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And The History Channel showed documentaries that weren't about aliens.
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I remember both of those going downhill in real time but the one that hit me the hardest was Discovery Channel. One day it was Bill Nye, Mythbusters, Shark Week, and science documentaries and the next it was Pawn Stars, Swamp Loggers, and American Chopper. At least we got a nice meme template out of that last one.
I think Ancient Aliens and other similar shows did much more dirty work.
Yeah. Swamp Loggers was okay (at least interesting and sort-of fit the theme of the channel) but the rest definitely were a jarring shift to lazy reality shows.
Deadliest Catch was pretty fantastic, but I don't remember exactly when it came into the picture.
Deadliest Catch started when those other shows were still on, and the first bunch of seasons were good. In more recent years, the “will they find crab” story was getting too repetitive, so now they’re manufacturing storylines. I had to stop watching a few seasons ago because the bad acting from fishermen was just too cringy. I would lump it in with the other reality shows now.
Sounds about right. I dropped cable in 2010 or thereabouts so probably right around the time that shifted.
Oh man loved dirty jobs that was an excellent look into the way of the working mans world.
I miss the fun shark week
American Chopper ... that was supposed to just be a show about building bikes, but on day one, the Pauls had one of their legendary disagreements. They didn't have to script, the drama just wrote itself. Everyone jumped on the reality tv bandwagon to try and recreate the popularity of watching Paul Drama, Inc.
It also made for great memes.
they destroyed SYFY over this, when they added WWE to syfy channel it was over.
The SciFi channel died the day they became the Syfy channel. It may have already been dead by then.
true. a
mythbusters was the last good show on the channel.
mythbuster was the last show i was addicted to discovery for, anything after that is unknown to me.
9/11 did it.
People wanted fluff all the sudden for some reason.