*Sigh*.........So it's finally over, after already hearing about the new rebranding and reading an article about upcoming changes I saw this coming months ago. It seems like just about every channel that starts out with a nice, interesting niche always devolves into a general lifestyle channel no matter what the theme. There's been so many different channels of so many different varieties that despite the radically different themes, all arrive at the same general destination. Now with The Science Channel's marathon of "That's Gotta Hurt" they shamefully join the ranks. TSC was such a great network that I thought was generating decent ratings, but now here they are resorting to the same type of gory filth content that's on every other channel these days. If all networks resort to one similar standard of programming there's going to be nothing but over-saturation, when ratings go down people will remember why they made niche channels in the first place. The old gag used to be, 200 channels and there's nothing on. Now it's going to be, 200 channels and they are all the same. I sadly await, yet anticipate the day this channel pulls a full TLC and stops calling itself the The Science Channel altogether. You do remember TLC used to be an educational network called "The Learning Channel" right?
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