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Discovery is full of shows all about people looking for things but not discovering them.
Last time I watched anything like that, probably on netflix, they where looking for pirate gold and actually found it ... buried in a military munitions burial area they couldn't reasonably or legally excavate.
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It is frustrating. I still haven't found that damn Grail yet.
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Because around 20 years ago these networks figured out that they can make just as much money pumping out cheap and crappy reality shows as they can by creating expensive and difficult to produce quality programming.
Capitalism at its best
capiTALiSm bREeDS INnOvATIon
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PBS is the only television worth a damn. Incidentally, it is replete with history, documentaries, non-editorial news, music, and science.
Their YouTube channels are also top notch. Spacetime, Storied, Eons, Terra, Origins, Be Smart... all gold.
Man I love Spacetime and Eons. I have watched almost all of spacetime. I wish there were a spacetime hardcore where they threw as much math at me as possible. Awesome channels
That's why they want to get rid of it
Shout-out the PBS passport. $5 a month and I get all the antiques roadshow I can handle.
It's the tv version of NPR
So true. PBS has always been a reliable place to find something decent to watch when all else fails I feel. Not to mention no commercials! or very little if any.
There's no foxes on Fox News either.
Nor news
Yeah, because they own the rights to the name. If only I ran Fox News.. damn them.
Today on Fox News
This one is taking a nap in the snow. Was it a good nap? Did they have nice dreams? We'll investigate!
Reminds of an observation my dad made once about how neighborhoods are named after what had to cleared away to build there. Oakwoods. Rolling hills. Pleasent view. Etc etc
History channel has Forged in Fire where, for about 30 seconds per episode, they give a quick lesson about the historic weapon the contestants will make.
But yeah, TV is bullshit. Fuck commercials.
I always appreciated that in shows like Pawn Stars and American Pickers, yeah the main point is entertainment, but they actually made an effort to explain the objects and history around them.
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Don't forget Animal Planet, which hosts shows about tree houses and mermaids now.
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Cable is dying and they will do whatever it takes to keep it afloat until the last second
I can't remember the last time I had a cable subscription. It's been a while.
The last time I had cable was the year of 9/11. And that was only because I plugged in a stray cable on a whim and found that my upstairs apartment tapped into the the cable from the downstairs apartment.
Honestly, with internet, I never saw the point. And internet only cost $10-25/mo back then. Ofc, by about 2012 or so they became wise to that being the trend and started jacking the internet bill rates. And now internet costs the same as cable used to cost, or more, depending.
But I don’t think anyone ever did a GenX is Killing Cable TV headline.
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There used to be. Turns out you can make more money with reality TV.
Which reminds me. Reality TV isn't real.
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Because of capitalism. Because all content must drive quarterly profit ever-higher.
Meanwhile, public broadcasting (PBS) is still putting out great content for families regardless of profitability.
Enshittification time
Sometimes I can get the weather forecast on The Weather Channel.
But there are letters on ABC.
Checkmate, atheists.
I was 100% watching MTV the other day and they legitimately played some music
Thought I was hallucinating
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All those examples (except MTV) is David Zaslav hard at work. So glad he's in charge of WB now!
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All of those channels were idealistic and naive. The reality of capitalism destroyed them.
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Don't even get me started about the Body Shop.
No bodies I suppose. The old bait and switch.
I just wanted a couple of them for my own reasons and now I have a lifetime ban from the place.
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Olive oil is made of olives… at least in Italy it is. Anyway, what about baby oil? Better not think about it.
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Nickelodeon wasn't actually a movie theater that cost a nickel per show.
Fox isn't owned or operated by foxes.
ABC is not gum that has already been chewed.
Thank God for Cartoon Network.
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They use to say television rots the brain, but now it's clear that television just rots.
Someone should make a channel called boredom.
There is no socialism on social media
There is no war in Ba Sing Se
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