[ozzymandus]

They’re apparently hard up for material. I watched that boring trucker show just to see if the loud-mouthed guy fell through the ice, but he didn’t.

[wbill]

I watched that boring trucker show

I did too, but more out of a sense of morbid fascination.

I'm from the north, buddy of mine is, as well. We watched it together....some of the stuff was laugh-out-loud funny. Like the producers trying to manufacture drama over a little snow blowing over the road. "THIS IS HORRIBLE! WHITE OUT CONDITIONS!! DANGER DANGER DANGER!!!"

Buddy is from Wisconsin. His comment was "I drove to work most days, in white-out conditions just like that.". I (being from Maine) replied "Yup, wonder what they'd do if it was really bad?"

I'll grant that trying to fix a breakdown in 20 below zero is no fun (been there, done that)....but it's what a whole lot of people cope with for months at a time. I don't see them making a special on Mainers...."Next week on 'Mainiacs', Eben and Garth try to get the Skidder started with a frigged up choke. WBill gets the fire going to thaw out the pipes in the basement, while the rest of the family takes their lives into their hands to drive to work and school on ice-covered snowy roads."

Never happen.

[Vroomfondel]

The show that cured me of the History channel was Earth's Black Hole, in which they (with a straight face) compare the infamous Bermuda Triangle to a black hole. It includes such amazingly deep comparisons as pointing out that a black hole produces gravity waves whereas the Bermuda Triangle produces waves in water just like a black hole!