So really, any Americans here that have watched PBS? The problem is money. History Channel makes more money showing the crap it runs today than the material they displayed ten years ago. Sad but true. That is what capitalism does (not that I am a communist/socialist myself). You want to make money, so you have to abandon the few history nerds that watched your channel and move your viewer base to the general public, the plebeians, for the lack of a better word.

I would have done the same. Why should I care about people who want to learn history by watching TV? Let them read books! That is where the real information is. A ten hour documentary cannot teach as much as a 100-page book. So what I would do, being the owner of the channel, is attempt to make more money. And creating sensational, gory, Hollywood-style history is what brings people in. And then those deluded persons believe they are actually "learning" by watching an "educational" "documentary".