I remember watching a ton of Deadliest Catch years ago but I couldn't tell you anything about it. They go to catch crabs, will they? I don't know! Then they do or they don't.
What's going on in this picture, Marisa is holding onto one of the crab cages, but it looks like she's in a tiny rowboat or something, she's gonna die at that rate.
I remember watching a ton of Deadliest Catch years ago but I couldn't tell you anything about it. They go to catch crabs, will they? I don't know! Then they do or they don't.
What's going on in this picture, Marisa is holding onto one of the crab cages, but it looks like she's in a tiny rowboat or something, she's gonna die at that rate.
Deadliest catch marked the first of a long list of insufferable programs about regular joes doing regular stuff that i associate with Discovery Channel going to shit.
Deadliest catch marked the first of a long list of insufferable programs about regular joes doing regular stuff that i associate with Discovery Channel going to shit.
I take it that means you don't like stuff like Dirty Jobs or any of that? I will admit, some shows don't appeal to me, like thag Moonshiners one and such, but they have their market. Discovery Channel has to cater to more than just 1 type of viewer, and atm hasn't deviated from the original market like History Channel has.
Deadliest catch marked the first of a long list of insufferable programs about regular joes doing regular stuff that i associate with Discovery Channel going to shit.
It's part of the overall decline in cable.
When there were only three networks, TV stations could have a good chance of getting a fairly substantial audience for nearly anything it put out, but with even basic cable having an ever-increasing number of channels to choose from, it became harder and harder to get a significant amount of viewership. HBO (and eventually NetFlix) would go the route of making "must-see TV" where they would generate such huge amounts of hype for a TV show like The Sopranos or Breaking Bad that it became a conversation piece that people would want to see, so they could afford to spend millions on a TV show and make a profit, but for most cable shows, the name of the game was to get cheaper and cheaper in their production so that they could make a profit through cutting costs in a market with more and more competition. This only got worse the more "must-see TV" shows came out eating up what little audience was left and streaming services ate away at cable viewership (how many of you still even GET cable?)
Reality TV shows became omnipresent on TV in a great many channels like TLC, Discovery, and History channel because it costs damn near nothing to just find some people with personality disorders or shitty jobs or who swear the pyramids were made by aliens and film them doing crazy things all the time, so even if a show has bad ratings, it can still turn a profit off the bargain-basement advertising costs.
The switch to HDTV was in particular a death knell for a lot of channels - channels like History Channel were notable for being "World War 2 channel" for a long time because they could find stock footage of World War 2 for free, edit it together and make a voiceover, and BOOM, you have a show that fills a slot people will be interested in done for relative pennies. World War 2 footage, however, was not HD, so basically their entire lineup was completely thrown in the garbage (or actually went to the new, non-HD "military channel" because cable channels are dirt cheap to start up, causing the problem of oversaturation to start with), and stations needed to make whole new slates of television shows all at once instead of relying on syndication of older shows filling in most of the slots, which in turn heavily accelerated the push towards filling in slots with the cheapest shit they could film, which tended towards stuff like Pawn Stars or Deadliest Catch where they basically just send a camera crew out on a few boats and hope they can edit together footage to make a story that fills time out of it.
What I hate the most is them milking their legacy cred. People believe what they see because they trust the source. No matter how ridiculous it is, they assume 1.) the source is credible 2.) someone *equally* credible would call them out on their bullshit. Only that doesn't happen because anyone in a position to call them out is pulling the same stunt. And 3.) the viewer doesn't really care if they're being lied to because whether they believe it or not, it doesn't matter. They think they're a drop in the ocean so they may as well indulge themselves, fruitlessly.