Wait, you mean the "All WW2, all the time" channel or do you mean the one with gun shows, Modern Marvels, etc? Frankly, I always thought the History Channel was a bit of a joke. It was way better in the past than it is now, but that's damning with faint praise. The only time the History Channel really surprised me was when it was running a BBC production (Simon Schama's History of Britain). The rest of the time it was fairly ho-hum.