I have always like Modern Marvels. So much better than the Nazi/Martian slash fiction the History channel usually shows.
But I just flipped past MM and saw they are doing a Start-to finish episode.(Which kind of feels like it is being floated as a new direction to the series.
But it is totally a rip-off of How it’s Made, which I Also love(anybody else watch the 2 week marathon they had on Science channel a couple months ago, that was cool :)).
However, How it’s made didn’t seem to make it on the A line-up for Discovery Channel. It got relegated to the Science channel which I think is their “C” channel.
Modern Marvels is one of the mainstay big boys of the informational TV worlds. They get access to NASA and Air Force one and stuff that is restricted, because of their cache.
As someone who has peripherally been associated with TV projects(all failures) it makes me Half-pissed and half-amused when the big guys rip off the little guys.
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How did it get formatted so annoyingly, I didn’t write it in Bullet point fashion.