Discovery Channel?

[Zeb_Carter]

So, since when did the Discovery Channel change from discovering the marvels and wonders of the universe to discovering the marvels and idiocy of America?

 

[Darkniciad]

Since science and history don't garner any ratings. It's the same reason there are no music videos on MTV.

I miss the old programming, but I grew up watching Cousteau and Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.

That being said, I enjoy Mythbusters and several of the other new reality-type shows as well. I just wish there was a place for both.

 

[johneb87]

History Channel too, at least their second channel, H2. Ancient Aliens? Bigfoot: The Definitive Guide? Really?

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Since science and history don't garner any ratings. It's the same reason there are no music videos on MTV.

I miss the old programming, but I grew up watching Cousteau and Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.

That being said, I enjoy Mythbusters and several of the other new reality-type shows as well. I just wish there was a place for both.

I love Mythbusters! I know Discovery has like four other channels D2 and Dwings are two, that you have to pay to get. I understand economics and moving your good shows to the pay channels. But replacing them with the likes of Tickle?

History Channel too, at least their second channel, H2. Ancient Aliens? Bigfoot: The Definitive Guide? Really?

They are recycling old history channel things with a new spin is all. The history of the ancient places is still the same, but "could it also be because they had help from Aliens?"

And they have yet to find Bigfoot, but it's not my money they are wasting...or maybe it is?!?!

 

[emap]

Discovery still does regular educational shows, like they had one over the weekend or Monday i forget a show on Megalodon. They try and prove that megalodon didn't go extinct it just wasn't in places ships went. Unless the entire thing was faked they showed that there is something in the water with the size.

Quite interesting though they don't prove it was megalodon, they just show there is something huge out there eating wales and sinking a boating ship.

 

[Darkniciad]

Discovery still does regular educational shows, like they had one over the weekend or Monday i forget a show on Megalodon. They try and prove that megalodon didn't go extinct it just wasn't in places ships went. Unless the entire thing was faked they showed that there is something in the water with the size.

Quite interesting though they don't prove it was megalodon, they just show there is something huge out there eating wales and sinking a boating ship.

That show was fake. They pulled the same things with mermaids a while back. They're just playing on the old formula of their documentaries and applying them to bullshit, doing a pretty good job of making them seem plausible.

( Mainly because so many of us have grown up being shown those documentaries in school and thus installing the formula in our brain as "fact" )

http://www.snopes.com/critters/malice/megalodon.asp

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Discovery still does regular educational shows, like they had one over the weekend or Monday i forget a show on Megalodon. They try and prove that megalodon didn't go extinct it just wasn't in places ships went. Unless the entire thing was faked they showed that there is something in the water with the size.

Quite interesting though they don't prove it was megalodon, they just show there is something huge out there eating wales and sinking a boating ship.

I know they sometimes have an interesting program on, it's just the other drivel they foist upon us that I have a problem with.

So...this megalodon lives by the British Isles somewhere in the Irish Sea? Or did you really mean whales, the mammalian kind, not the Welch.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I stopped watching tv when HOME IMPROVEMENT ended.

I occasionally buy a NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC vid.