Why the Discovery Channel and TLC etc do not have Educational/Documentary shows anymore and they just have Reality TV?
The discovery channel just occasionaly has something interesting and documentaries but they use to have them all the time. Now it's just a bunch of Reality shows. What happened and why ? Does it cost to much to produce documentaries and stuff like that?
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Posted by Davedoe910 Feb 28th, 2013 at 1:56PM
And history channel. Because this generation is dumb as ****. I'm ashamed to be part of it. We need our educational tv back!! Plus MTV used to be music television right? Not spoiled rich ******** tv? Or pregnant 16 yo who has a baby to get Tv television? I miss history channel. :(
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Posted by TheSquirrel Dec 14th, 2012 at 9:50PM
TLC, A&E, Discovery are all sack of sh!t channels anymore. They had revenue goals, and the old model no longer worked. It is unfortunate for those of us who enjoyed the old days of cable.
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Posted by HeatherMist Dec 14th, 2012 at 9:54PM
Funny to find this because I was literally thinking about this earlier today.
Like sex, sh!t apparently sells. That and no one wants anything resembling intelligent television anymore.
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Posted by paclark Dec 14th, 2012 at 9:53PM
The same holds true for the History Channel. I think it boils down to two things. Reality TV is much cheaper for networks to produce. Second, many people are becoming content with a lower standared of entertainment nowadays. So the networks are just responding to that trend.
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Posted by xena2 Dec 14th, 2012 at 9:53PM
docs are very expensive to produce they require tons of research and editing
with reality tv all they have to do is turn the camera on and let the idiots perform
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Posted by SingleDad40 Dec 14th, 2012 at 9:53PM
Very few want to be educated anymore they are more concerned with the drama of staged shows....
They enjoy that drama because their lives suck and the shows make them feel better about theirselves
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Posted by AnonymousButCandid Dec 14th, 2012 at 9:52PM
"Reality TV" is an easy way to launch a show ... without having to hire qualified writers!!! It takes a lot of time, effort and expense to put out a good educational or documentary series, such as Nova on PBS. It is cheaper and easier for a TV station to send a camera team on the road and call it "Operation Repo" or "Fast 'n Loud".
Sad but true.
Cheers,
AnonymousButCandid
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Posted by knel123 Dec 14th, 2012 at 9:52PM
Cause they're cheaper to make probaby, and they think its what people want to see. Its like a vending machine in a cafeteria. Its full of junk food, and people seem to keep buying it, so people must just want to eat junk food.
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