Discovery channel new boss promises more 'authenticity'
Source: BBC News
The new president of the Discovery channel, Rich Ross, has promised a move away from sensationalist programming.
Many viewers regarded the network's recent "fake documentaries", including two on mermaids, as a betrayal of the network's science roots
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Speaking about the fake documentaries - including titles such as Megalodon: The Monster Shark Lives - Ross, said he didn't think they were "right for Discovery Channel, and I think it's something that has run its course.
"They've done very well
but I don't think it's something that's right for us."
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-30746287
Well, that certainly is refreshing. Maybe there's hope that we can start learning stuff on The Learning Channel again, other than how learning much money it costs to debase one's self and one's family in a brainless reality show.
Could A&E return to giving us programming that is actually artistic as well as entertaining?
Archae
(46,343 posts)Literally.
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TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)swamp-logging tattoo-parlor fat-white-trash ice-road-trucking crab-fishing midgets can you watch?
Galileo126
(2,016 posts)Maybe Dr. Neil's show on NatGeo might start the clean-up of their programming, too. I mean, it's just cops, drugs and prepper shit.
I'm not holding my breath either.
marle35
(172 posts)This is a little off-topic, but I really like that show. I don't pretend to have the best taste in reality TV, however I found the second episode of the new season really compelling. It followed the trip cocaine makes, from its cultivation in Peru to an L.A. party scene. Sensationalist, sure, but well-produced stuff.
Archae
(46,343 posts)"Wings"
niyad
(113,527 posts)Rhiannon12866
(205,857 posts)neverforget
(9,436 posts)No history on the History Channel......
valerief
(53,235 posts)authenticity means authenticitiness.
Reality today is just successful bullshit.
groundloop
(11,521 posts)bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)time to try something new.