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http://pilgrimstudios.com/casting/jousting/

Follow on from Knights of Mayhem ? that was pretty cool

this is on 10PM tonight (with multiple re-airings after)

anyone watch? I thought it was pretty good...

I hate History Channel. I don't understand what most of the shows have to do with history anymore. I know jousting is a historical sport, but still just a stupid reality show.

Thy game is over.

I might be totally off base, but I'm guessing that The History Channels "history related" shows aren't very highly rated. My guess is that their stupid reality shows are the only things anybody watches on that channel.

And for the record, I agree with you. I hate all that stupid crap. Alligator People, Shipping Wars, Swamp People, Logger Dudes, etc, etc, etc, etc, but unfortunately that's the only swill that people seem to watch nowadays.

When 20,000 people tune in to something about WWII, but 1 million watch Bayou Billionaires, what do you think the powers that be are going to focus on.

And by the way, I assume that many of the shows I listed are on different networks, but I don't care enough to actually look them up. I do know that The History Channel has a ton of these non history reality shows though.

so, anyone actually watch it? or are y'all just talkin' out your ass?

I watched it. Sort of OK. I'll probably watch another episode before deciding if I like it or not. Of course, by then I'll get sucked in to the "drama" I suspect will take place. OK, but wouldn't be my first choice for entertainment. Of course, I'm never really choosy when I watch something on TV.

I didn't watch the show, but one of the previews for it bothered me.

The jouster said "Jousting may be the only sport that has no defense"

OK, first, bowling and golf have no defense. I guess you could say they aren't sports, but there's no defense. Second, jousters carry shields! A shield is a textbook definition of DEFENSE!

As for History and their programming, the main History Channel is basically slipping down the MTV path. MTV looks nothing like it did 30 years ago, and has next to nothing to do with music. MTV started shifting their more music driven programming to MTV 2 and then the MTV video specific channels and VH1 Classic.

History has shifted much of it's historical programming to H2, which until recently was called History International. Of course H2 isn't completely free of the main channel's plague. H2 will be the home of Top Guns, which is a spin-off of History's Top Shot. Top Guns will be focusing on the fire arms, giving a more in depth look at them. So in that case, it's more historical than Top Shot, which is just the competition.

H2 is also the new home of Modern Marvels, and stuff like How The States Got Their Shapes has been moved there as well.

Caught the rerun last night, can't say I was very drawn in, I'll give it another shot but I don't think the lead guy has what it takes to pull this off. The joust itself was pretty boring too, but presumably that should improve over time. Hopefully some interesting characters start standing out soon.

I'm not sure why, but it irritated the hell out of me the way they said "grand guard" over and over.

I caught this last night. Better than Knights of Mayhem IMO since it's a competition show rather than a basic reality show. I find it strange that two channels come out with completely different shows about jousting so close to each other.

I agree, I'm sure that's why. Last thing I remember watching was WWII in HD actually, which was awesome.

getting caught up now
having read the S.M. Stirling's emberverse books this interests me as there was jousting combat in some of the books. Although in the books they weren't using blunted lances at a specific target, they were fighting to kill and trying to get their lance past the other's shield

this show has potential for some entertainment