the Discovery channels need to stop...

[evirus]

stop airing all the crap they currently do;

Discovery(main): has the friggen American {vehical} shows which are either extremly boring or jumped the shark long ago. which brings me to my other annoyance which is the shark shows they seem to put on one week a month every season(weather season)

Discovery Health: come on why is it that the only non child birth shows are showen at night time after 8pm? at least the interesting ones i mean.

Discovery Times: if this isn't a merger of fox news and discovery i dont know what is, all i ever see on this channel is either terrorism documentaries or "the maricals of jesus" crap

and don't get me start with the long annoying "lets all discover" commercial!

[AlienGirl]

1. They need more actual science shows, and so does TLC

And the History channel should show more history and less religion.

Just my opinion...

Tucker

[evirus]

3. i remember back when TLC was...

The Learning Channel, not The Lengthy Construction

[malmapus]

4. Seems everytime I hit History it's something about Rome

Not that I don't have an interest in the Romans but still, there were other civilizations and historical evernts too heh.

[rockymountaindem]

8. Other people say it's all about Hitler

I don't think the problem with the History channel is timeframes, but topic areas. Once up here in Canada I saw an amazing documentary on the origin of the London sewer system. Now, that might not sound so great, but I thought it was pretty cool from engineering, epidemiological and social perspectives. That kind of thing would never get on the History Channel in the US. While I'm a big fan of documentaries on war, I'd also like to see some other things.

I might be overly harsh here, though. The History Channel has its share of engineering programs, but I'd still like to see more social history.

[evirus]

11. with the history channel its either; war, rome, or knights templar

[BigMcLargehuge]

22. Actually, that aired a couple of times on The History Channel in the US

I've seen it. It's also aired on the other History Channel, "History International" several times.

[malmapus]

25. Him too lol

Seems all the Third Reich programs are on at a certain time, guess I've figured out when to flip past it for all the Roman stuff heh.

You're right though on some of the gems, I remember a program covering everything that lies underneath Istambul from all of it's history.

[XemaSab]

2. .

[Oeditpus Rex]

5. Discovery Wings!

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:




Wish I could get it. x(

[GoddessOfGuinness]

7. Oh god.

Mr GoG used to watch Wings marathons on Discovery. Hours on end of male macho electric guitar solos accompanying bland descriptions of jets forced me to leave the house or suffer a 2-day migraine. He was in heaven, though. :rofl:

[evirus]

9. i like the jets shows

but sadly i know what you mean... but luckily its better then the electric guitar solos used as background music when a bike is being put to gether, in normal time not like time lapsed or anything

[GoddessOfGuinness]

13. I can't deal with the disfunctional bike-building family either...

:puke:

[Oeditpus Rex]

10. Jets, feh

I watch the ones with real airplanes — the kind with props and machine guns. :thumbsup:

[evirus]

12. oh i like prop planes

i have the game battlefield 1942, between the orignal game with prop planes and the fan made "desert combat" with jets and modern tech, i always go for the orignal, mustangs and zeros all the way

[TheMightyFavog]

20. BF:1942

I used to play the Forgotten Hope Mod. That added a whole lot of cool stuff.

Ahh, memories of going around being a bazooka ninja, taking out German Tanks, camping out in church steeples with the sniper rifle. ahhhh..... :)

[GoddessOfGuinness]

14. I can still hear the music...

DUHN-DUHN-DUHN-DUHN-DUHN-DUHN-DUHN-DUHN-
DUHN-DUHN-DUHN-DUHN-DUHN-DUHN-DUHN-DUHN-
DUHN-DUHN-DUHN-DUHN-DUHN-DUHN-DUHN-DUHN-
DUHN-DUHN-DUHN-DUHN-DUHN-DUHN-DUHN-DUHN-

[Oeditpus Rex]

16. Meh

Only battle music we had in '44 was what we sang ourselves. And if you sang longer than about 10 seconds, the Cap would holler at you to quit messin' around on the interphone.

[Vidar]

18. Discovery Wings has morphed into the Military Channel

[BigMcLargehuge]

23. It's "The Military Channel" now

which is pretty good if you like military documentaries, as I do.

The First World War is a fantastic multi-part doc.
Escape to the Legion is a great "reality" show where a dozen guys spend a month in brutal French Foreign Legion basic training.

They've also been showing the same two Lafayette Escadrille documentaries lately, no doubt to capitalize on "Flyboys" but I don't care that I've seen them a dozen times each, I still watch them everytime they are on.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

6. Discovery used to be great...

Then they got caught up in the great dumbing down of Amurrica.

[WCGreen]

15. The Times is the NYT...

And they haven't been able to keep up with the demand for new material...

Too many channels and not enough material...

But nothing like Mysteries of the Bible to put me right back to sleep on a sunday morning...

[ashling]

17. I can remember when

you could turn on the Discovery Channel just about any time of the day or night

and watch this little Dung beatle roll this piece of shit up the hill ....




I sort of miss that lttle guy .......





I think he is with Fox News now .....



writes e-mails for Chris Wallace


:rofl:

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

19. I must say, I do enjoy Mythbusters though

[evirus]

21. yah least that show is worth watching

even though the announcer makes a lot of bad puns

[BigMcLargehuge]

24. The Discovery Channel only has three things going for it -

CGI Dinosaur Shows (of which there aren't near enough) and Shark Week (though it's losing its luster with crap like Mythbusters Shark Week and Anatomy of a Shark Bite) and Dirty Jobs, which is both informative and funny (besides, who doesn't love watching a former opera singer get assaulted by cockroaches?).

The rest of their crap, and I mean CRAP, is virtually unwatchable. The vast majorty of metalfab shows bore me senseless, motorcycles, cars, etc... who gives a shit, really? They've also recently taken to cutting up and renaming their CGI dinosaur shows, or reusing the graphics from those shows in other programs. The US edit of Walking with Dinosaurs is awful enough (get the original BBC production to see about 40 minutes more of good CGI monsters) but to cut them up and repackage them is just piss poor awful.

The Learning Channel is dead to me now. I can't believe they show, literally, home repair and fucking "makeover" shows ALL DAY/ALL NIGHT LONG! I've learned one thing, whoever programs The Learning Channel needs to be stopped. And whoever green-lighted the "clean your house you slob" shows should be pressganged onto a Russian rocket and fired into the sun. CLEAN YOUR FUCKING HOUSE!!!!!!

Discovery Times is a mix of stuff from The Discovery Channel and The New York Times, most of their stuff is crap, but they do occasionally do a good show on white supremacists and hate rock though.

Discovery Science is a great place to watch Cosmos reruns, and that's it. The rest of their programming is leftover from old Discovery Channel stuff with the occasional new short science show thrown in. But I can't deal with advertisements for technology that masquerades as a half hour news magazine.

Discovery Health is the baby birthing/emergency room show. Anyone who's been through either doesn't want to watch it on TV. I've been through both and believe me, being there for real was plenty thank you very much.

[hedgehog]

26. What I really hate are the suposed "history" shows on any channel

The ones where you spend an hour wading through 28 minutes of commercial only to be presented with sensational pseudo-facts often posed as unanswered questions:" Did King Arthur live in southern Wales, and did Merlin develop an atomic bomb?"