As I recall back in 2003 when MythBusters started there were still some okay shows left but it went downhill quickly from there.
I haven’t been able to find a good list of Discovery schedules by year, that would make it clear when it became reality only.
The good shows from the 90s I remember was:
- Dinosaur! and When Dinosaurs Ruled with Bob Bakker
- Connections with James Burke
- Beyond 2000
- Time Team
- WW2 documentaries
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
In the 80s, if you got up really early, like 5 am, Discovery would sometimes just put a camera on a professor giving a lecture. It was pretty cool. I guess we have YouTube for that sort of thing now, but you even make a suggestion like that to a Discovery executive now and they’d probably try to murder you.