I know exactly what you mean about the idiocy on the board. Nowadays I limit myself to actively participating in 3, maybe 4 threads a day because all I see are the same who-would-you-fuck threads, girl a vs. girl b threads, and dumbassity in general. Lately I've been mostly just logging on to check the happenings in the moderators section, and that's it.
I'll have to talk to Petra about that History Channel series, but I'm pretty sure the budget only allows for American Idol.