Open Letter to Discovery Channel Canada

Umm . . . just a comment on how far down the Discovery Channel has come.

Please describe to me how "Canada's Worst Handyman" fits in with a "discovery" theme. Please tell me how "Canada's Worst Driver" fits in with a "discovery" theme. Please tell me how "Cash Cab" fits in with a "discovery' theme.

Upon looking, randomly, at your schedule for today, I see the following offerings: "Big Foot: The Definitive Guide." This is science? Followed by "Mythbusters." Entertaining, perhaps, but every single day of the week with the occasional marathon?

Then there's Cash Cab, followed why How It's Made. I wouldn't have a quibble with How It's Made, except you're still running episodes that were made in the 90s. Also, most of them are on such scintillating topics such as "How Ice Skates are made" or "How Traffic Cones are Made." Who on earth could possibly be interested in how traffic cones are made? Yet most of the episodes are about these obscure items.

Then, Daily Planet. Again, occasionally interesting, but not three times a day, every day. Then we go to two back-to-back episodes of How it's Made, then Canada's worst Handyman again. One hour after that there's Daily Planet again, then -- you guessed it -- Canada's Worst Handyman.

This is what I pay my cable provider for? Since your promising inception, your programming has descended into a roster of eight completely irrelevant products, one slightly interesting one and occasionally one not even worth becoming a doodle on a paper napkin, let alone going into production.

Take solace in that you are far from alone; A&E has become the Dog the Bounty Hunter/CSI channel, National Geographic (that's a joke) has become the Dog Whisperer channel, the Food Network has become the Iron Chef/Top Chef channel and "The Learning Channel" has become the "Learning About Human Freaks" channel.

I cancelled A&E and haven't regretted it at all. You're next up.

The so-called "500 Channel Universe" is indeed a 500-channel universe; a 500-channel universe of dreck.

Give me the old days of the twelve-channel universe. Hey, there's a program, that's a program! Explain why most of the content of cable television has been reduced to garbage. I'll be glued to my seat for that one.