Are there any educational shows on educational channels anymore? The History Channel is nothing but pawn shop bullshit and antique buying. TLC use to stand for "The Learning Channel" but now only shows that Honey Booboo shit. And the Discovery Channel is full of staged "reality" shows. Except for
Mayday, and
Mythbusters, all they ever air is:
Overhaulin',
Fast and Loud,
Sons of Gun (all variations on the car modification reality show). I use to like
Deadliest Catch, but this past season has become so obviously staged and scripted it's unwatchable. Then there are the shit shows with the same
Deadliest Catch formula but are about gold digging, logging or oil drilling. And now
Naked and Afraid, in it's second season. I only watch it if there is nothing else to do before bed time, and only then I channel surf through most of it. I am so sick of these stupid shows where the producers deliberately hire incompatible people just for some contrived drama. The last episode of
Naked and Afraid I saw had some California hippie chick, and a redneck southern good ol' boy. And of course they clashed the whole episode. Plus the fact that they blur everything except their butts, which to me, is just bad to look at. TV is seriously regressing, how can the same network that use to air
The Sex Files back in the early 2000's be the same one that makes
Naked and Afraid now?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sex_Files. Discovery also had Bear Grylls'
Man Vs Wild show, sure there was some staged stuff in that show, but it was never as bad as the stuff on today.
Man vs Wild actually taught survival skills that one could use if one found one's self in a similar situation.
Naked and Afraid just shows a naked man and woman mostly just arguing for 21 days, until they finally work together in the end.