The History Channel! Shame Shame.

[Factor]

Originally Posted by Platapus

I am assuming that you are not aware that the History Channel and the Military History Channel are both owned by the same company?

The Military Channel I mentioned is owned by the Discovery Channel.

Is that the same one as,The Military History Channel?

BTW, whats up with my avatar? Talk about, Dont ask Dont tell.

[mookiemookie]

History Channel has found that they can get more and younger viewers by loading up on cheap-to-produce reality shows. I'm not sure why they haven't just gone ahead and changed their name already. They're anything but history anymore.

[breadcatcher101]

They have really gone downhill the past few years, I hardly ever watch anymore.

We will play our VHS copy of "The Longest Day" though.

The scene where Pluskat looks at the camera and announces the invasion is priceless.

[Sailor Steve]

I too will be popping in my copy of The Longest Day. But mine is DVD.

I used to be a regular poster on a naval history forum. Even several years ago we would watch a show on the History Channel that actually was about history, and make jokes about all the things they got wrong.

Originally Posted by Factor

BTW, whats up with my avatar? Talk about, Dont ask Dont tell.

That's the avatar that Dowly long ago named the 'Gay Biker Dude'. Don't worry, in about eight more posts he'll be gone. Then you can really cry about "don't ask, don't tell."

[Stealth Hunter]

I wrote them a few years ago about this bullsh** of theirs with the non-historical stuff. Never did receive a reply. So I'm just going to spend tomorrow watching all the Band of Brothers episodes, followed by Saving Private Ryan, The Longest Day, Where Eagles Dare, maybe some Big Red One.

[Jimbuna]

Here is the schedule for today on the UK History Channel

http://www.history.co.uk/tv-schedule.html

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Here is the schedule for today on the UK History Channel

http://www.history.co.uk/tv-schedule.html

The Military Channel is probably where it would land up:

Two episodes of The World At War (first two IIRC)
Then 'D-Day: The Lost Evidence"
Then 'Hell's Battlefield' D-Day Omaha Beach
Then 'Britain at War - D-Day'
Then 'Slaughter at Omaha Beach'

So, not a bad selection, as they go.

[August]

I watched the 2nd and 3rd episodes of Band of Brothers.

[Safe-Keeper]

Don't see the problem. Sure, D-Day was important and all, but are you really saying every single June 6th should be dedicated to it? Should we do this with the other large-scale events throughout history, too? Because then pretty much every single day of the 365(1/4) days of the year would have to be a "_________ Day" devoted to some event or another.

Whatever, I mean, June 6th does not mean crap to anyone anymore. Its not like it was one of the most important events in the history of man.

How, exactly, is it "one of the most important events in the history of man"? The landings were the inevitable results of the superior economic and military power of the Allies. It brought the war into its final stages, but it's not as if it's a turning point (like Stalingrad or Midway).

I can think of many, many, many more important events than a single battle in a single war against one of Earth's countless tyrants.

[NeonSamurai]

Ya History channel here sucks too (so does discovery). At least though they were forced by the regulating body in Canada to stop showing bloody CSI reruns.

Frankly I am sick of the sensationalist and 'reality' shows from both of them. They sure those world ending shows of theirs (super volcanoes, killer comets, etc etc etc etc etc).

This is the schedule for tonight in Canada.

6:00 PM ET/PT
Ice Pilots NWT
Pre-Christmas Rush(CC)

7:00 PM ET/PT
Ice Road Truckers
Ocean Run(CC)

8:00 PM ET/PT
Bloody Normandy
(CC)

9:00 PM ET/PT
Saving Private Ryan
(CC)

1:00 AM ET/PT
Greatest Tank Battles
The Battle of Normandy(CC)

[STEED]

I don't why anyone would bother with the HC its rubbish! There are plenty of damn good books out there worth there weight in gold, your learn more from them than that awful junk the HC.

[Oberon]

Channel Five (Of all places) has:

"D: Day: The Ultimate Conflict"

on at the moment.

Originally Posted by breadcatcher101

The scene where Pluskat looks at the camera and announces the invasion is priceless.

"AUF MICH ZU DIRECKT!"