Hello, Nikki.
Before the 2012 thing came around, any and all doomsday documentaries were mostly on the Discovery Channel, I remember the Discovery Channel having a "destructive evening" every other night. Some of their shows consisted of the fall of the dinosaurs and some of their shows consisted of theoretical doomsday's and prophecies, predictions, so on.
In 1999 the Discovery Channel held either one or two hours of a documentary of the year 2000, some of which claimed that Nostradamus predicted that the year 2000 was the end of the world and of course many of the other claims.
How ever now it's the History Channel broadcasting such television shows where as the Discovery Channel now mainly broadcasts other shows such as Storm Chasers, Myth Busters, so on.
The History Channel now consists of shows such as the Nostradamus Effect, Ten Ways to Destroy the Earth, Countdown to Doomsday and many others that are similar.
In a simple word; No, the History Channel (to my knowledge) didn't broadcast doomsday documentaries back then, but the Discovery Channel did broadcast them.
If my memory stays true to me; I remember that the Discovery Channel didn't over-play the broadcasts so when they did broadcast the doomsday broadcasts, their ratings sky-rocketed.
And now the History Channel is doing the same thing.
Nikki (guest) 29 Nov 2009 18:30
