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G4 in need of reform.
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For the record, I think G4 is trash and wish they hadn't gutted techtv. Fortunately all the good techtv people do their own podcasts now.
If I remember correctly, TechTV was actually on the up-and-up when it was merged with G4, who really just dragged it down into the abyss.
Goddamn it, I thought I was over this :x
http://dl.tv/
http://www.crankygeeks.com/ (not from techtv, but techtv people make guest appearances occasionally)
http://www.twit.tv/
http://revision3.com/diggnation/
There are probably others that I missed, but they reference each other a lot
Also X-Play really tries too hard with their humor. and that Adam Sessler guy always looks like he still has the hanger in his shirt.
Current G4 TV is OK. I don't find it any better or worse than TechTV, although I would like to see TSS return. I tend not to watch X-Play (I didn't watch it on TechTV either) because I generally don't agree with their reviews and I find the humor to be stupid. Just review the damn game, don't make jokes...
I do like the fact that G4 has Arrested Development and Ninja Warrior...
That's _every_ channel though. How many channels have more than 2 or 3 hours of good programming? G4 has what...30 minutes? An hour?
Extended Play was at least watchable:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ry-cLUr91QY
X-Play is like watching 12 year olds bicker about why their favorite generic character in a generic game is best.
I don't think there's anything that could save this channel, and I thought it was being given to E!, who was going to scrap it.
It looks like it fell into the "It has to be hip! It has to be now!"
The only problem was that their idea of "hip" and "now" expired over 10 years ago.
FreddyD that's the best line I've seen all day.
Well, I'm guessing with after paying all 6 of their Tv Personalities and their 7 studio crew members, they don't really have much money for anything else.
So... G4 has a wide variety of tech-related programming like TechTV's AudioFile, Big Thinkers, Call for Help, Eye Drops, Fresh Gear, Invent This, Robot Wars, The Screen Savers, Silicon Spin, Spy School, Titans of Tech, Tomorrow's World, etc? I could watch ZDTV/TechTV all day. I can't sit through 30 minutes of G4... unless it happens to be a show that was cannibalized from the TechTV merger.
G4 is trying to become Spike TV with a pinch of tech. That doesn't interest me in the least.
"you need a new option for the poll: candy. "
?
You shut your goddamn mouth. You shut it now.
I've been known to watch an episode of COPS or two in my day. Something about watching other people's misery makes me happy. I guess that's why I also like Intervention on A&E. More specifically I like betting on the person's chances of staying in rehab and/or staying sober afterward.
The people at G4 answer for their crimes in that thread.
More like:
Fresh Gear and Extended Play were my favorite shows.
Can anyone explain to me what the Spock market was all about? I saw it several times in previews a year or two back and, to my understanding, they shrank the episodes to half size and filled the borders with ads.
These make me happy. Leo "Speaking of buttucks" (TWIT 99)
Alex Albrecht on his new video podcast, The Totally Rad Show. All about video games.
The weird thing is though, if you listen to him talk about games on Diggnation, he sounds like he's been gaming for maybe a year.
The borders weren't ads. The right side had a useless running tally of various cliches like "Dramatic Kirk Pauses," the bottom had the scrolling preteen prattle that they have on other shows, too, and the Spock Market was on the right. It seems to be a stock market simulation using Star Trek related abbreviations. Equally useless. I never really liked the original series, but having it shrunk to half screen didn't help, and now they're doing it with TNG. Thank God they still keep some of the Trek timeslots full screen.
I'll admit that in TechTV's last few months, I kind of started drifting away from the station. I stopped watching X-Play cause of their goofy emphasis on making jokes rather than reviewing games, and I had begun to lose interest in watching The Screensavers and was rarely home to be able to catch Call for Help. Besides that, I didn't care for much else on the station.
Still, I couldn't help but despise G4 for ruining what was two great shows (TSS and CfH), an entire channel, and their attempt to try and bring in the "Woo! I love technology! Let's use it to make beer and tits!" crowd. I think what pissed me off the most was a year later when they had forcefully drug the TechTV staff over to Los Angeles only to fire everyone but Sessler, Webb, Rose, and those other three guys. All this for what? Reruns of COPS, The Man Show, Arrested Development (great show, but so out of place on that hellhole of a channel), and a half-assed attempt at a late-night [Adult Swim]-esqe block? What the fuck?
What the fuck indeed...
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What the hell. G4 US could at least show The Lab.
It's not like they have to do anything extra, just copy the damn digital tapes.
Apparently they began showing (the new) Call for Help after a while but had it in a really REALLY bad timeslot so that didn't last long.
They would have gotten more out of it if they had run the two channels separately rather than gutting it, killing the good shows, and perverting the few decent ones that were left.
What they did is like coke merging with budweiser, then putting coke in the bottles instead of beer. It just doesn't make any sense...
Seriously. If you want to see me seethe with hatred, just put up a G4 topic. Works every time.
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