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Another show I think one of those channels has is the one where the people in it go around old buildings looking for ghosts.
The couple I saw had them sitting around in the dark, scaring themselves on ambient noises, then going back to a hotel to listening to a computer and saying " yep, that sounds like a ghost."

i'm not really a fan of reality shows, i'm more on R.Lee Erney shows instead
1. Mail Call, my fav was "Foxhole" episode. but it takes 4 hours to finish digging with shovels and no machine equipments. that's the way modern soldiers fight wars. and that should give us guidelines of terrain pieces.
2. Lock & Load

Piston Honda wrote:Why don't we have a wargamer channel yet?

History Channel used to favor Wargamers. the main focus (in the early days) were Ancient civ wars, Late 18th - Early 19th century (American Revolution Wars - Napoleonics, including the USA VS UK conflicts of 1812), World War series, and coldwar (Mainly the mideast conflicts, Israels VS Arabs. and Iraq VS USA)
Many (but no less importants) have been skipped. especially renaissance wars. (and the 30 years war). D'artagnan and Mousquetaire du Roi never been featured in any History Chaneel shows. mew!

PAWN STARS did have some history lessions in it (like how the grave markings were once made of cast metal and not a solid stone). but topshots don't.

Just last night I watched 5 minutes of some Bigfoot show, during which the Bigfoot "expert" explained that some guy's "encounter" was more likely a Bigfoot because he didn't see anything (the guy heard something walking through the woods at night). He explained that in most Bigfoot encounters, people don't see anything, so the fact that he didn't see anything just lends support to it being a Bigfoot.

Good gravy.

One thing I noticed though...when I brought up the program info page, it classified the show as "science fiction."

I remember when they would run some stuff about WWI and before, but now? I don't care about big foot or anything like that, just tell me how they killed people a long time ago and I'm good.

The H Channel use to have a great WWI (World war One) doco that they would play at 6:00 in the morning. I would watch it when i ate breakfast.

I can't recall the name, and I wan tto track it down and watch it.

Wolfstan wrote:Yesterday is fine once you get past all the Antique Roadshow repeats, all those period drama adaptions and bloody Last of the Summer Wine

That show is really on that channel?! Although I suppose it's fair enough, most of the cast were born during the Victorian era.

I watched a drama I while ago where one of the characters were driving into a rather rich town in the US. One of them comments, "Man, there is more German hardware here than on the History channel."

I personally like the history channel offerings like Pawn Stars, not really because of the people on the show but because you can sometimes see some pretty cool stuff. Its the same with Storage Wars and especially American Pickers, I'm a big fan of antiques and other little things that were used back in the days. I don't remember the name of the show, but the restoration one is also really cool. The Larry the Cable Guy show is also pretty neat because its a bunch of facts that people don't really learn if they don't live in a certain area and in a country filled with multiple cultural identities its also neat to see how certain "American" things came to be.

They shouldn't be on history channel though, I will say that.

Seconded on the military channel though, its a really cool channel. I like their top weapons shows where they countdown various weapons and vehicles, that's where I learned that the BMPs were innovative as being the first enclosed armored troop transport but they took a few steps back when they decided to put the fuel tanks on the inside of the rear door. That means a strong enough shot to the back, where the troops were, could make the fuel tanks go off killing everyone inside.

halonachos wrote:I personally like the history channel offerings like Pawn Stars, not really because of the people on the show but because you can sometimes see some pretty cool stuff. Its the same with Storage Wars and especially American Pickers

I think at least Storage wars is also on the then UK as well as Pawn Stars, not sure about Ameircan Pickers. I've watched the first two a couple of times, and there pretty interesting to watch, but really, History channel? With like hundreds of channels, surely there is a better suited channel.

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Relapse wrote:Is Yesterday like an old time channel for British shows?

It's roughly a 50/50 split between that and documentaries of mixed quality, some excellent (World at War) some poor (Battleplan).

I watched a real turkey about 'The real King Arthur' last night. I'm not sure what channel it was on though.

Oh, god, I need to rewatch World At War. Fantastic.

I will always have memorys of hearing that haunting theme song and especially that little girl with the haunting eyes. I watched that when I was like 4 or 5 with my pops.

I wish I could of picked up the whole collection on DVD. I know it's out here somewhere but it would be a fething arm and a leg.

