How to perk up an exhausted entertainment genre? A little cannibalism, it turns out, does the trick.
We are not, alas, talking about reality TV or the morning shows, though some bone-munching would certainly make either more interesting. We’re talking about dinosaurs.
Back in the early 1990s, thanks largely to the unlikely combination of “Jurassic Park” and “Barney & Friends,” dinosaur fever swept the land, especially afflicting the young. But after a while the sight of 8-year-olds rattling off the names of all known sauropods went from being cute to being annoying, and dinomania — the nature programs, the animated shows and movies, the museum exhibitions — lost some of its cachet.
“Jurassic Fight Club,” which arrives on Tuesday on History, makes dinosaurs entertaining again, thanks to convincing computer-generated beasts and an over-the-top frontman. The premise of the series is to use paleontological and other evidence to imagine what it must have been like when various kinds of dinosaurs did battle, and the opening fight on the card, as it were, is a doozy.
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