Programming
Programming covers a wide range of periods and topics, while similar topics are often organized into themed weeks or daily marathons. It is seen in more than eighty million households. Subjects include mythical creatures, monsters, UFOs, aliens, truck drivers, alligator hunters, pawn stores, antiques and collectible "pickers", religions, disaster scenarios, and apocalyptic "after man" scenarios; a number of these documentaries were narrated by Edward Herrmann when the channel ran them. Some of the aired programs compare contemporary culture and technology with the past, while other programs focus on subjects such as conspiracy theories, religious interpretation, UFO speculation, and reality television. In particular, History has aired a number of films on Nostradamus, as well as a special series on doomsday that promulgates various popular 2012 theories, including films such as Decoding the Past (2005–2007), 2012, End of Days (2006), Last Days on Earth (2006), Seven Signs of the Apocalypse (2007), and Nostradamus 2012 (2008). The channel now mostly features mainstream reality TV shows with stretched relations to historical events of any kind.
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“If there is a price to pay for the privilege of spending the early years of child rearing in the driver’s seat, it is our reluctance, our inability, to tolerate being demoted to the backseat. Spurred by our success in programming our children during the preschool years, we may find it difficult to forgo in later states the level of control that once afforded us so much satisfaction.”
—Melinda M. Marshall (20th century)