Fuck you History channel

[osirus2020]

For the past 9 years of my life, I have put my faith in you to offer the best in educational entertainment in the form of documentaries and all things good (of that nature).

Unfortunately, every time I try to watch the history channel, it's always some bogus reality television bullshit. I usually only watch television at night, probably around 9pm to 11pm. Instead of having decent shows, it's all fucking reality television. Ice road truckers, axe men, they both suck balls. I don't care how daunting a task it may be, it's fucking dumb. Let Fox and all the other channels pay attention to pop culture, History channel is not the place. They aren't even riveting. The show is all about people doing boring shit, with tense sounding music to make it appear to be really dangerous.

The show that's really getting on my fucking nerves is "pawn stars". It's a show about some big time pawn shop run by some ignorant douchebags who couldn't run a fucking Toyota properly.

I don't really like watching shows that don't offer me much of anything. Sitcoms are alright every once in a while, but for the most part television programming is all shit. I will usually watch the military channel, but the programming is sporadic, really hit or miss.

It really, really sucks when I log off the computer at 9:30 to watch something intellegent, just to find 300 channels of nothing. Even the free on demand is absolute shit. They always advertise about having thousands of hours of free programming, but it's also bullshit. The on demand crap the have is simply programming for the sake of saying they have free programming.

ahh just fuck it.

[Bearsy]

This is relevant to my interests

[msicidron]

It's a show about some big time pawn shop run by some ignorant douchebags who couldn't run a fucking Toyota properly.

and thats saying something! seriously great cars....

but yeah maybe if you aren't satisfied with the programming on television you could try doing something else for entertainment. the cool people have no time to be watching tv from 9 to 11........

[kitch]

the History Channel has offered very little in the way of History for the past 10 years at least.

[verklingen]

i'm pretty fed up with what i used to consider documentary stations altogether. i can never find a good, much less interesting to watch. it's all about fishing, architecture or bible prophecy. . . yech

[kitch]

PBS is where it's at, followed by NAT GEO.

[©antSEEme]

word on the nat geo channel, i also like discovery. the universe and how the earth was made is the best things going for the history channel right now. occasionally they play hooked, which i always watch. great show. i saw a show called hippies which was really good recently, talking about the summer of love and what happened after. other than that, and the occasional early morning war/nazi/civil rights docs, pure crap on history channel.

[osirus2020]

PBS is where it's at, followed by NAT GEO.

I'll have to check out PBS, but Nat Geo is usually the third channel I check after History and Military. I find that Nat Geo is also usually hit or miss.

but yeah maybe if you aren't satisfied with the programming on television you could try doing something else for entertainment. the cool people have no time to be watching tv from 9 to 11........

Yeah I actually trimmed my nails and brushed my teeth instead. Because I still live at home with the rents, It's hard to do too much later at night that doesn't make noise.

I'm going to have to start reading I guess. Plenty of good war books.

[turmaline]

I'm quite sure that if "we" the people reinvented the reality show historically wise speaking...we could make it exciting again?


TONIGHT!! "middle class house wife fights man with the iron teeth all for the sake of...blah, blah, historical rederick....

we could make history.

[№1]

Get better cable...


History International.


Like it was back then.


Heres whats on tonight!

Battle Stations
Huey Helicopter: Air Armada.
The Vietnam War was the Huey war--a brutal war, where the lethal Huey gunship wreaked havoc on the Viet Cong. The Huey revolutionized U.S. Army tactics and changed the way modern wars were fought. Veterans describe their feelings on flying the Huey into battle and how they could rely on the helicopter to pull them through even the worst firefights. It was a vital lifeline, providing food, ammunition, and fire support, and its role in medical evacuation was the difference between life and death. cc

8-9pm

Alien Encounters
Beginning in the 1960s, thousands of UFO landings, flyovers and collisions have left scientific evidence behind for study. These events have become known in the field of UFOlogy as the "trace cases." There are over 3,000 documented UFO physical trace cases and they have occurred in over 90 countries around the world. From impressions in the dirt, burned or broken vegetation and trees to scientific abnormalities that have yet to be explained, "trace cases" offer up some of the most convincing evidence of the UFO reality. Join us as we reveal what could possibly be evidence of "alien encounters." cc

9-10pm

Black Box UFO Secrets
Reveals for the first time the cockpit and control tower audio recordings of pilot and astronaut confrontations and sightings of unidentified flying objects high in our skies. From a detailed account of one of the very the first reported pilot case, the Arnold case in 1947, to recent recordings over New England and Texas, to NASA recordings and video from 2005, this special features interviews with pilots, witness and experts, including UCLA's Joseph Nagy, actor Ed Asner, and pilot/UFO researcher Don Berliner.
cc

