but is anyone else bored with Dirty Jobs, all those outback dude shows, and all the reality shows about professions you didn't even know existed and in some cases for good reason. I just like watching them explore shark caves for an hour more than I do some psuedo plot like show like Ice Truckers or something. Also while I enjoy aliens and bigfoot as much as the next guy, some of the shows they have on now have even less to say than the old alien documentaries.
Sigh, just give me more CGI dinosaurs fighting each other and I can't believe I'm saying this, but bring back Hitler...oh god I hope I never get quoted while running for president.
Sigh, just give me more CGI dinosaurs fighting each other and I can't believe I'm saying this, but bring back Hitler...oh god I hope I never get quoted while running for president.
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An example of the death of education I suppose.
Yeah thanks guys, real inciteful. If something actually had happened you'd stay around and actually give a shit for more than the 3 days it takes to film it.
I dunno anymore. How's the Science Channel nowadays?
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Grylls was in the equivalent of the National Guard Special Forces regiment and he injured himself in training. The only thing "impressive" about his credentials is that he managed to make it through Selection without harming himself too badly to finish it.
Bear Grylls' SAS? Stands for "Saturdays and Sundays".
The only impressive SAS alum (of which I am aware, anyway) on TV right now is Chris Ryan. If you can catch reruns of "Special Forces: Manhunt" on the Military Channel, it's worth a look.
And as far as Man vs. Wild/Survivorman, Les is, by far, the more experienced of the two at actually surviving in the wild. Survivorman is probably my favorite show on Discovery.
The Drillers/Truckers/Dirty Job shows are fairly uninteresting to me, as well.
Does anyone else find that "How It's Made" is strangely soothing to watch?
But I don't get the OP. Did you not watch Planet Earth or the Discovery Atlas series? There's plenty of "Discovery" shows on DC still. My only issue with Dirty Jobs is that at this point, they're stretching it a little with the idea of what's a "dirty" job.
I can't speak for TLC or History because I don't watch either channel, but I can say I watched one episode of Ice Road Truckers and learned it's an awful show.
Along the same lines, I miss Megastructures on National Geographic.
Blockbuster has a Discovery Channel section now. I'll have to pick up Atlas: China sometime.
I want a Cash Cab Season 1 DVD so much
Though they don't care about drama in the slightest and just focus on these people making awesome cakes.
Food Network got so old so fast for me. I can't even turn the channel to it anymore for fear of seeing the same episode of iron chef, or drive-ins diners and dives for the 100th time.
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I wonder if there are hours of footage of Geoff muttering incomprehensible things that they have saved up for some "Geoff: Too Weird for TV!" video collection.
I like all those shows, but now from 6-7 (central time) they show the stupid food network challenges. Ugh. I don't want to watch people make a cake for an hour. an hour .
I don't watch food getting made. Not my bag baby.
Unless Alton Brown is showing me how to dumpster dive a 7 course feast and use a manifold to prepare it, I couldn't care less.
Well how many episodes can you get before you start to reach the bottom of the barrel?
It was super cool! I'm just sad I can't remember what it was called.
Edit: ALIEN PLANET! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_Planet
I just wish they'd admit this and rename the show, "Cool Stuff Origins" or something.
The same thing happened to Dirty Jobs.
Well, it is Canadian.
I enjoy Deadliest Catch and Dirty Jobs, but they're not anything special. I do love Mythbusters, it's a nice presentation of the scientific method (they use controls, replication, etc.) plus shit blows up. And Kari will be my wife some day.
Oh, yes, she will be mine.
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I got tired of Food Network constantly making me hungry. Also I would think that I could replicate some of the dishes made and it would always end up in horrible to average tasting food...o the stomach aches...
On the actual thread topic:
What have they been doing to my beloved documentaries? Its like fucking MTV, pretty soon we're all going to be like "Hey, remember when TLC used to play documentaries?"
Ok, icetruckers, deadliest catch, dirty jobs, etc are all cool shows (not really my cup of tea, but still worth watching imo), but I have to draw the line when wedding and home remodeling shows come on. What is a person supposed to learn from said shows? How to blow $20k -$100k in one shot? Or that show John and Kate plus 8; I get it they have 8 kids, what am I learning besides how to keep from changing the channel when the babies are crying the entire show? I could go on forever, and thats a really sad thing.
I guess its becoming an increasingly strange concept to learn + watch TV. Have Americans become that lazy?
I hate that god damn show. And any other cake centric show on that channel. Probably because I hate cake, and would rather watch someone cook a steak or something.
Hmmm. I rarely see the same episodes. Except for Good Eats. They play the same damn 16 episodes over and over.
The offshoot channels are better. I don't remember which one it was, but one of the HD channels has a few hours block dedicated to what pretty much amounts to a camera sitting in front of some magnificent landscape.
My brother's girlfriend loves the Gameshow Network.
I can understand watching old episodes of Jeopardy. You learn shit.
But old episodes of Price is Right and Scrabble? Fuck off.
My favorite show on Discovery at the moment is a show I'm not sure you get in the US, I think it's Canadian, Mayday, they break down air disasters in really detailed ways and it's amazing to see how many independent things need to go wrong for a real accident to occur... maybe it's just because my major in college was aerospace that I love it.
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