Filter
Filter
Status: Cancelled; Not Airing
Filter served two tours of duty at G4: one as a game & tech oriented countdown show and later, as a Maxim magazine-esque “guy” countdown show. Original seasons focused on topics such as “Scariest Games” or “Hardest Boss Battle” and was hosted by Diane Mizota, while the rebooted series featured topics such as “wildest parties” or “most dangerous women” and was hosted by quasi-Hollywood star Beth O.
Host
 Beth Ostrosky
Former English teacher and basketball hopeful-turned model, Beth Ostrosky has appeared in multiple calendars, catalogs and magazines. Residing in New York with her boyfriend and media icon Howard Stern, Beth O is also a huge animal activist and helped raise thousands of dollars for displaced pets after Hurricane Katrina. |
Previous Host
A UCLA grad, Mizota has guest starred in lots of primetime shows like Nip/Tuck, CSI and Without a Trace. She also hosted “Trading Spaces: Boys VS Girls” on Discovery Kids. After Filter, Mizota freelances, but doesn’t stray far from her tech roots, co-hosting “InDigital,” an online gadget review show for a year before being moving on and being replaced with another G4 alumni: Wil Wheaton. |
Diane MizotaHistory
 Filter originally began as a games-only top-ten countdown show, covering topics as “Best Villain,” “Coolest Weapons,” and “Worst Game Ever” but branched out and began reviewing tech gadgets and movies around the time of the TechTV merger and received a new look, logo and packaging. Near the end of the Mizota era, the show began to fill at least some of the void TechTV shows have left with more segments dedicated to tech reviews such as the “Tech Tossup”. After four years and 116 episodes, Filter was about to see some dramatic changes.
After Filter’s annual “Gifts for Gamers” specials, the show went dark and host Diane Mizota as well as most of the staff were laid Later, Filter was been reborn as a quick 60-second G-Spot segment in between ads in the same form as the Beth O Filter, but hosted by Olivia Munn. |
off. G4 decided to rebrand the show and give it a new direction. The new Filter would be hosted by Hollywood quasi-icon Beth O and instead of counting down the best shooters or cameras, it would count down the wildest parties, the most dangerous women and the craziest stunts. The show went over terribly with fans and the show has not produced any new episodes since summer ’06.BTW!
- Filter was one of the 13 original series to debut with G4.
- Filter is the longest running show on G4 (tied with Cinematech and Cheat!)
- Former G4TV.com host Tina Wood was a producer/writer for Filter
- Many of the surviving TechTV crew members ended up on Filter.