TV "science" shows

[frogmarch]

I've found this to be true. (I consider engineering to be science, though.)

[valerief]

1. Hey, where are the war show pie pieces? Doesn't the History Channel do war anymore?

Amazing what crap is on these channels. I guess when you're served shit, you eat shit. No one orders shit.

[frogmarch]

2. I too wonder why war shows isn't on there.

For the longest time I thought of the History Channel as the Hitler Channel - All Hitler, All The Time.

[valerief]

3. Bwah! Yeah, me, too. Propagating Hitler Love throughout Merka.

Looks like it worked, based on the growth of the TP Klan.

[frogmarch]

10. Speaking of the TP Klan,

yesterday there was a listing on one of those channels for a show about the history of the TP. I didn't watch it, so I don't know if it dissed, or complimented, the TP.

[Vashta Nerada]

4. It quit being the Hitler Channel about three or four years ago.

Everything has been replaced with aliens and pseudo-science.

[frogmarch]

8. I've noticed that aliens are

all the rage now. Last night I saw a listing on one of those channels for a show about the very real possibility that some heads of world governments are aliens. gah!

[csziggy]

11. They gave their war and Hitler shows to The Military Channel

Now that channel is filled with those old History Channel shows.

[lastlib]

5. Makes me long for a "Shows About Junk" channel.....

that might actually do a SCIENCE or HISTORY program.....!

[frogmarch]

9. haha! Now

there's an idea!

[jakeXT]

6. Isn't Deadliest Catch on Discovery and not on History ?

Or is it included in shows about Alaska and History has a different show about a profession on a boat ?

[frogmarch]

7. I just googled it, and yes,

it's on Discovery. Maybe History does have a show about a profession on a boat. Or did. I'll try to find out.

[csziggy]

12. Where are all the alien shows? Or are those lumped under "junk"? n/t

[frogmarch]

13. I think the image might be

a couple of years old, but surely you're not serious in suggesting alien shows might be lumped in with junk!

[csziggy]

14. I'd use a different four letter word to characterize alien shows!

But a lot of what those channels are showing is stuff that should be thrown out = junk.

[frogmarch]

15. You are so right! nt

[Frank Cannon]

16. Remember when there wasn't one, but TWO popular shows...

on regular TV (not cable) that were 100% about science? I'm thinking, of course, of Bill Nye the Science Guy and Beakman's World.

Sad, fucked-up times we live in.

I am looking forward to the new Cosmos series with Neil DeGrasse Tyson that shows up next year on, of all channels, FOX. Maybe that can help pull us out of this depressing slump.

[frogmarch]

17. I remember Bill Nye the Science Guy. I guess

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shows like that aren't flashy enough for a lot of today's viewers - or something.

I like Neil DeGrasse Tyson very much and I'm glad he'll be doing a new Cosmos series! Too bad about it being on FOX, but maybe it'll smarten up some 'baggers.

Edited to make "are" into "aren't," which is what I'd meant to write in the first place.