Once again I get to rant about quality American television programming. Once again an old favorite adds to my disgust, forcing me into a drastic decision. I'm giving up on the history channel. Discovery and National Geographic aren't far behind.
The History Channel has announced not one, but two new Pawn Stars shows. For cryin' out loud. I could almost forgive one, but now three? It's still not just The History Channel, Discovery, National Geographic and even Animal Planet are just as bad. Now you can find crab fishing, lobster fishing, swordfish fishing, giant river monster fishing, hillbilly hand fishing, at least two versions of shrimping in the Gulf of Mexico.
By my count, there are at least three and possibly four television shows about repossession agents and staged repossessions on anything from pinball machines to airplanes. Truck driving, truck driving on ice, truck driving on stupid ass, narrow, dangerous third world roads. Auctions of delinquent storage units. Gold miners in Alaska, gold miners in the Bering sea. Asshole roughnecks in Texas. More pawn shops. Oh, how could I forget Swamp loggers, American loggers and Axe men. Oh and feral hog hunting, Weed wars and Moonshiners. Cops, Border wars, Bait car and Alaska State Troopers. I will admit to watching the first season of Flying wild Alaska, I'm a sucker for airplanes. This season, not so much.
Do people actually watch this shit?
I guess I'll go back to the SYFY channel...
1 comment:
I'm waiting for Discover/History/Nat Geo to decide that they need to get into the professional wrestling programming niche.
With bears. Or sharks. Maybe lawyers.
Or professional wrestlers being served. By lawyers. To bearsharktopuses.
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