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G4-TechTV still sucks, and it's getting worse

I've been ranting about this since the merger was announced, but the clowns at Comcast continue to kill TechTV and dumb it down to a network for teenage idiots that will never get any action.

Sarah Lane and Kevin Rose both blogged that they cut a bunch of people from The Screen Savers and killed Unscrewed all together. Apparently the aren't enough shows with pairs of unattractive and uninteresting men talking about video games. What particularly sucks about this is all of the people they let go of were lured down to LA from the bay area, and a few months later, they're out.

And for what? When things finally started to settle, I was starting to accept the evolved shows. X-Play went relatively untouched, fortunately, and it's the only gaming show on the network that I can stand (hopefully the success has not gone to Morgan's head). They took some hilarious stabs in the first show about moving to LA. Unscrewed was the same goofy shit, and frankly was at the very least a change of pace from everything else on the network. The Screen Savers got a little too frat party, but it was grounded in the credibility of Kevin and Sarah (attractive people that aren't stupid), and Yoshi, the Jedi master of hardware. I wasn't sure about Alex (he was no Leo or Patrick), but he wasn't bad.

I fear now that the network for smart geeks is done for good, and all of the smart people that made it special are out on their asses. They may blog that "it's part of the biz," but I disagree. This kind of TV is not rocket science. I produced more interesting government access shows when I did that stuff. It's still about informative, interesting and entertaining content. Most G4 programming is none of the above.

Sigh. There's so little worth watching on TV as it is.

14 Comments

  • *mourn* Are the people at Comcast completely brain dead or what? I can't believe how out of touch they are...I long for the days of TechTV, or even ZDTV for that matter. :(

  • G4-TechTV is DOA



    it was like a frontal lobotomy on TV.



    Good Greef will they *PLEASE* just drop it altogether!



    just shutdown and be done with it.

  • Nothing is worse than commercialization in the information community and G4-TechTv is its poster child.



    Mindless action of game play is more rewarding to American corporations than individual expression and cooperative development in the information community.



    With this as an example, it is easy to understand why the USA is hated by most of the planet.



    Mindless, self-involved consumers

  • I think it's time to just forget G4TechTV and promote the concept of a tech network devoted to the intelligent side of the industry. This utopia would feature computer help shows like Call For Help and what The Screensavers used to be, a program with the same premise as Fresh Gear, a tech-oriented news show (maybe not so much like TechLive was, but informative nonetheless), sure, a gaming review show or two, and showcase programs about technology not necessarily limited to computers. I know this is possible, and if billion-dollar corporations would project their assets toward loftier goals rather than targeting the lowest IQ (which is unfortunately a very wide consumer bracket) to maximize their income, we as a tech community could benefit greatly. ~To the future of humankind...

  • That station has gone downhill ever since Ziff Davis sold it... I used to be a devoted fan, but I only ever watch once in a great while because I can't stand it...

  • I hated apple - macintosh- every since elementry school days when that was all we had to work with. Now though comcast they are well on there way to destorying the best aspects of tech television. First leo and call for help now they fire nearly all of g4techtvs' talent. Well that was what they wanted to do in the end, jelousy is a powerful motivater. All I can now hope for is that, perhaps the true talent (techtv) would all leave and try to relaunch a new channel. If you at first don't succed try try again. Then again I won't be be doing any of the hard work so who the hell am I to say anything.

    By the way what the hell is that crap that airs on g4!

    Also I have never before seen, well to be honest, a load of talentless humanbeings on tv before (G4)

  • My favorite program on TechTV is Anime Unleashed. But they put it on at 12am. With the return of Last Exile I really don't understand why they couln't have aired it at a better hour for people who have to work for a living. I'm surprised that their advertisers don't complain since it's so popular. I used to enjoy this channel when it first aired but now, frankly, it's boring.

  • wtf how could they destroy the tss and unscrewd like that im paying $70 for comcast cable already and g4techtv is the olny good channel on tv

    i hate u comcast

    i hate u so mutch

    >:0

  • Couldn't agree more! The channel is dead without TSS.



    A video game show on a Tech network...fine. It's good to have variety. An all videogame network and no tech? I'll pass. I urge you all to cancel any season passes, remove the channel from your favorite lists and write to your cable or satellite prover and ask them to stop carrying the channel. Three thumbs down!



    It's now simply a waste of bandwidth.

  • As a 62 year old male still somewhat computer illiterate, I despise the new TSS format and The total rest of G4. I used to learn things as a novice computer user on the old Tech TV, especially Call For Help.

    It seems to me the greedy bastards sold out to the corperations that sell video games!

    Fuck this noise!!!

  • g4's programing has alienated TechTV and TTS's audience and g4's censorship is out of control!



    Save TechTV and Diverge the Merge!!!

  • Im just glad I can get the new Call For Help program that Leo does from Canada. Its not the same but it is the best program on this network now.

  • Watching g4techtv now is like getting an anal cavity search from the incredible hulk. The morons at comcast screwed up the most entertaining channel for myself and many others to watch and they threw in a bunch of kids who don't know what their doing. I say people who know there gaming like myself should create a channel and overpower them finally proving anyone who watched old school techtv knows more about running a good channel then them jerks. How i miss the days when G4 didnt merge with techtv, because after that moment everything has been downhill.

  • G4-TECHTV is the worst channel that can be out there, it's all brain dead show special AOTS WTF is that. I want the good old days :) JUST TECHTV NO G4

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