There was a show on last year called Alpha dogs. These guys train service dogs, i.e, police/military/drug/bomb dogs. I liked it a lot. It was targeted to a specific audience who in the big picture, is relatively small. I liked the show and wish it would have stayed 100% about the dogs, which for me would have been great, but again, that would have lessened the viewers. In order to add entertainment value, they used the relationship crap between the father and son, the building of a bar, motorcycles, and used a band, etc. etc. That was all to add to the entertainment value and widen the audience. No offense to them but I didn't really care for all that, just get back to the dogs.

The Dog Whisperer is that way as well. The show is about correcting certain dog behaviors but the 'idiocy' and entertainment effort make it hard to watch at times. EWO