You get Ice Road truckers on the history channel over there? Weird.
In Aust. it is broadcast on Fox8, which is the kind of a ‘general entertainment’ type channel.
I must admit I actually enjoyed the show at first, it was really interesting finding out about the process and situation. Of course 3-4 episodes in and the interesting stuff is fading fast, and is replaced by the usual fly on the wall, yawn inducing, reality show stuff now.
I saw a show with the same title on On Demand a couple of months ago. It could be a totally different show because I rarely remember what the original channels are, when watching On Demand. Anyway, it was mostly about the original family that lived in the house, and was murdered by their son / brother. I really enjoyed it, because in both the movies and the book they just kind of glossed over the actual history of the house. We’re just told some guy went nuts and killed his family. I think alot of people assume that part was invented by the Lutzes also.
“Not only did Nostradamus forget about the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition, he misspelled ‘Edsel.’”
Oh, come on. They give plenty of time to bigfoot and loch ness monster debunkers.
Oh good heaven, THAT’s what Moon Unit was blathering on about.
My lovely daughter - why, by the way, tests out as GIFTED - swallows anything she sees on TV. Hook, line, and sinker. And unfortunately she saw some of the Nostradamus show. She was babbling about the 9/11 thing (New City etc.) and I tried telling her that had been made up wholesale. She was not having any of it.
IF we were to tell her we were, say, moving to Seattle she’d die of terror. Because, you see, sometime in the next three years Seattle will be destroyed by a tsunami. Not “may”. WILL. Because she saw it on Discovery Channel or something of the sort. :smack:
Unfortunately, lots of people have similar critical-thinking skills.
Yes, oddly no one has ever come forth with a Nose-tard-doomus “prediction” that actually, you know- predicted anything in the future. It’s all lame-ass explanations of how the insane gibberish can be twisted to explain something that has already happened.
Really, nothing has even gotten close. The “Hister” “prediction?”:
:dubious:
"Beasts ferocious with hunger will cross the rivers,
The greater part of the battlefield will be against Hister.
Into a cage of iron will the great one be drawn,
When the child of Germany observes nothing. "
No “Beasts ferocious”. No “iron cage”. No “child of Germany” (Hitler was Austrian, remember?). All we have is the “Hister/Hitler” coincidence, and even there:
"In Nostradamus’ time, for example, “Hister” referred to a geographical region near the Danube river."
None of Noseys “predictions” have even been used to correctly predict soemthing that will happen. Which is the whole idea of “predictions”, isn’t it?
I didn’t mind the Hitler channel when it was new stuff to me, but doesn’t somebody realize that the 100th anniversary of WWI is closing in fast. As impressive as WWII is, it seems to me that WWI and its resolution had a greater effect on current world politics than anything. Yet it is phenomenally ignored by everyone.
This is one of the reasons the internet has replaced TV (at least for me, pre-conditioned for this by growing up up with only three televisions stations but a local Carnegie library full of books). Probably at the loss to me of televison as a place where we all “commune and commemorate.”
Paradoxically, one of the best WWI things I’ve found on the internet was a BBC TV show that had the “commune and commemorate” effect on Britain when it was first broadcast in 1964. I found it on YouTube searching for “Great War,” in 26 episodes, chopped into 5 “chunks” each for the YouTube time limit. You won’t see it on the History Channel; or “World War One” made by CBS also in 1964. because they’re in black and white..
The History Channel did do a short series using all the rare color WWI footage they could string together, and a “World War One Tech” episode. But the nine million soldiers killed between 1914 and 1918 all suffer from the same problem that a lot of non-Natalee Holloway murder victims have: inadequate photogenics.
Hey, at least they’re not making contestant based reality shows (Dancing with the Dictators)
…but the jury is still out regarding the “Law a & Order: History” idea being passed around.
A major network picked it up. It’s called Cold Case.
Actually, my understanding is that Ted Turner’s company rubbed their crayons all over it and that the clips were all originally in black and white.