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06-05-2008, 08:27 AM
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What TV Ought To Be; Kudos To The Discovery Channel
It's easy to denigrate television as a vapid, brain-sucking wasteland (and for the most part it is). But I think it's worth celebrating how great a job the Discovery Channel has done putting together a lineup of educational and highly entertaining programming.
Among their many fine programs, I've enjoyed so many. I don't regularly watch any of them but "Mythbusters" but I've caught at least one episode of all of these great shows at one point or another: Mythbusters Dirty Jobs Deadliest Catch Survivorman The Alaska Experiment Planet Earth Verminators Man vs. Wild How do they do it? and of course "Shark Week." What's your favorite Discovery Channel program?
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With old odd ends stolen forth from holy writ And seem a saint when most I play the devil. - Richard III If you want to catch a fish, don't follow a chicken. Last edited by doppelgänger; 06-05-2008 at 08:32 AM. 
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06-05-2008, 08:29 AM
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'Dirty Jobs' is a fun show, wading through all the slop and grime of human society. The literal kind, of course.
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06-05-2008, 08:31 AM
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And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With old odd ends stolen forth from holy writ And seem a saint when most I play the devil. - Richard III If you want to catch a fish, don't follow a chicken.
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06-05-2008, 08:33 AM
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Deadliest catch is a great programme.
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06-05-2008, 08:38 AM
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I regularly buy a lot of their DVDs. My favorites are The Future is Wild, Alien Planet, and Chased By Sea Monsters.
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06-05-2008, 08:58 AM
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I get all of the educational channels mixed up, so I'm not sure what I've seen on Discovery. I've seen some of those shows a few times. I like Verminators because I used to do Pest Control. Planet Earth was great, too, although I haven't finished watching all of them.
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06-05-2008, 01:45 PM
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Every single show on the Discovery Channel (except that dumb show about hauntings) is good. My favourites are probably Survivorman, Deadliest Catch, and The Alaska Experiment. It would be my greatest dream to be a camera operator for a Discovery Channel reality show. Plus, a lot of those shows just rekindle loves I have of things like Alaska and boats, and allow me to live the fantansy vicariously, at least to some extent.
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06-05-2008, 01:49 PM
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It was a really entertaining example of engineering in its purest form: here's your task; here are your resources. Using what you have and considering your limitations of capabilities and time, create a mechanical device to accomplish that task as well as you can. Brilliant. As for current shows, I like Mythbusters. And do you guys get Daily Planet in the US? BTW - from what I've seen of it, "Man vs. Wild" seems to be a ripoff of the show "Survivorman" that airs on OLN Canada.
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06-05-2008, 01:59 PM
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