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sdwulfdawg

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Has anyone else noticed that Discovery Communications' "Planet Green" network is now totally off doing shows about the environment and conservation and now features reruns of shows that have NOTHING at all to do with environment/conservation? It seems it started dying when Al Gore started to be out of vogue and stopped catching newspaper headlines.

Some current show examples:

Mighty Ships:
Inside the Queen Mary 2

Accidental Fortune:
Declaration of Independence

The Roswell Incident: Best Evidence

Return to Area 51

Extreme Cruise Ship Extreme Cruise Ship

Who Was Jesus?: Exodus
 
To me this channel is like G4......just fold up and go away. I sampled it when
it first arrived but it's not good enough for my favorites list.
 
sdwulfdawg said:
Has anyone else noticed that Discovery Communications' "Planet Green" network is now totally off doing shows about the environment and conservation and now features reruns of shows that have NOTHING at all to do with environment/conservation? It seems it started dying when Al Gore started to be out of vogue and stopped catching newspaper headlines.

Some current show examples:

Mighty Ships:
Inside the Queen Mary 2

Accidental Fortune:
Declaration of Independence

The Roswell Incident: Best Evidence

Return to Area 51

Extreme Cruise Ship Extreme Cruise Ship

Who Was Jesus?: Exodus
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Discovery Communications has stated that they plan to rebrand Planet Green soon.
 
I have noticed that every time I go by there they seem to be doing a show about paranormal investigators.
What ever happened to the zany antics of Ed Begley, Jr. ? And that the dot on their logo is now red and not green (??)

What I will call the "Global Warming Craze" of the early 2000's appears to be dying off.
Done in on a number of fronts, the not least of which has been the lack of any appreciable warming recently.
And the fact that none of the countries who had signed things like the Kyoto Protocol were actually living up to them.
Couple that with the scandal involving the scientists at East Anglia University and their emails to one another
on how to cook the books to show warming that was not really being measured, plus the near complete collapse
of Al Gore's credibility (I personally blame either South Park or the fact he runs some of the highest electric bills
in the State of Tennessee) and I think this is a channel for an idea whose time has passed.

By the way, notice how many solar panel and wind turbine companies are filing for bankruptcy lately?
If the polls stay the way they are today we are going to get a new President next year, and then it
will be "Drill, Baby, Drill". Try and sell your solar panel stock now.
 
FreddyE1977 said:
By the way, notice how many solar panel and wind turbine companies are filing for bankruptcy lately?
If the polls stay the way they are today we are going to get a new President next year, and then it
will be "Drill, Baby, Drill". Try and sell your solar panel stock now.
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The reason alternative energy blossomed a few years ago was back when oil was sky high and many of us were paying $4 to $5 a gallon for regular gas. As oil and gas became cheaper again, demand for alternative energy went down, and no new customers were buying. It all has to do with "supply and demand" for the competitor, not politics.

DToTheJ said:
Let me guess: as "PG", right?
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How about "TV-PG -- The Channel"? Though of course, they'll end up rebranding themselves again if they carry any TV-G or TV-14 shows.
 
I always liked David Letterman's joke he had once about how that due to the blizzard in New York City the UN conference on global warming had been cancelled. ;D
 
Not agreeing or disagreeing with the following observation, but there are a lot of people who blame environmentalism for exacerbating an already bad economy. Discovery may be sensing which direction the wind is blowing (for now at least) and distancing itself away from any "green" connections.
 
Or they're simply making a bottom line decision.

It's not as if the Rick Perry fans would be watching much of anything about actual science, "green" or otherwise. :D
 
That was funny, right? Being a conservative, my sense of humor isn't quite as well developed as with others more progressive than I. And being a potential Rick Perry supporter who also doesn't believe humans are causing global climate change, and who believes that evolution is nothing more than a theory, and a poor one at that, I don't quite have a grasp on the science of comedy.

TIA for explaining.

Oh, and if your answer to my first question is in the affirmative, then, ha ha.
 
So how many of Discovery's channels does this make that aren't doing as well since they were retooled? There's Planet Green, OWN, and The Hub at least. How are their other channels besides the main Discovery channel doing? It looks like some of these channels were bad moves.
 
And you've got to wonder what TLC's fate will be now that the "Kate + 8" show is cancelled.
 
Actually, no, we don't. There are many other shows doing well there. Shows get cancelled all the time, and it doesn't spell the end of the line for the respective network.
 
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