Discovery Channel is crap

Initially the Discovery Channel was about science. In the beginning they filled in some time slots with programs about UFOs, the Loch Ness Monster and lots of old science and speculative TV specials from previous decades; however, now things have changed a lot. Junkyard Wars and even MythBusters can at least be considered slightly scientific, but shows like Cash Cab, Dirty Jobs, American Chopper, Monster Garage and a few other are more mainstream. They eventually made another channel called Discovery Science which eventually became the Science Channel.

I don’t watch a lot of TV, since it’s something I just now began to really notice. But it makes me wonder if the “reality-based”/pseudo-documentary TV trend has gone too far. At least during the talk show TV trend days, you couldn’t modify them into any other kind of genre to show on other TV stations.

I preferred the Discovery Channel when it was boring to everyone else. But in order to capture more of the general audience they sacrificed their niche audience. Which reminds me, I saw a medieval-based fantasy B-movie on the SciFi Channel recently. I’m not sure how dragons and swords are related to science fiction, but I guess they ran out of programming.

I just hope the History Channel doesn’t end up like Discovery, fortunately it’s not owned by them. Digging for the Truth and Mail Call aren’t too bad, but if they continue too much down that path, they will lose their niche audience.

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3 Comments to “Discovery Channel is crap”

  1. 1 · Anonymous says:

    Dude you are so right.I was thinking that I was the only guy on earth who noticed!
    Discovery Channel is going with the semi-real live tv show trend,and it sickens me.
    There isnt a single documentary that is crap

    Jul 27, 2007 at 10:17 am
  2. 2 · Julian says:

    I totally agree! The excessive use of cgi animations, the strobe zooming effects, the multiple frames to infinity, the hyperbole in the dialogue. (Oops, now I’m talking like them, forgot the verb.)

    Also can’t stand the repetition of what they went through before the breaks.

    Their ability to “squeeze” a 15 minute show into 60 minutes is amazing.

    Also the stobe scrolling oversized font characters.

    So who notices the program among the effects.

    Total crap!!

    Why let the facts get in the way of a good story?

    I watched their version of the North Sea Platform disaster. It bore little resemblance to a documentary on the same disaster called “As It Happened” which aired here in Australia on SBS.

    Jan 5, 2008 at 4:21 am
  3. 3 · Anonymous says:

    Here Here… I vote crap too. It is nothing but Propoganda. Where are the real Scholars? The Gates Millennium Scholars? I doubt it…

    capitalism crap.

    Sep 8, 2008 at 11:09 pm

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