So anyone who has followed me for a little while on Twitter will know my feelings about what the History Channel (Wikipedia page), and to a lesser but still important extent Discovery Channel, has become, and I am not the only one (but I can't find a relevant link right now so please post some in the comments if you come across them). A channel that used to have mostly shows that were based on true history now has shows called Ancient Aliens and MonsterQuest that contain very little to no actual evidence except for maybe one piece of evidence that we "can't explain", yet. It also contains shows that seem to have very little to do with true history such as Ice Road Truckers, or all of the equally "relevant" IRT shows. I will admit that sometimes I will take a guilty pleasure in watching one or two of those shows but it has been so long since I have regularly tuned in to History Channel that when my channel guide showed Vietnam in HD (Wikipedia page which as of the time of writing looks pretty new), which must have been a new show, I was caught off guard but didn't stop because I figured that was one of those series you had to see from the start. Also the History Channel owns what used to be known as History International (now H2) and that used to show more shows like what History Channel used to show but has now become nothing more than more of the same. It was also why I was glad to see this week's South Park make fun of what the History Channel has become (relevant clips below, 2 of which are below the fold, and the full episode can be found here). Now I should state that there are good shows on History/H2 but to me it seems that they are trying to get away from history and more on to entertainment which kind of leads too a little bit of false advertising.
I also should say that I am disappointed in the lack of mention of similar criticism on the Wikipedia page for the History Channel.
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