How 'bout the “Actual Science. No, Really” Channel? About, y’know, actual science. Physics. Chemistry. Biology. Geology. Geography. Astronomy. Medicine. Psychology. Sociology. Space exploration. Deep sea exploration. There’s no lack of subject material.
Which means we can exclude a few things that are commonly found on channels supposedly dedicated to science, “discovery” cough, and “learning.” cough cough
No psychics.
No alternative medicine.
No ghosts.
No UFOs.
No alien astronauts.
No rediscoviering Atlantis.
No Bigfoot.
No Loch Ness monster.
No Bermuda triangle.
No more freakin’ nonsense.
Okay, I take it back. We can have some shows about this stuff. But they have to be actual science shows.
But absolutely not “Are ________s Real? We’ll give you two hours of credulous weenies spouting factual errors and logical fallacies and sympathetic recreations of inadequately documented events, plus fake and doctored footage, then we’ll give the skeptical side thirty minutes to disagree—then you can decide for yourself! Are ________s Real? Thursday at 7, on the Supposed Science Channel.”
**The Japanese Monster Movie Channel ** – for those times when you’ve just gotta have your Godzilla/Gamera/Mothra, etc. fix. They wouldn’t even have to print a schedule, because it doesn’t matter what movie it is, or when it starts. Turn it on anytime, and there you go: men in rubber suits knocking down balsa wood model cities. Yee-hah!
The Chan Channel – all Jackie Chan movies, all the time. For more or less the same reasons as above.
**The Classic But Now Politically Incorrect Stuff That Everyone Else is Afraid to Run But is Still Funny to Those of Us Who Aren’t Overly Sensitive Channel ** – filled with such gems as The Jack Benny Program, Our Gang/Little Rascals, the old “Inky & the Myna Bird” cartoons, etc.
He is, sort of. There’s a new service where you can watch any wrestling match that McMahon owns the rights to (any old WWF, WCW, ECW, and a few others) online for either a monthly fee or a match-by-match basis. Only thing wrong with it is you can only watch it online.
The Video Game Channel – because, really, it’s long overdue. I want tournaments, reviews, footage of super-cool sessions, news, tips, and maybe some old Nintendo cartoons on Saturday morning.
The Liberal Media Channel – a real liberal media, dammit, not the imaginary bullstuff the right-wing nutjobs keep yammering about.
The Robot Channel – 'cuz, like, they’re robots! What could be cooler?
I was thinking they needed PSC - The Pesudo-Science Channel. A place where all the wacky shows you just mentioned could be shown. I’d watch it occasionally when I needed a laugh. There also needs to be a channel for Bridal/Wedding/Birth’n shows. That was The Discovery Channel and The Learning Channel can have their bandwidth back to actually show, I don’t know, discovery and learning stuff?
I too have thought there should be an all-Simpsons channel. Or if that doesn’t get the ratings, throw in Beavis and Butthead and Futurama for a few hours each day.