Whatever happened to Animal Planet?

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

This afternoon we were watching a show on HGTV. You know, the show one would normally expect from that network. Buy house, fix up house, reveal amazing transformation of said house. Somehow about 10 minutes into the episode, the host mentioned something about a fertilization clinic. Suddenly rather than watching a home remodel (since we were, you know, tuned to HGTV) we were in a doctor's office where they were discussing her plans to get pregnant, fertilization methods and the host of the program was in tears.

We quickly changed the channel. People don't generally watch Home and Garden TeleVision to see people's struggles to conceive a child, amid the backdrop being a home remodel project.

Well we are asking HGTV to be what it was in the 2000's. This time those how to segments have moved to YouTube.

 

[xkxrx]

why not sell it on your own or through an auction house rather than deal with a pawn shop?

Maybe they're hoping for their "15 minutes of fame."

 

[MarcB]

I was scrolling the on-screen program guide last night and I saw the 1939 Classic "The Wizard of Oz" listed for several times in a row beginning at 8AM Christmas Morning on Cartoon Network. The Warner Networks already share that movie between TBS, TNT, and Turner Classic Movies.

 

[anotherguyTN]

Although it probably doesn't fit their programming style 24 hours of Oz would make more sense on TCM.

 

[K6JHU]

wizard of Oz would make perfect sense on TCM. However, Comcast has put TCM in the Sports Tier, so TCM is not available to most of us on Comcast unless we pay.

 

[nomadcowatbk]

This isn't 1972 where you could only see the Wizard of Oz once a year on CBS

 

[seatownmedia]

I'm sorry to say, but I think that's how things are going down this century , because as so long as it pays the bills, no broadcaster (not even Animal Planet) will consider how the audience feels, or bat an eye. My personal grumble is with the History Channel who went away from historical content to Pawn Stars and Predicting the apocalypse (this was back in 2012, now they're even less History). On the bright side, at least they haven't screwed up the actual Discovery channel... yet.

Edited to remove some negativity from my post. This is not Tall Guy's fault, but I also don't want him to be dragged down by the inevitable.

Well, to play devil’s advocate pawn stars deals a lot with memorabilia which could be considered history. Just looked up their lineup for the next 24 hours and I see about 12 hours of “Forged in Fire” back to back, followed by paid programming for two hours, then an hour of religious programming, Then 22 straight episodes of pawn stars.