the downward spiral of G4 TV
G4 is cancelling Filter and G4tv.com
the link above gives a brief description of what has happened to one of my favorite channels over the years… i’d like to think of myself as an original, faithful watcher… for those who don’t know, G4 started as ZDTV, a technology-oriented channel run by the news company Ziff-Davis (who also happens to publish PCMag)… it then became TechTV, which was just a joy to watch… a few years ago TechTV merged with G4, a channel that was devoted entirely to video games… i was skeptical about this move, as i watched TechTV specifically for the “techie” type shows: FreshGear, Extended Play, Call for Help, The Screen Savers, even Spy School and Wired for Sex. the G4 merger made it more game-oriented, which caused most of those shows to die (and Extended Play becoming X-Play, which i didn’t particularly like as much as the former… but, it introduced me to Morgan Webb, who is now on my top 5 hottest women)
now it looks like G4 is looking to get rid of the last of the faithful (myself included) by making it more like SpikeTV… they even have episodes of the Man Show on G4 now… that is fucking retarded. if i wanted to watch the Man Show, i’ll watch SpikeTV, dammit i came to ZD-Tech-G4TV to stimulate my technical side… now the channel is full of crap shows like reruns of FastLane and some other show about import cars…
i think over the last few months the only shows i really watched was Icons, Filter, and X-Play… i don’t really see Icons anymore, and Filter just got cancelled, leaving me with 1 show left… on top of that, they used to show X-Play at 8 PM and 11 PM pacific, so i could catch it right after the 10 o’clock news… now, there’s only the 8 PM showing… i heard Call for Help was brought back, possibly to salvage what it could (and they even brought back Leo Lepore!), but i really think this channel is going to tank…
i am glad to see the TechTV hosts now doing some great stuff tho’… Kevin Rose has digg and theBroken, Sumi Das is on CNN now, and Leo Lepore has TWiT… i wonder whatever happened to Chris Parillo??
in any case, i’m probably not reaching many people with this post, but i just had to say it for the sake of saying it… i hope someone wises up and resurrects TechTV, or even brings back ZDTV (hint, hint Ziff-Davis!), and brings those great shows back.
it’s too bad they cancelled Filter tho’, on top of the interesting countdowns, Diane Mizota was pretty hot as well.
such is life i suppose. i really hope someone steps up and retakes or creates a channel for people like me (once again!)
-m