About Blister

Status: Cancelled, Not Airing

Coming attractions and previews made up the bulk of Blister, hosted by Bill Sindelar. For the most part, Blister featured game trailers and videos narrated by Sindelar in the style of game’s main character. The show was also sprinkled with interviews from developers and industry insiders and occasionally some on-location action.

Hosts

Bill Sindelar

“Mad Bil Sindelar” has dipped his feet in lots of different entertainment genres over his carreer, including The Wayne Brady Show, various on-location Nickelodeon events, sporting events and movies. Outside of entertainment, he’s also ventured into areas such as DJ-ing, semi-pro sports and even training at SeaWorld. His website is located at billsindelar.com.

History

Blister goes down in G4 lore as the first show to ever air on the network. The show aired for roughly a year and half before getting cancelled due to budget problems in January of 2004, ironically just after a host chat with Sindelar on G4′s IRC chat. The show’s last episode, “Skunk’d” was a paradoy of the (at the time) also ending MTV show “Punk’d”, however G4 viewers would soon find out that Blister’s cancellation was no joke. Soon after another popular G4 show Portal was also cancelled. The show returned on air in reruns in summer of 2008 as part of the G4 Rewind block.

BTW

• Blister was the first show to ever air on the network, part of the original 13 series to debut with G4
• The Blister pilot featured the same intro with different music
• Blister featured some of the highest ratings of the G4 Rewind block