South Park lampoons Thor, the History Channel, and for-profit colleges all at once in its latest Thanksgiving special.
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The History Channel earlier this year ran a riveting documentary mini-series (retelevised Oct. 1) called World War II in Color.
Just ask the networks who are increasingly losing viewers to cable networks like AMC and even The History Channel.
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Several episodes of the History Channel show Secret Worlds include female hosts, especially those relating to the ancient fertile crescent and Anatolian civilizations.
They will be viewed on DoD and VA channels, cable stations such as The History Channel and Lifetime, and in movie theaters across the country.
Instead, turn on Pawn Stars on the History Channel or Oprah or even a replay of the 1978 match-up between the Cowboys and the Redskins.
So he wasn't looking to beat anyone over the head with "The Bible" -- his latest score, for the breakaway hit on the History Channel.
Taylor, who worked with mortars and served tours in Afghanistan and Kuwait, had dreamed being in the Corps since watching the History Channel as a boy.
This is one of the reasons we created "The Bible, " a 10-part miniseries premiering March 3 on the History Channel that dramatizes key stories from Scriptures.
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One of the archaeologists at Bad Archaeology lambastes the History Channel for its series Ancient Aliens and treating its nonsense as though it were fact.
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The sorts of cultural niches that this channel would occupy the arts, sciences, history and philosophy are increasingly inhabited by small commercial channels, such as Artsworld or The History Channel.
So why, then, is The Bible, a new miniseries on The History Channel whose series finale is this Easter Sunday, racking up so much attention from the media?
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What was interesting was that I got this piece of news (about the earthquake) yesterday just after I had finished watching the program 'Biblical disasters' on the history channel.
The History Channel, whose depiction of Satan in its TV miniseries "The Bible" left viewers claiming that it resembled the president, wasn't in attendance, likely because of that incident, Obama said.
Much as we might pine for more historical documentaries on the History Channel, the fact of the matter is that most historical documentaries are boring: Narrator narrates over photos, paintings and or video.
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Sunday night, though, the History channel had the highest-rated scripted drama on cable for the year, for the beginning of a story in which only one main character rises from the dead, and that not until nearly the end.
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The History Channel is not here.
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His newly restored distillery at Mount Vernon (you can watch the History Channel video George Washington's Liquid Gold) is now touted as "The Gateway to the American Whiskey Trail, " a trip that winds mostly through the historic, large distilleries of Kentucky and Tennessee.
The Georgetown University English graduate was a story consultant on the 2009 documentary "American Harmony, " about competitive barbershop quartet singing, and produced the recent Discovery Channel program "Under Siege, " about terrorism and smuggling across the U.S.-Canada border as well the History Channel series "Madhouse, " on modified race-car drivers in North Carolina.
It may be that he has a tightly-drafted American-style contract which enforces a period of gardening leave if he leaves to work for another broadcaster - S4C would argue that they're hardly a competition for the History Channel, but it's likely the lawyers may well be fighting it out as we speak.
"Swamp People" is the popular History Channel TV series that chronicles the lives of alligator hunters.
To make his point, he has handed out white papers on the bungled border, pressed the issue with numerous Georgia politicians and appeared on a History Channel program called "How the States Got Their Shapes, " where he hit a golf ball from Huckabee Lane into the Tennessee River to show viewers how close it is.
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Fox News rounded out 2009 with the highest ratings in the channel's 13-year history.
In 1998, after a stint in the U.S. Army, Mr. Schneider joined a re-enactment cavalry group and appeared in several History Channel documentaries playing the fellow.
It is also one of the very few places that could plausibly field a successor to the venerable M113 troop carrier, which the Military Channel recently designated as the most important infantry vehicle in history.
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Writer and researcher Jone Johnson Lewis, writing on the website Women's History, has told of female resistance fighters on the Channel Islands wearing men's clothes to disguise themselves while posting flyers stirring opposition to German occupation.
Wielding a black Magic Marker, he charted the big bang of channel expansion and audience fragmentation that has propelled television history so far, from the age of the three networks, each with a mass audience, to the hundreds of cable channels, each serving a niche audience twenty-four-hour news, food, sports, weather, music and on to the dawning age of Internet video, bringing channels by the tens of thousands.
He channel-hops through art history, picking out the most grotesque moments.
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But history counsels caution, too: Britain's only existing high-speed line, from London to the Channel Tunnel, has never come close to achieving its projected passenger numbers.
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