Does anyone else think Discovery channels line up is getting worse over the years? IMO, the major decline started when they started constantly airing American chopper years ago. This was followed by several other motorcycle shows as well as several car modification shows, some of which were really poor. Now I have nothing against these really and I used to watch American chopper but it did get old and they ended up saturating the channel with it.

Next came the murder shows. Doco after doco of young girls murdered, violent attacks, rape/murders, etc. I think that some shows on forenscis, etc are good (even though forensics is not a pure scien either) but it got to the point where there was murder on most of the time. Theyve calmed it down a bit now (by creating another channel solely devoted to it...) but there is still alot of it on there. Most of it wasn;t even good cases, just some guy who murdered his wife and they busted him cos he took out a 500k life insurance on her the week before... There are stilla fair few of these but not so many now

Then came the fishing shows. deadliest catch, lobster men, tuna wranglers, plus at least 3 others! I do like the odd one of these but 6 different fish shows is OTT.

Now, its the turn of the ghost shows. This bullcrap is not science (no matter how many infrared cameras and other instruments they wheel out). There are 3 of these now at last count.

There's also other stuff like Destroyed in seconds, etc which isnt really documentary material if you ask me

I dunno, I thought Discovery was supposed to be a science documentary channel and it definitely used to be more of one but now they just play the above stuff over and over along with endless reruns of man vs wild & mythbusters (also good but not endless repeats). There is a lack of new quality scientific docos.

I know they can do whatever they want and theyre probably got a bigger audience now they play this dumbed down stuff more but it annoys me at least. Don't bother blurting out the crap about if you dont like it dont watch it, I know all that. I just used to have a much higher opinion of the channel.

Anyone else? Is Discovery HD just as bad?

/rant