I hate the history channel

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The history channel used to be interesting, shows about great president and wars, and the beginning of America. Now, it's either redneck shows of creole people hunting alligators, or rednecks in Las Vegas pawning things. I haven't seen a culturally relevant show on it in years, either super redneck stuff, or incredibly bizarre theories of how the aliens built ancient Rome. Is it normal I miss my history? :(

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  • Captain_Kegstand
    11 years ago

    History channel went the same way as MTV. When was the last time you saw music on "music television"? All it is now is girls that get knocked up in middle school, and orange douche bags!

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  • Avant-Garde
    11 years ago

    The only interesting show is Ancient Aliens. The rest is stupid trash.

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    • capcrunch6
      11 years ago

      Ancient Aliens is crap, like those stupid 2012 shows.

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      • Avant-Garde
        11 years ago

        It is boring and there are better ways to learn about the universe. I don't pay much attention to the 2012 theories anymore.

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    • wigsplitz
      11 years ago

      You're joking, right? Ancient Aliens is garbage for idiots who will believe anything. Oh, it's YOU, so you're not joking.

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      • Avant-Garde
        11 years ago

        I've only seen twigs and berries of it. It certainly sounds better than the rest of the shit on there:P

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  • jellokatt
    11 years ago

    discovery channel did the same freaking thing. i don't bother with tv anymore - there are lots of good, free documentaries online, just do a google video search for something you're interested in, and filter it to 20+ minutes

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  • pixie_dust
    9 years ago

    Ancient aliens is actually pretty informative, although not perfect. It has a lot of information that in the past had not been disclosed to the public at large. Such as evidence of power tools, like proof of it, in ancient civilizations. Where you can look at such things not thru the blinders of religion, but from an anthropological perspective which can take away the 'rose colored glasses' so to speak. They do have some bizarre theories, but it's best to have an open mind, really.

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  • BrendioEEE
    11 years ago

    I hate this guy talking shit about ancient aliens. Its a good show ! Especially compared to all the other crap.

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  • capcrunch6
    11 years ago

    The History Channel: Where the truth is history.

    (south park)

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  • Finding_Peace_In_A_Mad_World
    11 years ago

    Same here! I used to love watching all of those great shows and documentaries, now they're just stupid irrelevant crap. Kind of like MTV, who doesn't even have any shows relating to music anymore. I wish we had the old shows back!

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  • jondoerandom
    11 years ago

    90% of the shows on that channel don't have anything to do with history anymore. They're fighting for good raitings, hence all this crap shows. Watch the southpark episode -they make fun of history channel exactly about that.

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  • NotFloydzie
    11 years ago

    I only watch their documentaries. But I do agree with you, there are too many shows now there that aren't about history at all.

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  • dappled
    11 years ago

    I don't know how much of the BBC's content makes it to other countries but our history output is often top class (I should know, I watch nearly all of it). There might be a way you could get to see our minority channels (sadly, people don't all enjoy history as much as we do so I can't see it being a major export). However, there's plenty that must be available on DVD. I occasionally buy DVDs of BBC history series, particularly if they've been exceptionally good.

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    • wigsplitz
      11 years ago

      We have a channel called BBC America, and PBS runs BBC news and a lot of other British programs. I'm not sure if we get any other channels from over there, and I don't watch BBC America much, honestly the only show I watch on there is the one with Gordon Ramsay, they play both the British show and the American show 'Kitchen Nightmares'. The difference between the shows is amazing considering it's the same guy and the same exact concept. On the British one, they don't bleep out 'shit'...I guess we're too innocent to hear the word 'shit' on our Kitchen Nightmares.

      The only reason I don't watch that channel more is because I forget it's even there. I have satellite TV and have a ridiculous number of channels (only watch a handful of them!!) and that one is up in the high numbers which I just never check. I'll make a point to check it out next time I'm looking around on the TV.

      Edit: I watch Top Gear too, that's a good show. We have an American one too, again very different but a lot of the same ideas and concept. I like the American one more just because I can relate to it more, they do crazy shit that you can only do in America with the terrain and what we do with cars and all!!

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      • dappled
        11 years ago

        Yes, you're getting content from other channels. Kitchen Nightmares is a Channel 4 thing (our best channel outside of the BBC). We've gone from four channels to four hundred and I can't see why. Most of them are just running films that nobody wants to watch or infomercials of a man demonstrating a mop. All the quality has gone and it's just about money.

        I'm amazed they bleep out "shit" there. Everyone who has visited has said American TV is very conservative but I thought it may have changed. If I hear "cunt" on TV in the evening, I don't even register it. I'd only be surprised if it was on kid's TV or the news.

