Shape Up History Channel!

[Wyld45]

             Used to be a time I really enjoyed the H.C. most everything they had on. Here the past
        (?? couldnt even tell you), its really been poor programming for the most part. Never really
         had to pick through it before,especially while back when there was at least "Mail-Call",
         "Dogfights", "Enterprise 360" and a multitude of other war-history programs.

            Everybody has to just get on the "Reality" band wagon and I never thought H.C.
            would ever do that. Now its "Ice Road Truckers" over and over,(just in case you
            didnt get enough of it the 3rd and 4th time through!), and several others Im not
            even going to waste my time saying.  Any other fans besides myself been just
            a little disgruntled about this?...and dont get me started on "Gangland"! 

[Curval]

Completely agree...wtf Ice Road Truckers has to do with history is beyond me.
Discovery Channel has become more interesting than History Channel.

[ridley1]

It's economics....Reality programs are cheaper to produce.

[RipChord929]

Yeah. I agree!!!

Hardly watch anymore, too many inaccuracies,
or total BS revisionist history on now...

Those mega BS shows like, UFO hunters, Monsterquest,
Ice road truckers, Sand hogs, Axe men, are just the
outward signs of the propaganda machine at work
behind the scenes...

Then on sunday morn, they have a show that
spews liberal political garbage from Neil Gabler..
(A self avowed socialist)
And they represent it as "History"?

Are ya getting an inkling of our liberal media future???
If history doesn't support your viewpoint? Just Change it!!!

LOL, how do ya like it?

RC

[Ghosth]

I agree, History Channel & Military Channel used to have great programming. Both have seriously slipped in the last 2 years IMO.

I'm about to drop to basic and stop paying for them. Its just not worth it anymore. The only reason I don't is that the Science channel is still doing some interesting stuff from time to time.

[Eagler]

Wait until Winston Smith is selected next year and is told to report to the Ministry of Truth - the real re-write will start Jan 2009.
the death of capitalism will be the prelude................

[Selino631]

YEA!!! WTF IS UP WITH Monster Quest?!

[Anaxogoras]

Many years ago I used to watch the Discovery Channel when they had Wings and other science/engineering type programs (mid 90s).  I haven't watched one of their shows in more than a decade.

The History channel never had its golden age so far as I'm concerned.  From the very beginning, all of its war "documentaries" were propaganda.

[Nefarious]

I was watching that Showdown Air Combat on the Military Channel, the show where they actually fly the airplanes and he chases them around in an AT-6 describing the dogfight.

Well, this one was P-47 vs Fw 190, and I'm thinking to myself, where did they get the 190? Because I know there aren't too many around let alone any that can fly... So they go to the dogfight portion, and there showing the P-47 flying around, doing maneuvers and such. Then the host (in the back of the AT-6) starts talking about the fight between the P-47 and the Fw190s. Instead of cutting back to the P-47 footage they cut to footage of and Remote Control P47 and Fw190s fighting each other.

The most shameful thing about it was the fact he is describing the Remote Control fight from the back of a AT-6 Texan. I don't see how anybody could of believed it.

[sunfan1121]

I was watching that Showdown Air Combat on the Military Channel, the show where they actually fly the airplanes and he chases them around in an AT-6 describing the dogfight.

Well, this one was P-47 vs Fw 190, and I'm thinking to myself, where did they get the 190? Because I know there aren't too many around let alone any that can fly... So they go to the dogfight portion, and there showing the P-47 flying around, doing maneuvers and such. Then the host (in the back of the AT-6) starts talking about the fight between the P-47 and the Fw190s. Instead of cutting back to the P-47 footage they cut to footage of and Remote Control P47 and Fw190s fighting each other.

The most shameful thing about it was the fact he is describing the Remote Control fight from the back of a AT-6 Texan. I don't see how anybody could of believed it.

LOL it was a good show, up until that point.

[Fulmar]

When I read this thread topic, I thought Shape Up was a new reality show coming to the History Channel...

[SIK1]

When I read this thread topic, I thought Shape Up was a new reality show coming to the History Channel...

No, I think that one's on ABC.

[Fencer51]

I was watching that Showdown Air Combat on the Military Channel, the show where they actually fly the airplanes and he chases them around in an AT-6 describing the dogfight.

Well, this one was P-47 vs Fw 190, and I'm thinking to myself, where did they get the 190? Because I know there aren't too many around let alone any that can fly... So they go to the dogfight portion, and there showing the P-47 flying around, doing maneuvers and such. Then the host (in the back of the AT-6) starts talking about the fight between the P-47 and the Fw190s. Instead of cutting back to the P-47 footage they cut to footage of and Remote Control P47 and Fw190s fighting each other.

The most shameful thing about it was the fact he is describing the Remote Control fight from the back of a AT-6 Texan. I don't see how anybody could of believed it.

I was incredulous when I saw that.  That was the only episode of that series I had seen to that point, and I will not be watching any others.

Why they do not go back to the "classics" of documentaries like the Civil War series, Crusade on Europe, Century of Warfare, War Walks, World at War, Battlefield (of PBS fame, there are alot more never aired in America), Victory at Sea.. heck anything by Cromwell Productions would be easy to acquire and broadcast for less than some of those shows they are doing now.

[glock89]

I was incredulous when I saw that.  That was the only episode of that series I had seen to that point, and I will not be watching any others.

Why they do not go back to the "classics" of documentaries like the Civil War series, Crusade on Europe, Century of Warfare, War Walks, World at War, Battlefield (of PBS fame, there are alot more never aired in America), Victory at Sea.. heck anything by Cromwell Productions would be easy to acquire and broadcast for less than some of those shows they are doing now.

I use to watch that stuff now it not even on  any one remember heavy metal now that was a good show.   

[caldera]

YEA!!! WTF IS UP WITH Monster Quest?!

To put it plainly, it sucks.
Once The History Channel replaced Dogfights with Ice Road Truckers, I stopped watching.
Television in general is unwatchable.