10 Bullsh*t Documentaries That Aren't Worth Your Time

1. Anything On The Discovery Channel

Lord, do we love Shark Week. We live for Shark Week. They're so powerful, and yet, majestic. And scary. The Discovery Channel do a pretty good line in sensationalist documentaries the whole year round, in fact, with expert interviews and chilling eyewitness testimony introducing us to new parts of the animal kingdom we never knew we were supposed to fear, but are now on the constant look out whenever we leave the house. We tell you, we're never gonna stop looking to the sky if we ever go on holiday to Australia - the threat of a drop bear attack is too terrifying to imagine. Of course, part of the reasons the documentaries Discovery Channel (and its sister network Animal Planet) are so sensational is because they're frequently full of bullsh*t. The last couple of years have seen Shark Week get it in the neck for supposed true life stories like 2013's Megalodon: The Monster Shark That Lives (where they hired actors to play marine biologists on a hunt for the prehistoric giant shark that's been extinct for millennia, coupled with CGI-heavy footage of a megalodon "attack") and this year's Shark Of Darkness: Wrath Of Submarine, which is similarly fictional film which is nevertheless presented as fact. Perhaps the worst offender of all, however, was Animal Planet's Mermaids: The Body Found, which supposedly revealed evidence that mermaids existed. Which it did with more staged interviews, some poor prosthetics and a bunch of crummy computer animated fish people. None of these documentaries are particularly believable €“ unless you're somebody who still falls for the "gullible's been taken out of the dictionary" trick - but the fact that the channels pretend they're real (or else don't make clear they're fake), showing them amongst a bunch of actual documentaries? Pretty shady, if you ask us. The spirit of Ernest B Schoedsack and Merian C Cooper is alive and well...