Comment on Memory is a fickle mistress

digital_man@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• wander1236@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Their show was running alongside all the Discovery and History crap about ancient aliens, mermaids, and Bigfoot, so I’m not sure about those first two things.

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  • iltoroargento@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    In its first years it actually ran alongside a lot of interesting and significantly more scholarly shows on those two networks. The early 2000s actually had some solid programming on the history channel. Pretty quickly devolved into pawn stars and ancient aliens after that, though. So, yeah, half to most of its run was alongside utter garbage.

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    • whotookkarl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      The same people working for David Zaslav who pushed discovery and history to be almost entirely pseudoscience and low effort variety/reality TV are currently running HBO’s streaming service, Max.

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      • iltoroargento@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        It shows.

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      • dalekcaan@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        That’s both disheartening and not at all surprising.

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    • Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Yeah, Adam did say they would never have the same opportunity today than they have in 2003, the landscape of edutainment show is just too different today.

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      • anomnom@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        They could probably do something similar with YouTube and a big patreon following. But they would have had trouble starting from scratch the way that Discovery’s production money allowed. Would have taken a lot longer to ramp up, but also a lot less lawyers would have been involved probably.

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  • saltesc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Now it’s still all WW2 revisited with “never before seen” enhanced footage, usually centred around Hitler. Clone, clone, clone.

    I’d like to see them challenge themselves to have to actually dig up some info for once.

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