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« January 2009 | Main | March 2009 »
A new show forum has popped up on G4's official site titled "G4 Underground with Morgan Webb." We know virtually nothing about the show other than it's short description: "From cyber terrorism to porn 2.0, we cover the subjects other networks won't touch."
Sounds interesting. We'll have to wait until March 29th @ 9PM EST to see it but you can submit topic suggestions via the show's forum.
It looks like the first lady of "The Feed" will be heading into the sunset. Layla Kayleigh, who has been with the network for nearly 3 years will be exiting in the next month or so. She posted the news to her MySpace blog.
"After 3 incredible years I will be leaving G4 and not be doing The feed anymore.
I can't tell you how bittersweet it is for me. Bitter because I will miss YOU. The ones that have supported me, watched me grow, tuned in daily to show me love and get all the news you need to know ;) I will miss all the people I work with, that I have known to grow and love, that have known me since the first day I stepped on that stage and had no idea what I was doing! but they were patient, saw how hungry I was and gave me a hand without me even asking for one."
She will be replaced by Allison Haislip, who has done a variety of work for G4 including filling in for The Feed when Kayleigh was absent, as well as the G4 Tech News Countdown podcast and filling in various spots on Attack of the Show.
Thanks to RonMav for finding the story.
RonMaverick804 from our forums has dug up some exciting news on Scot Rubin's All Games coming to TV.
Ron writes:
I was checking my facebook and i got this in my inbox!
Scott:
"I opened up a thread for suggestion on what an All Games tv show should include. AGI was a live 3 hour talk show and we will only have 30 minutes or so this time around.
We've got lots of ideas and don't want to duplicate the shows that Geoff and Sess do, so we're trying to think a bit out of the box.
Would love your thoughts"
Proof:
AGI facebook group:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?v=feed&id=744215401#/group.php?gid=19049540312
Let the speculation begin! We first heard of All Games perhaps hooking up with DirecTV last month, so my first guess would be on there.
In case you've been living under a rock (or have a life), All Games is/was the pre-cursor to G4TV, which was revived after by Scot Rubin after he departed G4. Rubin ran a daily live show for several years before quitting to work for the now-defunct Championship Gaming League.
As always, we'll keep our eyes/ears on the ground for more details. Thanks to RonMav for finding the story!
In a rather shocking news article posted to Kotaku, G4 has decided to slash production schedules at Attack of the Show and X-Play, which will result in some layoffs which could be as high as HALF the X-Play staff. X-Play will drop to 3 days a week, while AOTS returns to 4 days a week, a far cry from Neal Tiles' previous goal of 7-days a week of 60 minute X-Play.
The story was originally broke via Twitter when an employee tweeted the news.
Certainly not what we were hoping from G4 to start out 2009, it seems not even Hollywood is recession proof. Tough times all around.
Come discuss the news with us in our forums.
Click here for the original story.
It's not that we didn't see it coming or anything. As of January 20th, GamePlayHD has closed up shop. After being dropped by Dish Network last year, it was only broadcasted on a handful of Cablevision networks in the northeast.
The channel's website now redirects to one of the few remaining VOOM HD channels that survived, "Rush HD" a channel dedicated to action sports. Did anyone actually get to watch GamePlayHD before it's demise?
This is a week late, but I thought I ought to mention that GTTV is back from their break with a new season with Geoff Keighly at the helm. This is technically season 2 of GTTV, but will be the sixth season if you count GameHead which GameTrailers TV's precursor.
Here's a preview of Friday, Feb. 6th's show (which is actually the 2nd ep. of the season):
Peace and Prosperity Be Damned! On Friday, February 6th, GAMETRAILERS TV
WITH GEOFF KEIGHLEY presents the world exclusive first look at a
groundbreaking new piece of video game content: THE LOST AND DAMNED, the
first downloadable episode ("dle") for GRAND THEFT AUTO IV. Arriving
exclusively for Xbox 360 on Tuesday, February 17th, THE LOST AND DAMNED sets
a new standard by delivering a robust single player storyline that
intersects with the plot of GRAND THEFT AUTO IV.
Same time (1AM EST) same place (SpikeTV).
The February edition of Open Source is now live on G4's site. This month G4 boss Neal Tiles talks how 2008 fared for G4, how the economy is affecting the channel, why LOST wasn't a mistake and more.
Click the link below for the full read:
http://g4tv.com/opensource.aspx
Sounds like G4 is battening down the hatches for 2009, it will be interesting to see which direction they take to stop their ratings slide. It sounds like they'll be looking at original content again instead of acquiring outside shows (w00t!).