Man vs TV Channel

It’s Friday night, you’ve finished work and kicked your wife into her bed. Time to watch TV! But what do you want to watch? There are so many channels with so many TV shows these days that it is hard to make a decision if you don’t have a favourite channel or show.

The Discovery channel is one of my favourite TV channels, featuring shows that are not only interesting to watch, but also contain enough humour to prevent them from getting boring. I don’t watch TV that often, perhaps one or two times a week, but whenever I do I instantly notice that their range of series has increased a lot over the past few months.

You’d think that more is better, but in this case they have multiple TV series with a similar subject. For example, first there was American Chopper, then came American Hotrod. Now we have American Chopper, American Hotrod, Overhaulin’, and so on. Another example is the Ink series, first there was Miami Ink, now there’s also LA Ink and London Ink.

For somebody who is new to Discovery channel, this can be a little overwhelming. Imagine you want to view a survival show, such as Ultimate Survival (also known as Man vs. Wild). You actually have to choose between three shows, Ultimate Survival, Survivorman and another one, of which I can’t remember the name. Ofcourse each show has a different approach, but they all share the same subject, and in some cases it’s very hard to spot the differences.

On top of that, many TV shows are repeated throughout the week, meaning that you’ll be watching the same type of shows over and over again. Luckily this doesn’t mean that every show isn’t worth watching, Mythbusters and Ultimate Survival are probably my favourite shows.

We’ll just have to wait and see what the future brings us, perhaps there will be 4 Mythbusters shows, 25 survival shows and 84 Ink series. Whatever happens, as long as I can keep watching the walrus moustache I’m happy.