The Decay of Discovery

[Plexus]

[rant]I've been wondering what has been going on with the Discovery Channel lately, there seem to be more and more shows aimed to a low-brow audience. There seem to be two kinds of shows: Homemaking and Motorcycle building, that seem to be getting quite a bit of air time. I mean, what DSC viewer wants to watch a bald man infatuated with pink painting walls or a bearded hill-billy related to a criminal with an arc welder? I sure as hell don't.[/rant]


*Sigh* Maybe I watch too much TV...

 

[aaglo]

You're lucky to even have Discovery...

 

[Chairman Yang]

Originally posted by aaglo
You're lucky to even have Discovery...

Yes, he is.

 

[Thadlerian]

What?? Are there other Discovery channel shows than just tornado documentaries and crocodile hunters?

 

[Renata]

<--- looooooooves Orange County Choppers (the motorcycle show)

Partly because I grew up in the region (not often you see anything on television about any aspect of semi-rural semi-upstate New York!), mostly because I think the father-son relationship is hilarious. My boyfriend likes it for the bikes, too.

The only stuff that annoys me on the Discovery Channel is the cheesy Walking With Dinosaurs-type pseudo-science shows. I'm probably weird, but I'd much rather watch an hour of paleontologists digging in the field than some artists' renderings running around with behaviors no one will ever be able to confirm, complete with pretentious nature-show voiceover.

Ick.

Renata

 

[vonork]

Discovery channel today is not that good anymore... but it's sister chanels, discovery sience and discovery civilazation are as the orignial chanel once where. So watch those two insted.

 

[andrewgprv]

Originally posted by vonork
Discovery channel today is not that good anymore... but it's sister chanels, discovery sience and discovery civilazation are as the orignial chanel once where. So watch those two insted.

Same thing with alot of other formerly great channels

History Channel, then History International

MTV, then M2

 

[Cimbri]

I have Discovery Europe, Discovery Civilizations, Discovery Science and Discovery Travel & Adventure (or something… never watch the last one…), National Geographic, Animal Planet and many other Discovery-like channels…

But I do enjoy the WW2-specials

 

[Dralix]

Originally posted by andrewgprv


Same thing with alot of other formerly great channels

History Channel, then History International

MTV, then M2

Sounds like a sinister plot to force us all to sattelite or digital cable

 

[Toasty]

Meh, you aren't missing much on the digital cable issue .

 

[Cimbri]

Originally posted by Dralix


Sounds like a sinister plot to force us all to sattelite or digital cable

Yeah! Digital cable rulz!

 

[Double Barrel]

I like Monster Garage & Orange County Choppers.

But, then again, I'm just a goateed hill-billy related to a criminal with a guitar, so what do I know!

 

[Aphex_Twin]

They don't have the money to fund a 24h channel full of new stuff. They make about 5 new documentaries every month and re-run everithingelse.

I for one am sick of the ghost stories/ alligator hunter / handymen and so-called science they preach. Paradoxically, one of the better shows is Fishing with Rex Hunt.

 

[Dark Ascendant]

I'd gladly trade Discovery for Sci-fi, which I don't have. And want.

 

[allhailIndia]

Discovery weekends are great and some of the sci-fi shows are extremely cool

 

[VoodooAce]

I get three Discovery and a couple History channels.

Seems like they, and other similar networks like TLC, kind of settled into niches they seem afraid to stray from too much. Apparently it works for them, though.

The History Channel is the Guns and Ammo Channel (not the 'hostory of guns and ammo'....just guns and ammo) half the time. Discovery thinks we're all either grease monkeys or interior designers. And TLC is fixated on child birth, lol.

The best things on any of these networks are usuall, imho, their original productions...like Discovery's Deep Blue Sea from a couple years ago. History's thing on Russia this weekend was ok.

 

[Bose]

Over here we have Discovery, National Geo, and the History Channel, which is 95% WWII doco's and 5% profiles on famous people...

 

[allhailIndia]

BTW get animal planet and NAtional Geographic here as well, plus some channel called Adventure 1, which seems to make taking the wildest and most neck-breaking of stunts as simple as ABC