[antiRepublicrat]

I used to watch mostly History channel

Speaking of such channels, what happened to the old-time documentary where you had a live narrator who took you to places and calmly and clearly told you the stories and facts, with an occasional diagram to help things along? Now the disembodied narrator with the hyped-up or overly-dramatic voice tries to add as much drama as possible and waste our time with long computer animations.

"One day our sun will go nova and WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!" Dude, chill out. That's, like, four billion years from now.

[dfwgator]

Speaking of such channels, what happened to the old-time documentary where you had a live narrator who took you to places and calmly and clearly told you the stories and facts, with an occasional diagram to help things along?

Yep, I got spoiled as a kid watching "The World At War" with Laurence Olivier doing the narration, it is impossible to top what he did.

[mysterio]

Speaking of such channels, what happened to the old-time documentary where you had a live narrator who took you to places and calmly and clearly told you the stories and facts, with an occasional diagram to help things along?

Same thing that happened to MTV. The History channel has already started running reality shows.

Just seems like the documentaries they do run are either about fictional space aliens or barbecue.

Oh, and future disasters. All ending with "it's not a matter of 'if'...."