        I watch Top Gear too (despite never having driven, but then you already know I love cars). I've seen the American version too but it doesn't appeal to me as much. I guess it really did need remaking for your market. The weird thing is that I always think of the Americans and British as similar and yet you often remake our TV and most of the rest of the world watches it as it is.

        Having said that, we (very loosely) remade Friends, albeit a much more adult version of Friends.

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  • wigsplitz
    11 years ago

    I like Pawn Stars, I think it's relevant because most of the items they feature are historical, antiques, art, or significant modern history. It's sort of like a more fun and more diverse Antiques Roadshow.

    I agree about many of the other shows, though. I HATE their armageddon shows, Nostradamus crap, Brad Meltzer's Decoded, Ancient Aliens...all that stuff is such crap. They of all people should have a duty to report things accurately but the information in those shows is so skewed and is hardly true at all, they fit things to whatever agenda they have.

    You have to keep in mind that some of their newer shows are history in the making though. History IS made every day, some of the shows are just documenting history being made. There's also recent history that's interesting, like Modern Marvels.

    They want viewers so they had to diversify, I think most of it's good, just those stupid shows like Ancient Aliens (uggh, how fucking dumb) and of course the whole 2012 Apocalypse crap they run often, it's just to get viewers. I don't get why they do the gator hunting show though, seriously, what IS that?

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    • iEatZombies_
      11 years ago

      Ancient Aliens is a lot more historical than Ice Road Truckers and Axe Men.

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      • wigsplitz
        11 years ago

        Ancient Aliens is RETARDED. At least those shows are good. It's called MODERN HISTORY or history in the making. They're documenting things that will go down in history. That's how we get history books and crap, someone's documenting shit. Now we have to guess at a lot of historical happenings because they didn't document it as well as we do now (or more recently, rather). It will benefit our kid's kids and beyond. Those shows aren't uninformative, they show why thy're doing what they're doing, how, how it's different (or the same) now, and shit like that.

        Ax Men-the Swamp Man is pulling logs out of the water that sunk from a couple-hundred year old log raft....for example. Then there's teams that use horses and oxen for logging, and no machinery. It's relevant.

        Ice Road Truckers, it shows modern ways of transporting goods, and also dips into the oil industry. That WILL be history one day.

        Ancient Aliens is a JOKE, all they do is say how aliens had to have built shit because the people back then were too stupid. Yeah, OK. Then they skew facts to make it fir their alien agenda. It's all bunk.

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        • iEatZombies_
          11 years ago

          Those shows you speak of do not depict history. If there were a "History in the Making" channel, they would be great candidates- but that's not our current history. History in the making is called 'the present'. Recording information in present day is very important, but it's not history. It's current.
          Only when they pull these hundred year old logs out of the water is it relevant to history. Otherwise, it's useless in terms of history.

          I agree that some people who push out their theories on Ancient Aliens are quacks- however, those theories are pointed out strictly as theories -not facts- by the narrators, and they are important in depicting possible historical outcomes. More importantly, the objects and information themselves are historical and are therefore perfect for the History Channel.
          Much of what we see as history, even recent, is misconstrued. We need the discussion of events to keep flowing, no matter how ridiculous the parties are.

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          • wigsplitz
            11 years ago

            That's been their tagline for the past couple years 'History: Made Every Day'. What's shown today was taped months or years ago so technically it IS history. Recent history, but still history and will be historically relevant.

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            • iEatZombies_
              11 years ago

              Yes, I'm aware of the slogan. I think it's absurd. If that is the point of the channel, they might as well record me pooping tomorrow morning and air it the next day as an important part of history. Me pooping tomorrow will technically become history the next day, but I wouldn't recommend it for a history professor's teaching curriculum.

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    • tellmeimwrong
      11 years ago

      That's all they show now is gator hunting, and chopping trees with axes. Where's the American Revolution? Where's world war two? Where's the war in Iraq and Afghanistan? Where's autobiographies of FDR and john Adams? I'm writing them a letter, they're dumbing down our youth. How are some southerners who can't even speak complete sentences more important than Ulysses S. Grant? So annoying.

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      • wigsplitz
        11 years ago

        They play more of those kinds of shows on H2 (History 2), plus there's the Military Channel, Military History, etc. There's pretty much 2 huge networks that own a lot of other channels....A&E and Discovery. They diversified and specialized, and have so many different channels for more specific types of shows. The more popular and everyday crap is what they put on the main channels like A&E, Discovery and History. Then all the more specialized stuff and less popular shows, they put on their specialized channels. A&E used to run a show called Biography, but they even specialized that into it's own channel called Bio.

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