Bizarre TLC shows

[valerief]

I just looked to see what was on TV tonight, and saw on TLC there's a show named "My Son's Face Won't Stop Growing." It's followed by "My Baby's Got an Extra Head."

Who, over the age of 12, watches this shit?

[shenmue]

1. Yipes

[MADem]

2. Well, since they've gotten all the

'Touching Little Children' (Honey Boo Boo's pervy stepfather; that Duggar molester) abusers off the air, I guess they're going for a different market.

I heard one person opine--and there's something to this, I think--that TLC is a "PC" freak show. Back in the old days, circuses had tents where they'd put people with physical deformities or unusual conditions, and they'd sell tickets for people to gawk at them. Now, instead of filing by them passively and staring at them, they're given a TLC show and you can gawk from the comfort of your own barcolounger. It's still exploitation, but it's better-compensated exploitation, I guess.

[icymist]

3. I wonder what happened to learning things?

Isn't that what TLC stands for? The Learning Channel?

[MADem]

4. The Ludicrous Channel! nt

[Lydia Leftcoast]

5. It hasn't been The Learning Channel since A&E was Arts and Entertainment

and Bravo was foreign films.

[valerief]

7. Or the History Channel was about history instead of UFOs and Jesus. nt

[lpbk2713]

6. I used to watch when it really was the "Learning" channel.

But I don't think I have tuned in to it for years.

It seems to be Tabloid TV now.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

8. The fate of these channels eventually persuaded me to drop cable

I didn't want to contribute any money to the dumbing down of America.

[TexasBushwhacker]

9. It was supposed to be the cable version of PBS

Without "public" or government support, they had to have programing that would attract viewers, sell advertising dollars and get good payments from the cable and satellite providers. They went broke! So they evolved into the freakshow network.