Animal Planet Bigfoot Marathon Tonight
Posted by: Craig Woolheater on September 3rd, 2011
Starting at 6 PM Central, Animal Planet is running an eleven hour Bigfoot Marathon.
The schedule for the marathon is as follows:
6:00 pm Best Evidence: Bigfoot (preview of this program at link)
7:00 pm Finding Bigfoot “Caught on Tape”
8:00 pm Finding Bigfoot “Alaska’s Bigfoot Island”
9:00 pm Finding Bigfoot “Swamp Ape”
10:00 pm Finding Bigfoot “Alaska’s Bigfoot Island”
11:00 pm Finding Bigfoot “Swamp Ape”
12:00 am Finding Bigfoot “Caught on Tape”
1:00 am Best Evidence: Bigfoot
2:00 am Finding Bigfoot “Caught on Tape”
3:00 am Finding Bigfoot “Alaska’s Bigfoot Island”
4:00 am Finding Bigfoot “Swamp Ape”
Co-founder of Cryptomundo in 2005.
I have appeared in or contributed to the following TV programs, documentaries and films:
OLN's Mysterious Encounters: "Caddo Critter", Southern Fried Bigfoot, Travel Channel's Weird Travels: "Bigfoot", History Channel's MonsterQuest: "Swamp Stalker", The Wild Man of the Navidad, Destination America's Monsters and Mysteries in America: Texas Terror - Lake Worth Monster, Animal Planet's Finding Bigfoot: Return to Boggy Creek and Beast of the Bayou.
While it was interesting to watch once…I’m not sure I’m going to follow it. There was too much drama, too much Animal Planet driven drama, and not enough on what really counted.
I was going through old shows I’ve collected over the years and I was reminded that this wasn’t the first time Animal Planet has thrown some sensationalistic nonsense at its viewers. Anyone remember the short lived show, Animal X, with the older guy narrating…now do you remember “My darlings?” ‘There are stranger things on heaven and earth, and you’ve just seen one of them…”
Yeah. That show was probably the pinnacle of hokey–they did have some good information on my favorite cryptids from time to time, but some of the outlandish theories (like for chupacabras), and some of the hokem of the show made me roll my eyes more than once an episode. That one, I had to sift out the accounts and usable information against the backdrop of the just plain goofy.
So, in retrospect, maybe Animal Planet hasn’t gone any further off the mark with Finding Bigfoot…we just can’t expect that they’ll really provide a documentary style format…they’re all about the drama and the ratings.
Unless we get the holy grail like they did with the giant squid…then MAYBE Animal Planet would do a show worthy of our criticism…if they could get the bid on it that is…