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With its biggest programming announcement, the launch of a Keith Olbermann primetime show, made yesterday, Current TV held an anticlimactic upfront presentation today, at which it unveiled other new series and specials. Here is the cable network’s upcoming slate:
- One-hour special Man Vs. Earth to air in April: explorer Sam Branson investigates the cutting-edge tactics scientists are using not only to predict, but prevent natural disasters, from diverting hurricanes to quelling volcanoes.
- Five-episode original series 50 Greatest Documentaries to premiere in 3Q: Counts down the best documentaries over the last 30 years, paired with full-length presentations of many of the featured films.
- Five-episode original series Headlines That Shocked America to premiere in 3Q: Looks back at the biggest news events of the past twenty years.
- Six-episode original series Smoke Jumpers to premiere in 4Q: About Missoula’s elite team – the Special Forces of wildfire fighting — jumping fires by day and relaxing as bros when the flames die down.
The four join previously announced new series Bar Carma and 4th and Forever, the acquired This American Life and returning Vanguard.
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Sounds like a winner. lol. Any other television station would be out of business, good thing Gore has hundreds of millions from his global warming scam, to subsidize the channel.
Meanwhile Rummy is out peddling his memoirs based on his fantastical “Iraq Has WMDs!” scam.
Only difference – Gore hasn’t murdered 4,000+ American soldiers.
Rummy did that? Odd, I thought every democrat voted for the war and isn’t it Obama who just tripled the size of the idiocy in AF? Keep on drinking the Kool-Aid — it’s working for you.
About half of the Democrats in the Senate, and about 2/3rds in the House voted against the invasion of Iraq.
Why is it that when a person on the internet makes some laughably belligerent inaccuracy that would have taken 10 seconds to look up, it’s a conservative 9 times out of 10?
And of course that doesn’t even begin to explore your idiocy regarding the fact that the knock here against Rummy is that they all lied about WMD. So even if all the Democrats voted for the war (which you so moronically thought was true) that wouldn’t even mean anything other than the fact that they were duped like the rest of us.
Every Demcrat of merit. And they funded it– and have been — for years — Keep drinking the Kool-Aid.
Nice dodge on Obama trippling a pointless war in AF.
YAWN.
When are they going to realize that “The Rotten Tomatoes” show was the best thing they had going??
I don’t actually watch this channel but I sometimes flip by it. Never seems to be anything interesting showing. As bad as the just announced programming sounds, it looks to be a vast improvement over the current programing. It’s really a tremendous waste of bandwith on my satellite.
Current TV has gone downhill in the last six months. Max and Jason still up is no longer on. InfoMania has gone to hell. The whole network is heading towards mediocrity.
Max and Jason had some interesting segments but were the most painfully awkward presenters. Cringe-worthy. Really.
The user generated programming was a great concept, unfortunately between the blatant liberal agenda and the complete lack of interest from the fly over states to watch something that isn’t beaten into them by multi-million dollar market campaigns, this network never stood a chance. Too bad, there was some really interesting stuff on there a couple years back. It’s like a really good web site that you easily forget about but check once every couple months.
Current is an interesting channel, not always good,but interesting. Vanguard is a first class doc series. They had the Rotten Tomatoes show, best movie review show never seen. Why the heck they want to bring Edward R Olbermann on board is odd. They should be a quirky channel with some puter geek shows, bring Dvorack and a few others on who know what they are talking about etc. KO will not help the channel, other than get rid of all that extra cash. When I grow up I want to have a cable channel with only what I want…
The network began as a cutting-edge idea, something you can flip through and watch short interesting shows. The network went from being refreshing to horrendous.
We’ve had AC current and DC current for well over a hundred years, thanks to Westinghouse and Edison.
Now, there’s a new one: DOA current, thanks to Algore.
He’s a genius manbearpig, isn’t he?
Yikes. They should have left it with the Olbermann announcement. This makes me less likely to tune in.
The best thing Current TV’s ever done was show those great Nick Broomfield documentaries: “Kurt and Courtney,” “Aileen: Life and Death of a Killer,” and “Biggie and Tupac.” Man, those flicks are pretty damn crazy.
Also, it’s nice to see the commenters from Drudge still hang out here.
What the heck happened to Infomania? That was such a bright, fun show, and now it’s a total and complete trainwreck.
The loss of Sarah Haskins hurt big time, but now with Conor gone, the show is unwatchable. The laugh track experiment in December was the final nail in the coffin.
Who has the energy to watch Current after the mess they made out of a great show.
Bring back SUPERNEWS!
I love the right wing gnomes who pop up on an entertainment biz website. Keep selling that (insert talking point here.) Climate change denial, Obama’s a socialist, Reagans a saint, Jews own Hollywood, guns are people too, blah blah blah. I hope you at least get paid to shout at the wind.
Interesting that the RW forgets that all experts agree, Olbermann was the major force in Branding ESPN, FAUX Sports, MicroSoft/ComCast. I do believe they’re frightened(which is what RW does Bestest)that Olbermann will do it again.