What went wrong?

American tv producers and American audiences

DUDE ALIENS LMAO

Nazis, conspiracies, and reality TV.

Forged in Fire is comfy as fuck though. Drink anytime they say delamination or forge weld.

Swamp people is absolute trash.

Not forcing Katheryn Winnick to show her fanny flaps

>>83044521
Better question: what went right? Literally nothing.

not much, it's a good ass channel

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>>83044521
>this will never be rebroadcasted.

>>83044521
They started doing shows that weren't about world war 2.

Literally executives. They ruin everything.

They constantly crave "growth" so when they inevitably find out that the can get bigger views by watering down niche products they push everything towards the lowest common denominator without second thought.

>>83044669
Forged in fire is great. All the contestants just buddy up with each other because they never get to meet other blacksmiths

>>83044818
Hmmm, who are these (((executives)))?

>>83044521
In the mid-2000s Nancy Dubuc became the History Channel's director of historical programming. Women have a notorious disdain for history and a love of shitty reality shows.

But it was always an upward battle for the channel. In the early days, the golden era, they mostly just re-ran programs made from other A&E owned channels. They rarely had their own original programming. In the late 90s early 2000s they mostly focused on WW2, easy enough. Except that was basically all they aired. They didn't get the message that maybe people are tired of WW2, they took it as people are tired of history, and then began focusing on UFO shit, even before Ancient Aliens.

Another big problem is, most people are kind of dumb, and do not want to be reminded of that. You can't educate them, because if you did, they might realize the didn't know something. So you go for sensationalism, crazy out there shit. If they get this esoteric knowledge they might have something over their 4th grade history teacher. Then you have shit like Ancient Aliens, and Nazi war machines that were only planned, etc.

Of course, you could always just make red-neck reality shows. They are ultra cheap, you don't need any costumes, you don't have to do any research, and people wont have to worry about not knowing something.

>b-but in Britain we have decent educational programming
You do, but its state funded. In the US PBS sometimes has some decent stuff.

>>83044669
I like the no bullshit attitude of the judges in that show. If someone fucks up tremendously they don't waste time building fake suspense or deliberating on it like when some asshole only uses half the basket in Chopped without getting immediately kicked off.

The better question is why hasn't ANYTHING risen to fill its gap in the market?
People like """science""" they circle jerk about it all over the place.
Yet every channel that could ever claim to have educational value has been reduced to mindless drivel.
It fell to seth McFarlane to personally fund cosmos 2.0 and of course he filled it up with liberal mastubatory aids.
(((They))) want to keep us ignorant, it's the only thing that makes sense.

Zionist agenda.

>>83046475
Because most intelligent people gave up watching tv like a decade ago dude.

>>83046475
*tips pickelhaube*

>>83044669
Alone is also digestible. The rest is trash.

>>83044521

Capitalism.

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>>83045138
gee I sure wonder who anon..........................................

>>83044521
I'm America myself and its plain for all to see that our documentaries are shit. It's like they try to pander to the reality TV audience who aren't going to watch a documentary anyway while also alienating people who actually enjoy history. It was a lose / lose situation and so they just went with what earned them the most money, pawn stars and shit like that.

>>83044521
they got bought by Discovery Communications years ago