What has happened to the History Channel?

The other night, I noticed that the History Channel had a two hour show called the Seven Signs of the Apocalypse. I thought that it might be on the Book of Revelations, going over the historical context oh how the book was written and why it was included in the Holy Bible. They had run two excellent documentaries on Banned Books of the Bible, so I thought this would be worth checking out.

What a mistake. Two hours of crap. First, they purported to tell what the seven signs were and how science has answers. For example, the oceans would turn to blood. Then we got an overview of the phenomenon of Red Tide with some scientists explaining it. Very sensationalised via editing, I am sure we did not get the whole story. The worst was on global warning, some scientist attached to polar ice studies was ranting and raving about the seas flooding, at one point we get a wild eyed view of these guy's face that makes him look like a mad prophet of doom.

And intermixed with these minimalist scientific explanation, we got the guys who wrote the Left Behind books going on and on, pushing their end of the world crap. The Book of Revelation is taken super serious, no discussion of how it came to be. The only legitimate Biblical scholar was a professor of New Testament Studies from a seminary, who was given a few brief comments.

It was such a bunch of nonsense, what the hell has happened to the History Channel? The Book of Revelation was controversies from the get go. There was a strong disagreement that it should even be included in the Bible. Martin Luther and John Calvin both had doubts on it validity. Why was this not told, not these sensational nonsense that was put on the air.

History Channel used to have good shows like Civil War Journal, the Real West, Mail Call...now we get Ice Road Truckers and Ax Men. We used to have solid documentaries on the War of 1812, the Mexican War, and Sherman's march to the sea. Now we get pseudoscience like UFO Files and this show on the seven signs.

Like A&E which used to show A Touch of Frost, Lovejoy, Inspector Morse, and now shows Living Gotti, History Channel is going down hill showing reality TV crap instead of real history shows. Why, isn't there enough crap on TV already?

Oh well.