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CowsLookLikeMaps@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In the 80s, if you got up really early, like 5 am, Discovery would sometimes just put a camera on a professor giving a lecture. It was pretty cool. I guess we have YouTube for that sort of thing now, but you even make a suggestion like that to a Discovery executive now and they’d probably try to murder you.

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• BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As I recall back in 2003 when MythBusters started there were still some okay shows left but it went downhill quickly from there.

  I haven’t been able to find a good list of Discovery schedules by year, that would make it clear when it became reality only.

  The good shows from the 90s I remember was:

  • Dinosaur! and When Dinosaurs Ruled with Bob Bakker
  • Connections with James Burke
  • Beyond 2000
  • Time Team
  • WW2 documentaries

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Discovery showing Time Team made me a lifelong fan. Most of the old episodes are on YouTube now. They have a Patreon to fund new episodes. They aren’t as good because Tony doesn’t host them, but they’re still fun.

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