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"Weird or What?" (w/Bill Shatner) 2010-2012

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              Weird or What? w/William Shatner Copyright Discovery Channel and History Channel Canada 3 series, 10 episodes per, 48 mins. per episode. 2010-2012 The Discovery Channel and History Channel Canada.         In this series, we get to relish in all the shining glory  (or is he sweating hot-dog grease?)  that is William Shatner, as he encounters the outer limits of what we call "news." The  ever-opinionated, bloviated, silly-yet-charming and inquisitive Shatner, presents roughly three stories per episode that will surely have you wondering about the nature of our reality. Each of the stories gets a few educated guesses tossed at it by " sciencey-talking-head-types," who also do some "sciencey-type experiments" to promote-- or, demote leading theories.  While it treads a lot of the same ground as his current series, "The UneXplained," (it is ten years later, after all) it gives us more Shat', (if you're into that sort of thing) an