RE: It's funny because it's true...(2)

["Choo, Brian" <bchoo@museum.vic.gov.au>]

Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. wrote:
>Ugh. Seriously, this has a great potential for catastrophe. Because in order 
>to fill a 24 hr channel with >programming, you need filler. If you think that 
>we have insipid hack-job documentaries on now, wait until the >production 
>companies start making whole new series re-editing previous material to create 
>"new" shows to fill >the space.

Erm... hasn't this dystopian nightmare already come into fruition with "Dino 
Lab" (Discovery Channel, 2006) which relied almost entirely on mangled stock 
footage of When Dinosaurs Roamed America and Dinosaur Planet? Coelophysis 
standing in for Troodon... Vivid narrative descriptions of the three-horns of 
Triceratops set to visuals of Zuniceratops...

Joy

Brian

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