Bye Bye Discovery Health

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Is anyone as upset as I am about Oprah taking over Discovery Health to make her own network? It's not happening until late 2009, but I don't know what I am going to do when it is gone. :crying2:

http://corporate.discovery.com/news/press/08q1/announcement_0115.html

Specializes in OB, M/S, HH, Medical Imaging RN.

Am I wrong, isn't it still going to be the Discovery Health Network? Just owned by Oprah?

I haven't seen anything yet that Oprah hasn't done well. There's bound to be more of Dr.Oz and the like. I'm sick of all the "multiples" shows on the DHC. I welcome the change. Guess I'm in the minority? :rolleyes:

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There are several shows they've had over the years that have replayed many times, that I have loved to watch.

One of my favorites is about Kenadie, the Canadian girl with primordial dwarfism. There have also been several shows over the years about Ashley, who is also Canadian and has progeria. Last I checked, she's still living at 17. And there have been updates on the Hensel twins, who say, "We don't have two heads. We are two people who happen to be stuck together" and recently got a driver's license! The state of Minnesota had never issued a DL to conjoined twins and weren't quite sure what to do, but since their parents have raised them as separate people, they were issued two licenses with one head in each picture.

p.s. Their mom's a small town ER nurse.

They also have a show about sexual addiction that is very good, and have done a series of programs about people who are in various stages of sex change. One of them features "Scott, who was born Caroline, one of three sisters from an Iowa family" and when he held his his HS graduation picture, I nearly fell off the couch because I went to high school with him! I had no idea that this girl suffered such incredible private torment. I e-mailed him through Classmates.com and one thing I remember saying is, "Admitting to yourself who you really are can be difficult under the best of circumstances."

I never watch those Dr. Oz programs. zzzzzzzzzz

They broadcasted some cooking and lifestyle programs for a very short time but they appear to have been cancelled.

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Not from what the press release says....it looks like a few of the shows will be shown on other channels, but for the most part it is going to be all Oprah's new programming

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I just woke up. Does Oprah finally rule the earth? lol!

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Specializes in LDRP.

:hlk: Oprah irritates the poo out of me--doesnt matter what she does anymore.

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I litterally shed a tear when I read this. I love Discovery Health Channel. Mystery Dx, Dr.G, Medical Incredible, ....

It has definately lost its focus in past months. If I seen one more " feel sorry for me, I took super powerful drugs, and didn't care about the concequences, indangered by life and babies lives so I could feel special about myself " show. I will gag. :bugeyes:

Can you tell I don't have kids, and don't believe in infertility tx.

Be happy with life, not everything has to give birth to be special.

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A doctor that I work for was featured on Mystery Diagnosis with a patient that we still see. it was cool seeing them on TV.

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IMHO Oprah is a dangerous individual and if she is planning on keeping her channel health oriented, except it's health according to Oprah and "friends"...well a true waste of a channel it will be. Maybe it can be that nutjob Dr. Phil 24/7...won't that be wonderfully nauseating. Glad I don't waste my money on cable TV.

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I litterally shed a tear when I read this. I love Discovery Health Channel. Mystery Dx, Dr.G, Medical Incredible, ....

It has definately lost its focus in past months. If I seen one more " feel sorry for me, I took super powerful drugs, and didn't care about the concequences, indangered by life and babies lives so I could feel special about myself " show. I will gag. :bugeyes:

Can you tell I don't have kids, and don't believe in infertility tx.

Be happy with life, not everything has to give birth to be special.

I've known a lot of people who used fertility treatments, and NOBODY had more than twins. The largest number had single births - or no baby at all. Chances are, you know people who used them and they just never told you.

Those quintuplet/sextuplet programs have gotten really old. If you've seen one, you've seen them all. And what about the Van Houten sextuplets of Michigan, who will never be the focus of any reality show because all of the children are disabled, two of them very profoundly? That's not "cute" although the children are definitely loved.

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haha! very true, i'm sick of all the shows about babies and families with 16 kids. :zzzzz

they're up to 18:dncgbby: kids now!!

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Specializes in OB, M/S, HH, Medical Imaging RN.
they're up to 18:dncgbby: kids now!!

they are nuts :bugeyes: i understand they are all home schooled. how do they plan to send all those children to college. are they going to open their own university next?

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Those Duggars make me think of those polygamous families in Utah, although I realize the kids all have the same mom and dad.My sister put it this way: "You just know at least one of those kids is gay." Imagine the shock when THAT will be revealed (if that is indeed the case).

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