You must really like that one channel …
You forgot that some of their, ahem, content had already been proven to be something harmless months before their show aired. But still wild speculation and no conclusions.
:rolleyes::smack:
*What on Earth *is a really stupid show. They look at Google Earth and other aerial pictures and find anomalies, glitches or just artifacts of the blending and pasting process.
Found a triangle in Russia. Must be a downed stealth fighter plane. Lost civilizations, hidden air bases, alien billboards saying “land here.”
Of course they are, what else could they be? Is it possible? Well, is it possible? Repeat until a gullible audience says, well maybe.
Of course it is. What else could they be? It is like the Alex Jones of TV.
What irritates me to no end is when these type of shows come back from commercial break, they spend five minutes repeating what they said before the commercial … like the average viewer would forget everything they said just ten minutes ago … it’s like The Clan of the Cave Bear of television …
One, it means they don’t have to write as much material. Two, they’re taking into account their typical viewer with the memory of a goldfish.
The “Sci-Fi” channel had to change their name because they NEVER SHOWED ANY EFFING SCIENCE FICTION.
Now, the are called SyFy and they can show whatever dungeons and dragons and witches and ghosts and hobbits and fairies and CHTHUHUHUHLUHHHH they effing want, because I WON’T WATCH IT!
(Just my opinion, your mileage may vary.)
Bitter? Who me?
I accept your second point but as far as your first point, you may well be assuming any of it is written. Do you know how expensive Union script writers cost?
I’ve only missed maybe 5 Formula One races in the last 30 years! I see it as a challenge. 
And Comedy Central ain’t too bad.
And three: they must take into account their twenty minute commercial breaks.
I miss ESPN’s sports programming since I cut my cord … I’ll admit that … but I’m glad to be rid of all the others, happy they’re never part of my life.
I’m kinda proud that there’s only nine other channels I never watch.
History (in NZ) is currently showing a Medieval Month which I have to say is very good. I think it includes The Vikings but haven’t checked them out. There was a marvelous documentary on a few nights ago about the rise of the English monasteries.
I do agree however that the “intelligent” channels have slid into the mists of conspiracies and ankledeep knowledge. I tend to glide through them of an evening in the vague hope of finding a gem - which happens from time to time.
It’s been said before, but I miss
When there was a Biography Channel that ran biographies
When The Learning Channel had educatrional stuff on it. Same for The Discovery Channel
When SyFy was SciFi and actually ran Science Fiction, and not wrestling (although they have occasional bursts of Good Stuff. And I’ll even take the crappy monster movies)
It’s getting so that any dork with a half-baked theory can get on the History Channel.
True, though I worry about the amount of Koch money PBS is getting via David Koch. Interestingly, quality need not be expensive. Here in Ontario a good example of quality public television is TV Ontario, which gets by on an annual budget of only around $65 million, the great majority coming from the provincial government. And that includes a network of digital HD transmitters, so schools and homes that have cut the cable can get it free. As an interesting contrast, the current season of Game of Thrones reportedly cost $10 million per episode, totaling $100 million for Season 6 alone.
This happened: I was watching, I think, The Discovery Channel where there was a doc that talked about the mysterious missing island. After much investigation and history and stuff, it was found out that the island started as map making mistake waaay back in the 1400s. Probably, at one point during the colonial period, there may have been one of those pumice islands in the vicinity that was spotted by ships, continuing the incorrect cartology. So, there never was an island there.
And then I turned to The Science Channel right after and What in The World came to the conclusion that ‘no one knows how an island disappears’.
At least MTV has music again, although it’s on MTV Live (fka Palladia).
There isn’t one.
Until the Pure Math Channel can draw an audience, anything else is pure propaganda and mental masterbation.
Numbers don’t lie (until one finds applied statistics, of course).
2 + 2 = 4 (base 10) is the last, uncorrupted space.
Math, geometry, native American affairs, and the like are covered here.
You once again forgot to fill the jars with ether, didn’t you? Or you huffed it all- again.
I am patiently waiting for a 24/7 Sharknado Channel.
The various educational channels on YouTube. Crash Course, Mental Floss, Extra History (part of Extra Credits), Vsauce, CGP Gray, ViHart, Numberphile, and Sixty Symbols are the ones that come to the top of my head right now.