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"Life Unscripted": a new direction

Perhaps due to poor ratings from a narrow target audience, TLC began to explore new avenues starting in the mid '90s and increasingly round 2000. Less and less material that most would deem to be truly educational in nature was featured on the channel. This was probably due to the better ratings achieved by these less educational shows, as TLC brought in more viewers who were less interested in the channel's more traditional content. "Ready Set Learn", the network's children's block, was slowly reduced through the years as the network deliberately redirected viewers towards the full-day line-up of children's programming on Discovery Kids until completely evaporating in late 2008, while Cable in the Classroom programming, meant for recording by teachers, had completely disappeared by the early 2000s.

In 1998 the channel began to distance itself from its original name "The Learning Channel", and instead began to advertise itself only as "TLC".

During the period of 1999–2001 there was a huge shift in programming, with most programming geared towards reality-drama and interior design shows. The huge success of shows like Trading Spaces, Junkyard Wars, A Wedding Story and A Baby Story exemplified this new shift in programming towards more mass-appeal shows.

This came at a time when Discovery itself was overhauling much of its own programming, introducing shows like American Chopper (which Discovery moved to TLC for a stint). Much of the old, more educationally focused programming can still be found occasionally dispersed amongst other channels owned by Discovery Communications. Most programming today is geared towards reality-based drama or interests such as home design, emergency room dramas, other medical dramas, extreme weather, law enforcement, dating and human interest programs. The target audience for TLC has been young women 18-34, suburban, and middle class.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TLC_(TV_channel)

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First off!

A Baby Story is the poo, makes me cry every single episode. Plus there is always a little learning there. Now that I'm looking at the shows, there is a show called A Conception Story......not sure how they are pulling that off.

Strange sex is definitely definitely weird. So is Sister Wives, freakin weird.

Say Yes to the Dress is by far one of my favorite TV shows right now :)

Ever watch My Strange Addiction? VERY interesting. There are people who are addicted to eating the inside of couch cushions, chalk, french fries, everything. Its so weird.

I wish they would cancel 8 bagillion kids and counting already. Id rather watch Pantha San and all his kids than those religious weirdos.

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wait... i can get on tv for just being addicted to french fries?!? where do i sign up?

They took her to doctors and did all these tests on her brain and it turns out she is legit addicted. Same reactions as drugs and alcohol. The bad thing is its extremely unhealthy and its the only thing in her freezer.

for srs. its just a shitload of bags of frozen french fries. Its also all she feeds her daughter: NOT GOOD.

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They took her to doctors and did all these tests on her brain and it turns out she is legit addicted. Same reactions as drugs and alcohol. The bad thing is its extremely unhealthy and its the only thing in her freezer.

for srs. its just a pooload of bags of frozen french fries. Its also all she feeds her daughter: NOT GOOD.

my wife told me about a study that was done a while back that showed that women's brains react to chocolate in the exact same way. identical reactions to alcohol abusers and drug addicts.

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