PetHead36

The Travel Channel used to be so nice with educational programs on TRAVELLING. Nowadays all they show is World Poker Tour, Get Packing, Shows on Cruise Ships, and reruns of Las Vegas programs. Last week I saw a great program in which a group of guys rafted down the Yukon River in Alaska; however it was on at one in the morning as if they were trying to hide it. What ever happened to good programming such as Lonely Planet?

Dan

I agree! I'm sick of Vegas and all of the shows associated with it.

connette

I have been saying the same thing for awhile now. I wish there were more travel channels too. Look how many sports channels there are. Sometimes I find Lonely Planet on PBS or one other cable channels we get, but I really have to search for it.

jaggirl

I signed up for a certain cable service just so I could get the travel channel and I was extremely disappointed with it. They should call it the Las Vegas continuous commercial channel. I didn't see one show on travel in Europe or anywhere else I wanted to go.

Judyrem

ME! I don't even watch it anymore! BUT DH loves poker and watches that whenever it is on...which is always!

MikeT

Just for a reality check, I looked at this week's prime time schedule and only 1 night features poker and Vegas.

http://travel.discovery.com/schedule...sp?channel=TRV

Diana

AAAAck! It's hideous! I never watch it anymore.

My husband went so far as to e-mail them a lengthy tome as to what shows he enjoyed and why he misses them and how he is so unhappy that they changed their format, and he got back a snippy e-mail that MANY people love the new format and shows.

Oh well. I guess they can do without the two of us...

TopMan

I suppose it is all about revenue and what generates revenue. Obviously a lot of people ARe watching poker, Vegas, etc., or they wouldn't be showing it.

And I'm sorry that some people feel that any e-mail that tells the truth should be automatically labeled as "snippy."

Sunnyboy

I never watch that channel anymore and don't even check the "guide" to see whats on. All they have are two basic shows: 1) people sitting around playing cards (about as interesting as watching a traffic light change from red to green) and 2) the ten most crowded beach destinations in the world. I get my travel fix elsewhere.

tully

They should change the name, it has nothing to do with travel anymore. Have to go to PBS to track down Globe Trekker or to Fine Living channel to actually get travel shows.

redshoe

Hate all the gambling shows but I do so love Samantha Brown's great hotels.

reneeinva

I love Samantha Brown too, and I am very embarassed to admit that I sometimes watch "Get Packing" on purpose. Now that I think about it, I have no idea why that show is even on the Travel Channel, but I still watch it. I need help.

I am tired of the poker shows. One day, this too shall pass.

FainaAgain

Agree with PetHead. Soon I'll go down to watching real world

GoTravel

I miss that idiot Alby Mangels who was always trying to get himself, his girlfriend, and his camera crew killed while wearing those teeny little tiny shorts.

They always showed shots of him bending over in those horrible little skimpy loincloth shorts. Eeeuuuwww.

He got into the middle of a guerilla war, got charged by a Rhino, got in a horrible wreck and put his girlfriend in the hospital for months.

I also miss Ian who would get drunk all the time with some obscure tribe off some obscure root drink in some obscure third world country.

Diana

TopMan, since you didn't see the e-mail, perhaps you could not make a judgment call on whether or not it was "snippy."

The tone was short and unfriendly - I never said the e-mail was inaccurate or untruthful.

btw, MY response to you is snippy while still managing to be truthful.

Jacqueline1212

Hate it too and used to enjoy it. Not a Vegas fan anyway and everything seems to be a repeat from way long ago.

travelinandgolfin

Count me in as one of the disgruntled.

I actually never watch the channel anymore. Just set the DVR for Great Hotels, and that's about it.

PetHead36

I must also add, remember that show Exotic Islands? That show was wonderful. I have to admit I do like the show road trip, but absolutely hate made in america. It is just a chance for a washed up actor to get his name into th lime light again.

Diana

Oh GoTravel. You are so funny. My husband used to tell me I watched Albie and his "trail of traveling bimbos" show with his ratty little dogs because I loved those shorts. (I was very sad when one of his dogs died, though.)

I was beginning to think that I dreamed up that show it was so bizarre sometimes.

Remember the time he got on that mud road and it took him DAYS to get across like 40 miles? Remember that time he stopped to visit a "lady friend" and there was a dinner with all kinds of animals running around. (Seemed like maybe hallucinogenic drugs appeared to be involved.)

Yes, Albie and his teeny shorts. What a fond memory...

IAN was my all time favorite too! I think he was drinking kava in some ceremony in New Guinea or something. Then there was that show where he did the cow running and was running along the backs of cattle lined up side by side. Or the sheep's eyeballs somewhere in the Himalayans or other environs unknown.

Ah yes, those were the days!!!

GoTravel

No Diana you didn't dream it up. It WAS bizzare. Watching Alby was like watching a train wreck; horrifying but you couldn't take your eyes off it.

All the blondes looked alike. He got older and they all stayed the same age.

I couldn't figure out why people kept traveling with him. It always ended up catastrophic for them (or their animals or their belongings, etc).