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More updates coming soon.

Like COPS? Great!
Like when cops take down drunken frat boys? Great!

G4 has announced a new show called Campus PD, a reality show our forums unearthed a few weeks ago about cops that patrol college campuses.

“It’s no secret that high energy police shows are very popular among male viewers. With Campus PD, we join real police teams and head to college towns, where the students – and their everyday lives – will prove highly relatable to G4’s core young male audience” said G4 governator, Neal Tiles.

Say what you will about “it’s not game/tech related,” but he’s right. I do enjoy me some COPS and I am a young male.

The show starts December 9th and it’ll even be in HD! I wonder if they’re censor the vomit?

-KnuxSonic

As requested by the forums, here’s a full episode of Cheat! Pringles’ Gamer’s Guide. The video also includes all gaming relevant ads and G4 ads that it originally aired with.

Thanks to jackmagic for sending this DVD in!

-KnuxSonic

After just under 9 months with the company, Editorial Director Billy Berghammer has left G4TV for unknown reasons. Here’s the text from the story on Kotaku:

Billy Berghammer, the former director of gaming editorial at G4 who was part of the TV network’s attempts to beef up its online presence earlier this year is out at that company. Details of Berghammer’s departure are unclear. “We do not discuss specifics regarding personnel matters,” G4’s Adam Sessler told Kotaku. “I can confirm that X-Play and G4tv.com are still as committed to their coverage of gaming as they always have been.” Kotaku was unable to reach Berghammer by the publication of this post.

As the article states, we’re not sure if he quit, was fired, laid off, etc. We also don’t know where this leaves G4TV.com’s “Feedback” (formerly The Feed Nightcap), which is G4 Rewind’s current favorite G4 product.

Berghammer did post a short blurb on his Twitter account regarding the change:

thanks family and true friends for their love in the last 72. Been an interesting road that’s come to an end in a flash. No regrets. Always.

UPDATE: Also apparently dropped from the G4tv.com staff was Raymond Padilla, who was notified he was out of a job while covering the Tokyo Game Show in Japan. Not sure what’s with the shakeup, but hopefully all parities land on their feet. Can G4tv.com and The Feed continue it’s upward climb without them?

UPDATE 2 (Oct 14): Also exiting the network is it’s Senior VP and G4 co-founder Joshua Kane, who joined the network from All Games so many years ago. Are all of these sudden departures related somehow? His twitter account Goodexec has a wealth of fun facts about G4 and his tenure.

Among them is a great little tidbit that Icons (the good kind please?) along with the rest of the G4 classics could be showing up on G4TV.com by year’s end.

We’ve heard such rumblings in the past, but nothing has ever come of it. Perhaps the 33rd time is a charm?

Thanks to forum user FFanatic for finding this info.

-KnuxSonic

How did we miss this one?

As of June of 2009, G4TechTV Canada, which had clung to the TechTV name and genre from the get-go, has dropped the TechTV moniker and is now simply G4 Canada.

In addition to the new name, the network has matched G4 USA’s pace and begun airing non-tech/gaming shows. Hilariously, they seem to have a MUCH better lineup than G4 USA in just 4 months (compared to, what, 5 years now in the US?), acquiring the rights to such shows as Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Tim & Eric Awesome Show (Great Job!), The Office, Venture Brothers, Freaks & Geeks and pretty much every other current Adult Swim show.

So let me get this straight. Canada has a network where I can watch X-Play, The Electric Playground, Reviews on the Run, PLUS the entire Adult Swim lineup? I’m moving!

Let’s see… in the USA, we’ve got… we got COPS and Cheaters… and… damn. To be fair, it was probably easier for G4 Canada to find some great American shows than G4 USA to find some great Canadian shows (BURN!).

-KnuxSonic