I used to love discovery, but now any time I turn on the channel, literally at any time of the day, deadliest catch seems to be on. It has to make up 50% of their programming. Every once in awhile they'll throw on an episode of MvW but other than that, its all deadliest catch.
When did discovery channel become deadliest catch channel?
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Demon-Xanth
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Don't worry, Fox has said they're going to up the Discovery channel by having a logging truck drive across an ice flow in the Bearing Sea while the driver eats a lobster.
Capt Caveman
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Yeah, they definitely play that show too much. If there going to overplay a show, it should 'Dirty Jobs'. Wait, new episode tonight. Woot!
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I've noticed the same thing. A lot of deadliest catch on lately. MvW too, but I find that more interesting anyway. Nothing like watching a guy eat a live frog in HD. :thumbsup:
I've noticed the same thing. A lot of deadliest catch on lately. MvW too, but I find that more interesting anyway. Nothing like watching a guy eat a live frog in HD. :thumbsup:
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youve seen one miserable fisherman youve seen them all. i dont understand why they have this tv show.
GagHalfrunt
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The Discovery channel is a joke. It used to be about actual science. Then it turned into the rednecks welding channel and now it's the fishing channel.
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Jeff7
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I don't know, but I'm sick of it.
Their shows keep sounding more and more like shitty FOX programming - always everything is about tension, fighting, and people yelling at each other.
How It's Made, Dirty Jobs, and Mythbusters: That's about all I will watch on Discovery anymore.
Their "How'd They Do It" show is irritating, done like it's made for elementary school students, and they say "How'd they do it?" about 50x per episode. "How It's Made" is bad enough with their terribly forced lame puns.
Extreme Engineering - they try to hard to be "extreme" with bad guitar noise and a host that tries to sound "extreme." I'd rather listen to Gandhi as a WWF commentator, or Mother Theresa as a drill instructor.
And during the day they have stupid "haunting" shows on. :roll:
I thought that idiocy was under the jurisdiction of TLC.
If they ever do a "pay-per-channel" thing, I might get Cartoon Network (for Robot Chicken) and Science Channel, assuming that its programming is directed at an age group higher than 5-10, like Discovery Channel seems to be working on.
Their shows keep sounding more and more like shitty FOX programming - always everything is about tension, fighting, and people yelling at each other.
How It's Made, Dirty Jobs, and Mythbusters: That's about all I will watch on Discovery anymore.
Their "How'd They Do It" show is irritating, done like it's made for elementary school students, and they say "How'd they do it?" about 50x per episode. "How It's Made" is bad enough with their terribly forced lame puns.
Extreme Engineering - they try to hard to be "extreme" with bad guitar noise and a host that tries to sound "extreme." I'd rather listen to Gandhi as a WWF commentator, or Mother Theresa as a drill instructor.
And during the day they have stupid "haunting" shows on. :roll:
I thought that idiocy was under the jurisdiction of TLC.
If they ever do a "pay-per-channel" thing, I might get Cartoon Network (for Robot Chicken) and Science Channel, assuming that its programming is directed at an age group higher than 5-10, like Discovery Channel seems to be working on.
ConstipatedVigilante
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Ugh, How It's Made is the driest, most boring show ever. The guy who narrates it can put me to sleep in no time. There really aren't any Steve Irwin - style shows on Discovery anymore though - but I guess that's what Animal Planet is for.
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Jeff7
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I liked Brooks Moore. Now they have some younger guy doing the show; I find him irritating.
I also love watching efficient automation at work.
But then, I also liked documentaries back when that's what they were: They told you about something happening in the world.
Now everything's jazzed up to appeal to people who don't watch something unless it has explosions, turmoil, and music/noise that causes spontaneous neuron suicide.
Like this "When We Left Earth" show. It's interesting to see the old video footage, but good god, I feel like strangling the producer and director of that show. Every freaking thing is done up with tense dun-dun-DUUNNNNNNN music, everything's about tension, conflict, etc etc. And then every show ends with a nice, ego-stroking uplifting note.
Just make it easy: Shoot yourself in the foot, bleed profusely on the way to the hospital, and then get a blowjob from a nurse. You get the pain, the tension, and the happy ending.
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