Discovery+ - Literally nothing involving educational programming.

[Marissa Moira]

Man, here I was hoping that I could stream new documentaries for hours on end which is what I would originally watch Discovery Channel for, but nope.



Literally the most educational thing on there is Good Eats and Alton just makes new cooking episodes for his youtube channel without the corporate fuckery involved.

All I wanted was new documentaries on lesser known wildlife and ancient civilizations.

There's also a ton of lost media stuff relating to the early days of Discovery Channel from animated bumpers, to idents, to entire shows just vanished. None of that is archived on here either.

 

[Conan the Cylon]

Curiosity Stream is probably more what you're looking for.

 

[Marissa Moira]

Curiosity Stream is probably more what you're looking for.

I thought they were going to be bought out and just grafted on to a larger company's service. I mean Discovery+ has the same people working on it no?

 

[Pickle Dick]

the streaming service bubble can pop anytime now

 

[Conan the Cylon]

I thought they were going to be bought out and just grafted on to a larger company's service. I mean Discovery+ has the same people working on it no?

Last I heard they went public with no plans for current CEO (who founded Discovery but no longer works with them) to step down or make any changes.

 

[Marissa Moira]

Last I heard they went public with no plans for current CEO (who founded Discovery but no longer works with them) to step down or make any changes.

Oh ok, so there is a Discovery connection but I didn't realize it was a defunct one.

 

[Rusty Crab]

the fuck does literally any of this have to do with 'discovery'.

 

[Conan the Cylon]

Oh ok, so there is a Discovery connection but I didn't realize it was a defunct one.

Yep, this is his own separate project after retirement from Discovery. Can confirm Curiosity Stream has some good shit.

 

[ShortBusDriver]

Discovery and History seem to have licensed a lot of their shows out to Quest

It's an over-the-air station, at least around here and shows stuff from both networks mostly from 2008 - 2014 but once in a while they'll have something older

Most of the time it's just the nonsense stuff like Cajun Pawn Stars and Ice Road Truckers but sometimes you'll catch the great Engineering An Empire episodes and just be bummed how much both of these networks turned into steaming shit.

The really great stuff from The History Channel's heyday around 2005 - 2009 doesn't seem to air at all anywhere. Stuff like Ancient Discoveries, The Dark Ages mini series, or two of my favorite Discovery Channel shows Doing DaVinci and Treasure Quest.

 

[The Shadow]

How many shows does it have about ghosts though?

 

[Nguyen Van Phuoc]

the fuck does literally any of this have to do with 'discovery'.

Discovery owns a fuck ton of channels, including HGTV, Food Network, TLC, Travel Channel, and the Oprah Winfrey Network among others. A lot of these came from Discovery buying out another company called Scripps, which owns Food Network, HGTV, Cooking Channel, DIY Network, and Travel Channel.

 

[Sonic Sez]

Oh yet another streaming service, only this time, I get to watch whatever shit TLC or Discovery Channel thinks is educational.

Shitty shows aside, having all these streaming services at once is getting ridiculous. At this rate, it's becoming the problems people had with cable all over again. The point you made with more obscure shows completely absent from Discovery+ is a valid criticism I have with other streaming services like it. In Discovery's case, who knows how many hours of content across tons of networks are possibly lost to time to make way for land whales and home improvement shows. It's a sad sight to see.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

How much do these assholes want per month?

 

[Sonic Sez]

How much do these assholes want per month?

$4.99 with ads or ad free for $6.99
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/02/dis...ervice-in-january-for-4point99-per-month.html

 

[Inventor of the Telephone]

I'm glad that I cannot recognize a single one of those shows. Just reviewing their covers feels lobotamatic.

 

[whatever I feel like]

At least you get exclusive Battlebots episodes.

I'm gonna have to steal all that shit.

 

[MysticMisty]

The cracks started to show around 2004 I want to say. That was when I saw my dad had put on a dubious program that he and my mom were watching. It quickly went from about how a landslide caused a locally massive tsunami in an Alaskan bay in the 50's to how a volcanic eruption will cause one of the Canary Islands to split in half and collapse, and send a massive wave across the Atlantic that will destroy the east coast. Complete with shitty CGI cities being destroyed by a thousand+ foot wave and a scientist saying that people on the east coast should run for high ground if they hear about an eruption in the Canary Islands. This is more or less physically impossible, but the program still aired without disclaimers.

The absolute last straw was a "documentary" about opening ta new "tomb" discovered in the Valley of the Kings. This was around 2006 or so, and the "documentary" some months or a year later, well after the opened it up and found that it was basically just a storage cache. In particular the program was about opening a sealed coffin that turned out to be empty. All of this was major news back when it happened, so I thought the program would be about how they go about opening the tomb/artifacts/coffin and how they preserve it as it's prepared to open. Nope, it was 59 minutes of going "is there a new mummy in the coffin?!?!?!?!" and the last minute going "oh yeah it was finally opened on this date and only had supplies in it". I found it incredibly deceptive since the ads made it sound like there'd actually be something substantial in the program, and never tuned into Discovery again.

 

[Rand /pol/]

This only somewhat related but the thing I always hated about documentaries is it's impossible to find torrents for most of them.

 

[Les Morfalous]

....The really great stuff from The History Channel's heyday around 2005 - 2009 doesn't seem to air at all anywhere. ......

There is a limit to how much you can milk the "Ancient aliens help the Nazis build flying saucers, or did they?" plot.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

$4.99 with ads or ad free for $6.99
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/02/dis...ervice-in-january-for-4point99-per-month.html

Paying for it at all should be ad free.