They had a show on the other day about Battle of Leyte Gulf, and sometimes they’ll show “Wild West Tech”. But that’s it.
History International is still good, but I can only watch that in the living room. (That’s the only place we have digital.)
Somebody remind me to go all medieval on those gormless twits.
Um, what is Ghost Hunters?
There ya go. Many of these outlets have shoved off much of their content-driven material up to the Digital-Cable channels, leaving their Basic-Cable flagships to join the race to the bottom. So you can still find WW2… in Discovery’s “Military Channel”; and you can still find music… in “VH1 Classics”, and so forth.
You might want to spell it right, then. Rebuttal.
It was a funny show. They had at least one comedian who hosted it.
Almost all of the history documentaries I record on my Tivo come from either History International or the Military Channel. Ax Men can kiss my ass.
Just
gotta say I loves me some Band of Brothers and watched most of it.
I spent part of my holiday afternoon watching some interesting “real history” British produced stuff on History Channel International. Was fun. Haven’t tuned my cable box to History Channel in a long while…
Back in the 80s, MTV used to play music videos.
The channels need marketers to keep running. Nowadays marketers mostly market to each other, not to any actual consumer - by the time any product reaches the consumer, most of his freedom of choice has been taken away. He can only choose from the options marketers deem most profitable, meaning those most like what other marketers choose.
Amazing, isn’t it? After all this revolution in communications, market research and data gathering, there is still only one way to keep the lights on and the paychecks coming through: keep selling the same old shit in a different bag. Try anything else and the industry instantly moves to crush the threat.
Don’t forget Bravo, another channel that used to be about something. And Headline News. And now, SciFi. That’s the real reason for the name change to SyFy.
IMDB link. It’s a “reality” show on SciFi or whatever they call the channel today, where people investigate ghosts.
SYFY :rolleyes:
http://www.syfy.com/press.html
Of course I get the idea, now you will not only have the chance to show “Chariots of the gods” :mad: but also be able to show “Chariots of fire” :dubious:
Try ta make me give rebuttle
I say No, No, NO…
And… RE: Buttle: Better check your receipt
Have you ever posted a photo online, only to have someone post a comment that what you thought were dust specks illuminated by the flash are really “orbs”, and then a dozen people show up to point out all the reflections and shadows and such lurking in your photo? Ghost Hunters is 30 minutes (or is it an hour?) of that, on-location with video cameras, infrared, tape recorders, and laptops. On the plus side, they do visit a lot of older/abandoned locations; I’ll admit that I’ve watched a few times due to my interest in urban/abandoned exploration.
I miss the show ‘Military Blunders’. It was really cool to see strategies in history that went awry, either through bad luck, incompetence, or ego. And one of my favorite things about it was the suspensful music they’d play in the background.
Presently I do like Man/Moment/Machine (is that on history channel? I flip between history channel and TLC) and Dogfights. The series on the USS Enterprise was also cool.
Mail Call!!! I loved that show! R. Lee Ermey rocks.
History’s Mysteries was often a good one – such as what happened to Jimmy Hoffa, or the Princes in the Tower (Edward V and his brother, Richard, Duke of York).
Fun show, but R. Lee’s career was kinda over once they humanized him and had him answering letters and joking around. I liked him better as the dark priest of the warrior culture.
Turner Classic Movies showed war movies yesterday.
Every time. Every time I say I’m only going to watch Sargeant York until the turkey shoot scene. Then it’s the rifle range scene. Before you know it he’s getting every medal known to man.
StG
There was a new cartoon announced in Cartoon Network’s new lineup. Not surprisingly, it is yet another incarnation of Scooby-Doo. (I think there might be something involving the NBA, but I forget if it was a cartoon or live-action.)