Wait, did Discovery just fake a shark week documentary??

Anti-stance wrote: Unfortunately, Discovery and History channel have strayed from the format they had 10 years ago by doing more of these type of stupid "documentaries" and reality shows. Science channel had held out the longest but last I checked, it became the new SciFy channel playing a bunch of Firefly episodes. I blame Survivor. Since that show, it has all gone down hill.

FTFY

I am so tired of "reality" TV. Occasionally, I'll see something on History/TLC/Discovery that might be interesting, only to find out it is a very thinly veiled "reality" show.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NetworkDecay/TotalAbandonment

Racer1ab wrote: I'll reserve my judgment until I see the Sharknado documentary.

Some useful info in that one.

Found out that we can stop tornadoes with a camping stove fuel canister and a smoke detector

Oh yeah, and an electric hedge trimmer (with no cord) is a viable defense against flying sharks.

Cone_Junky wrote: Oh yeah, and an electric hedge trimmer (with no cord) is a viable defense against flying sharks.

Now see, this is the kind of valuable info Discovery should be sharing. . .

kazoospec wrote:

Cone_Junky wrote: Oh yeah, and an electric hedge trimmer (with no cord) is a viable defense against flying sharks.

Now see, this is the kind of valuable info Discovery should be sharing. . .

Don't say stuff like that! They don't have sarcasm on Betelgeuse, and the Discovery Channel executives often fail to notice it unless they are concentrating....

Anti-stance wrote: Unfortunately, Discovery and History channel have strayed from the format they had 10 years ago by doing more of these type of stupid "documentaries" and reality shows. Science channel had held out the longest but last I checked, it became the new SciFy channel playing a bunch of Firefly episodes. I blame Orange County Choppers. Since that show, it has all gone down hill.

American Chopper was just following the formula of every reality show since the edition of The Real World where Puck played the bad guy for the camera...

In reply to novaderrik:

Thanks for the correction. I will sleep better at night know the E36 M3ty show's name.

I understand the Real World on MTV was really the first reality TV show to start the reality TV movement, but American Chopper was the first show on the three named networks that started changing the programming for the worst. Now we have E36 M3 like American Pickers, Ice Road Truckers, Deadliest Catch, and shows like that on channels that used to contain more info on history and science.

I'm not saying shows like that shouldnt be on TV, they should just be on other channels. But unfortunately my opinion on the matter will not change the minds of the channels' executives, ratings, or the mouth breathers that watch those shows.

Hey...I like the ambiguously gay duo of American Pickers.

In reply to bgkast:

Idk, two guys, riding all over the country in a van and antiquing together?

Seems kinda...less than ambiguous.

Not that there's anything wrong with that....well, besides it being a crappy reality show on the friggin' History channel.

JoeyM wrote:

kazoospec wrote:

Cone_Junky wrote: Oh yeah, and an electric hedge trimmer (with no cord) is a viable defense against flying sharks.

Now see, this is the kind of valuable info Discovery should be sharing. . .

Don't say stuff like that! They don't have sarcasm on Betelgeuse, and the Discovery Channel executives often fail to notice it unless they are concentrating....

Look, without this kind of info I wouldn't know what to do in the event of a Sharknado (unlikely here in Michigan, but hey, apparently giant sharks aren't extinct, so who knows?). Confronted by a swirling whirlwind of sharks, and having only a hedge trimmer and a shotgun at hand, I'd go with the shotgun. Apparently, this would be the wrong answer, resulting in a gristly death.

Without Discovery, I also might not realize that double-sided porcelain oil signs are valuable and that rednecks like to make moonshine.

I miss the old history channel

As usual, the onion has wonderful coverage of this issue.....
http://www.theonion.com/articles/science-channel-refuses-to-dumb-down-science-any-f,2897/?ref=auto
that goes on three paragraphs longer than it ought to