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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thunderfoot" data-source="post: 5026496" data-attributes="member: 34175">I have an answer for this, but you're not going to like it.You see The History channel is run by Discovery Networks, and if you have been paying attention across the DSC board, all of their channels, Discovery, Discovery International, History channel, History International, Military channel, SyFy, the Science channel, etc. have all been undergoing a slight cosmetic alteration.All of the programming on DN channels was watcher/content specific, History for military historians (until they created the military channel), Science for science geek, SciFi for science fiction geeks, etc. and this was fine; except a couple years back the company underwent a changeover in their higher-up (three years I think, but I'm too lazy to check) and that's about when things started altering.  See now they are actual looking for "ratings shares" not that cable/satellite channels have ever done it in the past, but hey, why not.  So starting with Discovery, they started doing reality shows to draw in more viewers, and it worked, but then some genius decided to start moving shows to other channels to "share the wealth".  Now Ghost Hunters on SciFi made sense, Junkyard Wars on The Science Channel made sense, Special Ops on the military channel made sense, but what in any thing would a reality show on the history channel would make sense.  They only thing I see that soul have worked was what PBS did a few years ago with the "house" series (1800's House, 1900's House, 1700's Community) where modern people were put into old world situations for 30-90 days and made to live according to historical standards, but the budget for those kinds of shows are out of this world. ([seedy marketing voice] "And of course, re-enactors are just plain sad, right?" [/seedy marketing voice] *rolleyes*)So you get Pawn Stars, yeah lots of history on that show, I mean it's about old stuff right?  And what about Ice Road Truckers, those guys are all old relics, so that fits.  And Gangland is about... umm... mobsters, yeah cause their... umm old skool... umm... yeah.Frankly whatever marketing weenie is pulling programming dollars from good historical shows and funding this tripe should be drawn and quartered, which IS historical and would be great programming for The History Channel.  I know I'd watch it. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/glasses.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt="B-)" title="Glasses    B-)" data-shortname="B-)" /></blockquote>

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