I've watched the decline of the history channel over the years, and this is clearly a desperate attempt to save a dying channel. The channel used to show programming actually about historical events, but as TV grew more and more, with more networks, more entertainment, the ratings started to dip, and the history channel started trying to keep up by playing more "cool" programming. I think this is a mistake. The plague anti-intellectualism of the early to mid 2000s is dying out. It's no longer cool to be stupid-now, even teenagers recognize things like MTV for the useless garbage that it is. The history channel should go back to hour long episodes of historical events- specific events such as assassinations, or wars, or an series on various empires and Kingdoms. Maybe each day of the week can have a 8 PM special for each continent- say Tuesday is Africa, and one week's episode focuses on the Mali empire. Friday is Asia, and one Friday might be Korea in the stone age. The history channel needs a renaissance of traditionalism. A pure, sophisticated, education based programming without flash, without idiot social media, greasy pawn conartists, or hour long shows about cutting down trees. No separate channel for military history, or world history, but one, universally respected history channel. People should not be congratulated for stupidity, they should be shamed for it. Trying to appeal to people through pop quality nonsense is exactly why the history channel doesn't have any respect. People should feel ignorant when they learn something new, that is the very definition of learning- to make oneself no longer ignorant about something. That is the only way they will ever attract people back to the channel, and the only way they will be respectable again. Garbage shows are shows of the stupid, and thus, shows of the less. Making yourself less will never earn respect or credibility. Make yourself more.