You are now in charge of the History Channel. What do you add, take away, or keep the same? Keep in mind...

You are now in charge of the History Channel. What do you add, take away, or keep the same? Keep in mind, you also need to turn a profit.

Reality shows get the axe and we make more docudramas. Shit like the Tudors but less sex and more informative. Take a cue from some popular youtubers too with more entry level historical series like extra credits that aren't very in depth but make the viewer feel smart.

>exchange the cheap media for expensive period pieces
>turn a profit

Yes. Is there a reality in your mind where a history based network can exist or is it just more rednecks with cameras pointed at them?

How about "Heil Honey I'm Home!" ? Sitcoms are cheap and entertaining, we'll just make those and ignore that silly history crap no one likes anyway.

I'm not defending reality TV content on History. I'm saying the whole reason they switched to reality TV was they that were hemorrhaging cash.

Turn the channel into the Netflix of documentary. High quality original content with no-name but talented young directors, no docu-drama, pay-per-view monthly. Blend today's geopolitic with history and geography. Ask for subsidise from the Gov. No ancient alien BS.

People would pay 10$/month if the quality is here.

Seems like this could work

Finally finance an authentic tv series about the finno-korean hyperwar with it's focus on the southern mediterranian so the Kingdom of Wewuz is going to play a major role

Modestly budgeted docu-drama series focusing on real history. We can have a French Revolution one, a Russian Revolution one (everyone'll feel smart for realizing that that Stalin guy will be a major player later on), an American government during Vietnam one, the English civil war. It'll be great.

Make long running, multiple season shows about all the threads reposted on Veeky Forums ad infinitum

keep some Reality Tv shows particularity Alone.
Bring back shows good Documentary.
Bring back modern Marvels.
Cover absolutely everything in History. and I mean almost everything.

Give pawn stars more screen time, but take away the thin veneer of "history".

remove ancient aliens
remove pawn stars
remove all conspiracy shit

start by covering popular history topics like ww1/ww2/Napoleonic wars/romans to attract viewers and then move forward from there

Have it become the Hitler Channel again?

no, but even that would be preferable over being the alien channel

remove ancient aliens, any show with "swamp, gold, monster, or ice" in its name. Return programming from the early 2000s, that still turned a profit. Reduce the airing of shows like "American Pickers and Pawn Stars." Add period dramas, hell add shit like Time Commanders...then we can roll out some of the better, more academic documentaries. Perhaps a series of documentaries that move from topic to topic and each episode is somehow related to the last, in order to increase watchers recognition.

>be a cable company
>why are so many people cord cutting?!
>impossible to know, but add more reality TV, that's what people want!
>let's raise their bill while we're at it!

Axe everything. Request govt subsidies for public education. Find struggling college grad directors and have them work for pennies. Make mostly hour-long documentaries covering very specific topics, but have them link together wherever possible. Give prime time to well-known topics like WWII, WWI, Vietnam, the Cold War, and so on. Reserve after-hours viewing for more specialist topics like the Eastern Roman Empire, 30 years war, >H>R>E
Also try and get a series going which explains the current world's geopolitics piece by piece, starting with the major players and spiraling outwards.

Basically have it be the Hitler channel as a cash cow, but try to diversify in terms of well-known topics at least a little bit, and use the cash from catering to plebs and beginners to fund viewing for autists like us.

You guys are missing out on how popular youtube streamers like extra history are.

Cut all that history crap no one likes and add more reality tv shows

I would make the entire schedule consist of John Green and Hank Green Nerdfighter history videos.

continue pandering to the mainstream in this country (uneducated, anti intellectual, and anti science) with more "History" about how the bible is true

I'd divide the programming into major old world blocs every two months

There'd be lots of stuff but the focus would be a given region

1/6 of the year the big focus is Sub Saharan Africa

1/6 Middle East and North Africa

1/6 South Asia and Greater India

1/6 Inner Asia and Siberia

1/6 Europe

1/6 China and all the Confucian world

Following year we'd get into the Americas and Oceania

Never liked the schizophrenic jumping between astronauts, Alfred the Great, and Sargon without any coherence or frame of reference in the span of a day

I think you'd lose a lot of viewers this way. What if the viewers don't care for Inner Asia and Siberia, and tune your channel out for atleast two months out of the year? What if during this two month period they decide just to not come back?

The idea is taking the early Hitler channel as a model

Yes most of the programming was about Onkel Adolf's breakfast habits but they regularly broke up big documentaries with miscellaneous things

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Axe all the pleb show except maybe vikings, pawn stars, and ancient aliens because of their viewer bases. Continue with the WW2 and vietnam in HD series and expand them. Bring back barbarian specials, enginering an empire, modern marvels, and american eats. Make new series of specials focusing on the ancient world in a more specific focus than previously on cool places like Petra, the greco-buddhist kingdom of india, Rome when it was a kingdom, the norman empires conquest of italy and the medditarean, and other less common cool topics. Have a tyrant week like shark week where its a week all about pol pot and hitler and mao.

>Axe all the pleb show

So basically cancel next to everything and come up with an entirely new lineup?

Just do the same but every show now needs to be about Hitler or Nazis.

I have no idea what the current program is.
Still ice road truckers?

Anyway, i'd keep the aliens guy, and WW2 stuff going.
I'd add a WW1 series.
Something about ancient Rome and Greek states
Something about Mesopotamia.
Something about China.
Try to shove as much medieval stuff as i can. Try to make it look cool with intrigue, wars n shit.

You guys want all these changes, but haven't the viewers proven what they wanted by watching reality shit?