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shadowkatThis is Day #21 of 30 Days of Television Challenge
The prompt is A favorite documentary, science or nature series or mini-series (can't be a reality show) (the prompt was not my idea, it was atpo omn - the only one who gave suggestions. )
I don't know, I'm not a huge doc fan and I'm drawing a blank on nature series.
Because there's been an increasingly annoying trend towards obscure 1950s and 60s television series that no one can watch now or would want to. (No offense but most of those shows were horribly racist, sexist, and dated.) The television series has to be post 1980s and available either on a streaming service,cable or network/broadcast television. I know you have watched television since the 1980s. Stop picking shows from your childhoods.
Mine? Ken Burns Country Music Documentary - which is among the few that I watched and enjoyed all the way through - much to my considerable surprise. (I realized I enjoyed country music far more than I thought.)
The prompt is A favorite documentary, science or nature series or mini-series (can't be a reality show) (the prompt was not my idea, it was atpo omn - the only one who gave suggestions. )
I don't know, I'm not a huge doc fan and I'm drawing a blank on nature series.
Because there's been an increasingly annoying trend towards obscure 1950s and 60s television series that no one can watch now or would want to. (No offense but most of those shows were horribly racist, sexist, and dated.) The television series has to be post 1980s and available either on a streaming service,cable or network/broadcast television. I know you have watched television since the 1980s. Stop picking shows from your childhoods.
Mine? Ken Burns Country Music Documentary - which is among the few that I watched and enjoyed all the way through - much to my considerable surprise. (I realized I enjoyed country music far more than I thought.)
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Date: 2020-10-18 01:10 am (UTC)As a sideline/cross-promotion, Fowler would also bring animals to the set of The Tonight Show that would scare the shit out of Johnny Carson...
https://youtu.be/-txG2ng97MU
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Date: 2020-10-18 01:22 am (UTC)However - was it in the 1980s - now? And can you watch it on streaming, broadcast, or cable? If not? Select another one.
There's an alarming trend of people picking shows from their childhoods in the 1950s and 60s.
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Date: 2020-10-18 01:29 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2020-10-18 05:32 am (UTC)https://youtu.be/2eDKoXaJhPs
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Date: 2020-10-18 02:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-10-18 01:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-10-18 03:39 am (UTC)I know you all have watched television post 1970s. I need to make this harder for you.
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Date: 2020-10-18 03:52 am (UTC)I don't have cable or streaming, so I don't know what can or can't be seen that way. If YouTube doesn't work for you, that's okay.
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Date: 2020-10-18 04:04 am (UTC)You have PBS, right?
There's tons of documentaries on Broadcast Television. The one I posted is from PBS - on broadcast television. I don't get why people are posting shows that left the airways ages ago and you can only find on some streaming service. I mean Mutual of Omaha was succeeded by Blue Planet, Nature, and various others. All of which can be found on broadcast television. Mutual of Omaha can no longer be found on Broadcast TV.
Also I specifically stated I did not want a reality series - HDTV does reality shows.
I don't know why you have to post something from the 1980s. Haven't you watched any documentaries on broadcast television post 1980s? I know you have - you've mentioned it.
What is it with old television series, films, songs, etc? Is this a way to revisit the bygone days of youth or nostalgia? I mean at first I thought oh cool, but to an objective observer you all seem to have decided nothing worth viewing, listening too, etc happened after the 1970s. It's not just you, if it was just one person - I'd handwave it - but it's everyone and in every single meme. It's as if you are competing with each other to see how old and obscure you can get. I mean no one picked Twilight Zone or the Outer Limits - instead you pick shows that are obscure things that are hard to find.
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Date: 2020-10-18 04:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-10-18 02:07 pm (UTC)There's over 20 years of television to choose from in the 21st century.
Hey, my journal my rules. If you want post television shows from your bygone youth - you can do it your own journals.
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Date: 2020-10-18 01:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-10-18 03:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-10-18 02:55 am (UTC)Nature is pretty great. I just watched the episodes about cats.
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Date: 2020-10-18 03:40 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2020-10-18 08:27 am (UTC)Of course, they haven't checked absolutely every cat in the world, now have they? There's probably some mutant feline out there somewhere that is bi-vocal!
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Date: 2020-10-18 08:23 am (UTC)However, my first choice is still running on PBS, and is still very worth viewing. That would be the venerable NOVA science series.
My close second choice, also on PBS, is...
(will wait to see if someone else picks it)
... and is very, very current!
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Date: 2020-10-18 02:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-10-18 08:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-10-18 10:10 pm (UTC)I don't know as I have any favorite documentary series, though I've seen good ones along the way. Frontline certainly continues to do necessary work on a number of topics, but it's a long running series compared to something like South Pacific or last year's Our Planet on Netflix which are short-run series. I really enjoy most nature specials. I've got My Octopus Teacher still in my queue along with another I don't remember.
There was the remake of Cosmos from a few years ago that I quite enjoyed as well. It might be on Disney+ now, I'm not sure.
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Date: 2020-10-19 01:01 am (UTC)So is Point of View on PBS. And American Masters.
Our Planet is pretty good. Haven't seen the new Cosmos yet - but that's another one they could pick.
I'm more of a nature special doc fan. I don't tend to like the documentary genre that much.
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Date: 2020-10-19 09:58 am (UTC)