# History Channel? Bah

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**Created:** [April 12, 2010, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/history-channel-bah/535791 "2010-04-12T00:44:16Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/history-channel-bah/535791/7 "2010-04-12T02:52:41Z")

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They jumped the shark with a bang in October 2007. Here’s what I posted at the time.

> [@The Day the History Channel Died](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-the-history-channel-died/424426/37):
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> I watched most of it that last night. I was hoping for something sensible. But we got 3 hours of credulous Nostradamus garbage, then an hour of Edgar Cayce garbage. Then repeated. From 5 PM to 3 AM. **10 HOURS** of wall-to-wall **CRAP**! I just couldn’t believe it.
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> This was in complete contrast to earlier programs which had knowledgeable people debunking Nostradamus.

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