Last November, when Impact Wrestling announced its new home on Destination America, the response was unanimous: What the hell is a Destination America? Is that a channel for RVs? Is it 24-hour marathons of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives? The following June, the channel also brought on Ring of Honor TV, giving it the general consensus #2 and 3 pro wrestling promotions in the United States on one network.
Here’s where things get weird.
Destination America finished up with ROH last week, and the company moved its programming to COMET. Starting in January, Impact Wrestling’s new home will be on POP TV, the artist formerly known as the TV Guide Channel. Where does that leave Destination America? With a complete rebranding built entirely around the channel’s massively successful but critically derided live exorcism. No, seriously.
Per The Observer, Destination America is rebranding as a “paranormal channel” five nights a week starting in January, then upping that to seven nights a week in September. Yes, that means live exorcisms where nothing happens every day. No word on what the channel’s new name will be, but I hope they go with Destination Afterlife. Destination Disappointment?
I’m not sure why they couldn’t keep wrestling and go paranormal. Lucha Underground has teleporting electric skeletons controlled by the living embodiment of death. Even the WWE version of ECW included a zombie when they went to the SCI Fi. We can’t have people with night vision cameras backstage at wrestling events, looking for Boo Dallas?