10-12am

Little Ice Age: Big Chill
Not so long ago, civilization learned that it was no match for just a few degrees drop in temperature. Scientists call it the Little Ice Age--but its impact was anything but small. From 1300 to 1850, a period of cataclysmic cold caused havoc. It froze Viking colonists in Greenland, accelerated the Black Death in Europe, decimated the Spanish Armada, and helped trigger the French Revolution. The Little Ice Age reshaped the world in ways that now seem the stuff of fantasy--New York Harbor froze and people walked from Manhattan to Staten Island, Eskimos sailed kayaks as far south as Scotland, and two feet of snow fell on New England in June and July during "the Year Without a Summer". Could another catastrophic cold snap strike in the 21st century? Leading climatologists offer the latest theories, and scholars and historians recreate the history that could be a glimpse of things to come. Face the cold, hard truth of the past--an era that may be a window to our future.

[Mikey]

For the past 9 years of my life, I have put my faith in you to offer the best in educational entertainment in the form of documentaries and all things good (of that nature).

Unfortunately, every time I try to watch the history channel, it's always some bogus reality television bullshit. I usually only watch television at night, probably around 9pm to 11pm. Instead of having decent shows, it's all fucking reality television. Ice road truckers, axe men, they both suck balls. I don't care how daunting a task it may be, it's fucking dumb. Let Fox and all the other channels pay attention to pop culture, History channel is not the place. They aren't even riveting. The show is all about people doing boring shit, with tense sounding music to make it appear to be really dangerous.

The show that's really getting on my fucking nerves is "pawn stars". It's a show about some big time pawn shop run by some ignorant douchebags who couldn't run a fucking Toyota properly.

I don't really like watching shows that don't offer me much of anything. Sitcoms are alright every once in a while, but for the most part television programming is all shit. I will usually watch the military channel, but the programming is sporadic, really hit or miss.

It really, really sucks when I log off the computer at 9:30 to watch something intellegent, just to find 300 channels of nothing. Even the free on demand is absolute shit. They always advertise about having thousands of hours of free programming, but it's also bullshit. The on demand crap the have is simply programming for the sake of saying they have free programming.

ahh just fuck it.

i lol'ed

[Nug_King]

ever hear of Nova? It's even free and streaming online. New episodes right now too!

I know it's a PBS show (I think) but it deserves to be named.

Here is the link. NOVA | PBS


Personally I would never pay for cable/satelite TV. There is nothing on those that you can not find on the internet for free. Side reel, watch-movies, youtube, mininova, even the offical History Channel web page. Hell even Netflix has awsome shows and concert vids, rent rip repeat. If you need some noise in the room from the TV, use a digital antenne and watch local channels.


Oh yeah, don't write off your local library either. Lots of good documentaries and other interesting videos/DVDs.

[regarded]

tough luck man...ive been gettin awesome shows but i dont watch the channel in 9-11...

[Willie D]

I know this is somewhat unrelated but on my local PBS station they are showing Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood live at Madison Square Garden tonight at 8 PM, which is about 7 minutes from now.

bout to watch that shit

[Bearsy]

Idk if it'll be on mine, but I'm checking that out for sure.

Edit: Nope, Annie Hall. But that's not a bad thing at all. Great film. Really sucks that my Friday night consists of watching the Original Neurotic though.

[Willie D]

it was a great performance, they did all the songs from Blind Faith's first album, some solo Clapton stuff, Dear Mr. Fantasy, Little Wing, they probably did a few more but I missed the last half hour or so.

Clapton and Winwood were actually in Ohio recently but I wasn't able to go, I had already spent my money on 311/Ziggy Marley/Expendables tickets. but that was the best show I'd ever seen so I don't regret it.

edit-for anyone who doesn't know it, I fucking love this song

[Grieves]

TV is jew propaganda, the sooner you learn this the sooner you can start looking for alternative media...

[Willie D]

PBS isn't the same as TV in my mind. of course I know it's a television station but their programs are of a higher calibre than most TV.

if you don't like PBS than gtfo

[The Rev]

Reality shows are incredibly cheap to make, so until they get incredibly abysmal ratings, we are stuck with them. They're literally the last stop on the road to every show being "I'd buy that for a dollar!"



The Rev

[m0rb1d]

i hate shitty cg reenactments and/or predictions on the "learning" channels
shit needs to be like planet earth!