• Etterra@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    4 months ago

    I miss the days when column A was accurate. Hell I miss the days when the goddamn learning channel was actually educational.

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
    12·
    4 months ago

    I can pretty much guarantee you could steal the authentic Mona Lisa, take it to Pawn Stars, and they’d give you 20¢ because “ThEy’Re TaKiNg A rIsK bUyInG tHaT” just to rip off customers who don’t know any better.

    • Uninformed_Tyler@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      4 months ago

      The goal of the networks is to sell ads. If this gets more views then it gets shown. Nothing more to it than that. You’re looking for quality entertainment. They want to sell over priced car warranties. Those are very different goals and so the paths have diverged.

    • MrStankov@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      They cater to their audience. And who in this day and age is spending lots of time watching cable TV?

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    7·
    4 months ago

    If Discovery’s reality “people in the jungle” is anything like the Primitive Technology channel on YouTube, that might be good. I was really impressed by that, and it was popular on Reddit. Some guy – IIRC a Kiwi – heads out to the forest with nothing other than his shorts and starts building up technology from scratch, using only what’s in the forest – last I watched, he’d gotten up to iron production.

    checks

    Looks like the guy is still going:

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA

    EDIT: Aussie, not Kiwi.

  • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
    71·
    4 months ago

    Inaccurate - Column B is all just Reality TV™ now.

  • Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    4 months ago

    I remember the days when those channels actually played what the first images show. I used to love the history Channel

  • kent_ehEnglish
    4·
    4 months ago

    I don’t regret my decision to cut cable many years ago.

    And it was crap like this that helped me make that choice (along with ever increasing prices and the worsening ad-to-content ratio)

  • Roldyclark@literature.cafeEnglish
    2·
    4 months ago

    Roku LiveTV is awesome. Watched a great BBC doc on the Nile the other day, very few commercials. The channels are way more focused.

  • frankgrimeszz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    4 months ago

    History channel: “We don’t understand basic concepts of engineering or physics, so here’s some shit about how aliens must have built the pyramids. We also have no idea how skyscrapers or bridges are constructed, so that must have been aliens too.”