Discovery channel 'illegal activity' programs

agnes · 13 Aug 2013 at 21:13

So I'm watching the discovery channel and the adverts come on and a trailer comes on for a new series regarding drugs...

It's a program that has a host with all matters of drug dealers right up until the big guns. All the dealers and what have you are masked. Now my question is, why is no one reporting this or at least informing the police about there stuff.

Surely as a citizen it's their duty to inform the authorities of such things. Not make a show of it and turn a blind eye?

Hyburnate · 13 Aug 2013 at 21:19

BBC did a program on drugs the other day.

agnes · 13 Aug 2013 at 21:22

I think my problem is that I rarely watch tv lol

Mynight · 13 Aug 2013 at 21:34

Don't they have laws to protect annoymous sources?

Also the liklyhood is that if the journalist can find them they're probally already on some watch list somewhere because they're clearly not good at hiding

chameleon · 13 Aug 2013 at 21:47

An awful lot of this sensationalist cheap is "recreated", in other words fake. Discovery and to a much greater degree TLC stopped being an informative or edumakashonul channel a long time ago. They just go for the wow factor these days.
There is an awful lot of formulaic crap out there now. I mean just how many ways can they film people digging up gold, catching fish, chopping wood etc? It's all the same.
(I'm a BIG fan of Deadliest Catch, probably the only programme worth watching out of the whole lot. But it's still painfully set up and staged.)

arknor · 13 Aug 2013 at 21:54

it will be fake like moon shiners etc

Kosmiche · 13 Aug 2013 at 21:57

Why dont they save the seals in wildlife programs when the killer whales eat them

Guest2 · 13 Aug 2013 at 22:21

C4 did a good show on some illegal and some legal drugs the other night

Legally high: True stories

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/legally-high/4od

Mr Joshua · 13 Aug 2013 at 22:45

chameleon said:
I mean just how many ways can they film people digging up gold, catching fish

I don't care as long as they keep it up, I find something incredibly appealing about Gold Rush!

The "documentary" channels have become a bit of a laughing stock, I used to enjoy Axe Men at least the first season anyway and then it became far too fake. If it wasn't for Gold Rush (Gold Divers too) and Deadliest Catch I would ditch that part of the Sky package.

Hyburnate · 13 Aug 2013 at 22:47

Gold Rush: Alaska?

Not sure if it's fake or not, but I don't care, I like it.

Edrof · 13 Aug 2013 at 22:49

It's this newish wave of augmented reality stuff. Just like American Guns and Sons of Guns. The fakeness fast becomes a turn off to the discerning veiwer.

Hyburnate · 13 Aug 2013 at 22:53

Edrof said:
It's this newish wave of augmented reality stuff. Just like American Guns and Sons of Guns. The fakeness fast becomes a turn off to the discerning veiwer.

American Guns is ****

I did watch Sons of Guns, for the guns though however some of their stuff really was ****.

pooley · 13 Aug 2013 at 22:54

Don't even watch the Discovery channel anymore i can't stand all this staged rubbish..

arknor · 13 Aug 2013 at 22:55

Hyburnate said:
Gold Rush: Alaska?

Not sure if it's fake or not, but I don't care, I like it.

not sure about that one but there's another one that was

set in a jungle but I can't remember what it was called.

moon shiners was definitely fake though although the guys do live there

Mr Joshua · 13 Aug 2013 at 22:56

Hyburnate said:
Gold Rush: Alaska?

Not sure if it's fake or not, but I don't care, I like it.

Same here, part of me thinks with all the screw ups that it might be fake but another part thinks maybe Todd is really that inept

.

The clean outs always seem quite large which is another point that crosses my mind but as you say, I don't care, I just like to watch the gold and the big machines!

And if I ever win the lottery I will definitely be buying a Cat D11, beast!

Mr Joshua · 13 Aug 2013 at 22:57

arknor said:
set in a jungle but I can't remember what it was called.

Ah yes, I forgot about that one and it did appear very fake.

arknor · 13 Aug 2013 at 23:03

Mr Joshua said:
Ah yes, I forgot about that one and it did appear very fake.

the one where they got robbed lol fake as hell!

watch the preview.. no one is that retarded

httk · 14 Aug 2013 at 00:33

arknor said:
watch the preview.. no one is that retarded

They are Americans, right?!

The gold in the video looks like a painted chocolate bar.

agnes · 14 Aug 2013 at 08:46

Yea, I agree the channel is a mess these days. Like most in the documentary section. None of it is really educational. I just like switching it on from time to time after work to watch Mythbusters, which is now fast becoming tiresome.

Hence I don't watch TV. I only watch films these days. Adverts drive me up the wall. Had I lived on my own right now, I wouldn't bother with a TV subscription.