Also check out 'Vietnam in HD'. It's the same style as WWII in HD (which I rather enjoyed personally) and some nice combat shots. Basically the first episode was 'Ia Drag' which is alright, but I wish they would of focused more on the MIKE and CDIG programs with MAAG-V 'technical advisors' first of all then eased into 'round one' like Ia Drang. That would pave the way to introduce The Defensive,Counteroffensive and the end from 63-73.

Yeah, I really like The 'Nam.

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I wish I could of picked up the whole collection on DVD. I know it's out here somewhere but it would be a fething arm and a leg.

According to amazon.com the World At War DVD collection, 30th anniversary edition is 40.99 USD (plus shipping and any applicable taxes)

Discovery channel has Mythbusters, which is the best show on TV. A lot of their other programs are kind of meh.

gorgon wrote:Just last night I watched 5 minutes of some Bigfoot show, during which the Bigfoot "expert" explained that some guy's "encounter" was more likely a Bigfoot because he didn't see anything (the guy heard something walking through the woods at night). He explained that in most Bigfoot encounters, people don't see anything, so the fact that he didn't see anything just lends support to it being a Bigfoot.

Good gravy.

One thing I noticed though...when I brought up the program info page, it classified the show as "science fiction."

I wuld me more concerned about the fact that the there is a show entirely dedicated to bigfoot. Unless it is a reality show that follows bigfoot's life and family as they are hunted by the paparazzi.

hotsauceman1 wrote:Just checked History channels line up tommorow
From 12:00 to 10:00 Nothing but American pickers.
And the other times its Ax Men, Pawn stars and Cajun pawnstars( a crappy spin-off)
Lets not forget about Swamp Men and Top Shot.
But good News. SyFy Has gotten Better.
Being Human
Merlin
Warehouse 13
Eureka
And all the Schlock movies you can wish for.

Yea Im pretty excited for Being Human to come back as well. Yes Im talking about the American version

GalacticDefender wrote:Discovery channel has Mythbusters, which is the best show on TV. A lot of their other programs are kind of meh.

Mythbusters is my favorite. Thai voice dubs are dem hillarious =^.^=
Smash Lab is just a copy of Mythbusters.

other shows are just a so-so, sometimes inferior to french TV5.

Ancient Aliens built the Pyramids.

And tinkered with out evolution. We are just one giant alien ant farm.

I loved the one where they said the Pyramids were some type of fusion engines that powered everything on the ground. And the obelisks that we see scattered around, those directed "energy beams" to the satellites they had in space. At first, my brain skipped a beat....then it took a few moments for my brain to reset, and then I cried laughing so hard

Yes, alien energy beams.

Yanno what, the show I was talking about was from season 1, so I cant remember EXACTLY who said it....but I do think it was Georgio there


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Side note, I love how his hair goes from decent at first, to flying rodent gak crazy as the show progresses


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Wait a second........ the FILTERED bat ...........................gak crazy?!? Are you kidding me?!?! Since when is bat a bad word?

I've only ever seen one episode, though it kind of made me want to watch the history channel a little more. When I rarely watch TV, it's usually discovery and it's those types of shows where they build machines. That is when nothing funny is on at least.

There's one suitable picture though when you google him.

Bad photoshop, though makes sense.

Y'know. The original Ancient aliens special was good. It brought up some interesting points and thoughts.
But then they gave it a series.

Agreed. I watched the first special and also thought, "now they DO make some interesting points" but now.....its just a make some popcorn and laugh for an hour

hotsauceman1 wrote:Y'know. The original Ancient aliens special was good. It brought up some interesting points and thoughts.
But then they gave it a series.

at some part 'advanced alien race seeded our civilizations' seems to be true. but on the Egypt things. it sounds quite dubious.
in the other shows. "Atlantis" .the narrator said that Atlantis exists in the same time Egypt does, and their archetechture is distinctively egypt/ancient mideast and not greco romans as the folk believes.
the show cited that Atlanteans migrated to Egypt after a catalclysm and began working on egyptian civilizations. including the construction of THE GREAT PYRAMID. (but not giving their motivations 'why' ?)
the only thing that sounds more logical was that of 'disc saw' was used in quarries and contributed to the construction of the GREAT PYRAMID.