To commemorate this change of focus, they can show the history of the Shark Jump.

Sometimes you jump the shark and other times it jumps you.

history isn't something that happened in the past- history is always unfolding.

I think the late historian Will Durant would agree with you. History isn't just about "important people doing stuff", either.

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks. Historians are pessimists because they ignore the banks for the river.

Unfortunately, the History channel is turning into the woo-woo channel too much of the time for my tastes.