Deregulation is so bad.
When cable television exploded in the 1980's there were a dozen of channels ,each niche marketed to a specific audience.whether it was golf or police procedurals or history.Unfortunately the Dregulation of the television market in the late 1980's turned them all into commercial channels that were forced to competer with one another for the best ratings and soon their original missions were all but forgotten.Discovery Channel {origininally established to broadcast science documentaries},now airs fake "documanteries'about paranormal and pseudoscientific topics.Naturally the abandonment of its original mission to be scientific and educational extends to its relics of sciencedocumentaries as well.
At one time the highlights of programming on Discovery channel was Shark week,when it aired nothing but documentaries about real sharks and their biology.Then in 2013 the channel broadcasts a ridiculous pseudo-documentary called Megalodon:The Monster shark lives,which in 2014 was followed by Megalodon:The new evisence.Both programmes featured vague and scary and eerie footage,poorly lit shots,computer graphic reconstructions,actors billed as scientists,and many re enactments of an alleged family's encounter with a live Charcharocle megalodon while on a cruise.
ONLY in the final few seconds of the credits of either show did there appear a disclaimer that the programme was entirely fiction.
Count on Discovery Channel to come out with similar programmes for Shark week each year.AFTER all ,it is NOT on the air a PUBLIC SERVICE,as are PBS and the BBC,so it has no obligation to truth or reality.Thanks to its deregulation,its only mission is to attract viewers and garner ratings for its advertisers,no matter how low it must stoop to do so.