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G4 canceling gaming programming

Oct 29, 2012#1

Ravenpoe

http://kotaku.com/5955278/crisis-at-g4-studios-gaming-shows-will-be-cancelled-source-says

G4 is ending AOTS and X-Play, and will be discontinuing all gaming centric programming. Supposedly they are rebranding to be centered on "lifestyle of the modern male" which I assume means they'll just copy SpikeTV.

I still miss zdtv/TechTV

Oct 29, 2012#2

GasBandit

I thought they did that a long time ago.

Oct 29, 2012#3

Ravenpoe

GasBandit said:
I thought they did that a long time ago.

Now they don't have anything to interrupt their marathons of COPS and Cheaters.

Oct 29, 2012#4

figmentPez

Ravenpoe said:
I still miss zdtv/TechTV

Go watch some Revision3 and feel better.

Oct 29, 2012#5

Frank

I hear they did an X-Play retrospective and forgot that the show existed long before the G-4 buyout of TechTV.

Oct 29, 2012#6

Ravenpoe

Frank said:
I hear they did an X-Play retrospective and forgot that the show existed long before the G-4 buyout of TechTV.

Sessler was even the only person to survive the techTV makeover. He hosted the show back when it was called.... shit, what was it called. Extended Play, I think?

Oct 29, 2012#7

Frank

That's not entirely true. Morgan Webb joined the show as cohost when it was rebranded as X-Play from Extended Play (Sessler had been solo host of Extended Play for a couple of years after departure of his last cohost shortly after the rebranding of Gamespot TV to Extended Play) and that was a year or so before the G-4 buyout of TechTV. Bloody show started in 1998.

Oct 29, 2012#8

Ravenpoe

Frank said:
That's not entirely true. Morgan Webb joined the show as cohost when it was rebranded as X-Play from Extended Play (Sessler had been solo host of Extended Play for a couple of years after departure of his last cohost shortly after the rebranding of Gamespot TV to Extended Play) and that was a year or so before the G-4 buyout of TechTV. Bloody show started in 1998.

Oh yeah, I remember that. Morgan actually started as an intern on The Screensavers.

Oct 29, 2012#9

Covar

figmentPez said:
Go watch some Revision3 and feel better.

Or TWiT.

Oct 29, 2012#10

AshburnerX

Yeah, I stopped caring about G4 when Adam Sesslar stopped having any kind of noticeable effect on the quality of G4. Once he left, I was done... though to be fair, I lost most of my interest when they cancelled Portal.

Oct 30, 2012#11

sixpackshaker

Damn I still miss Screen Savers. Especially Morgan... :unibrow:

Oct 30, 2012#12

figmentPez

sixpackshaker said:
Damn I still miss Screen Savers. Especially Morgan...

I'll take Jackie Talbott and Cali Lewis over Ms. Webb. Heck, beyond my love for Rev3, I think Dodger Leigh has a much better understanding of the gaming world than Morgan Webb does. Though my all time love for gaming news still goes out to Kate Welch, I wish she were still making She Geek.

Oct 30, 2012#13

GasBandit

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