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Topic: Discovery Channel

Greta Van Susteren and Bill O'Reilly (BILLY FARRELL/Patrick McMullan/Getty Images/D Dipasupil/FilmMagic/Salon)

Greta asks Bill on her show about pets

Shira Tarlo
Joanna Gaines and Chip Gaines (AP/Brian Ach)

Chip and Joanna want to fix you next

Melanie McFarland
A view of a great white shark. (Discovery Channel)

"Shark Week" vs. Science?

Melanie McFarland
(AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)

shark weak

Charlie May
(BBC America)

Life on "Planet Earth II"

Melanie McFarland
(Mogens Trolle/Shutterstock)

Here comes Shark Week

Lindsay Abrams
"Deadliest Catch" (Discovery Channel)

"Deadliest catch"? Nope

Nick Rahaim
(Discovery Channel)

Discovery to quit docufiction

Joanna Rothkopf
(Discovery Channel)

"Eaten Alive" fails

Joanna Rothkopf
(Discovery Channel)

The man who wants to be eaten

Lindsay Abrams
(Discovery Channel)

"Eaten Alive" crosses the line

Joanna Rothkopf
(<a href='url to photographer'>Sergey Uryadnikov</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Shark Week is a bottom feeder

Joanna Rothkopf

Neil Drumming
(Discovery/Jason Elias)

Neil Drumming

Willa Paskin
(Discovery/Nick Lorden)

The Amish aren't a punchline!

David George
(Screengrab from Episode clip via Discovery Channel)

Prachi Gupta
A still from "Amish Mafia"

There is no Amish mafia!

David George
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