Attack of the Show!
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About Attack of the Show!Status: Airs LIVE Monday – Thursday @ 7PM EST Hosted by “cable television darling” Kevin Pereira and Oliva Munn, Attack of the Show! is a high-energy, humor-filled hour long talk show. AOTS has a variety of daily and weekly segments covering viral videos, weird news, DVD reviews, gadgets, video games, sex, drugs and a host of other off-the-wall topics. The show began after the demise of “The Screen Savers” in 2005 and is quickly approaching it’s 1,000th episode. |
Current Hosts
 Kevin PereiraKevin “Captain Immy” Pereira was previously the Production Assistant for G4TV.com and worked his way up the ranks, eventually to host Pulse, Arena and now AOTS. Kevin is an avid gamer and technology enthusiast and studied film and television production with a scholarship to the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. Like many G4 hosts, Kevin previously hosted a gaming internet radio show called “Pointless Audio” and hosts his blog at kevinpereira.com. His Twitter page is at twitter.com/kpereira. |
 Olivia Munn
Coming from Fox Sports Net, Munn is a former sideline reporter but avid tech and pop culture enthusiast. Raised in Japan and born in Oklahoma, Munn took over co-hosting duties on AOTS when former host Sarah Lane announced her marriage and resignation. Olivia’s personal blog is at oliviamunn.com and her Twitter is at twitter.com/oliviamunn. |
Previous Hosts
 Sarah Lane
Sarah first joined TechTV as a writer and eventually moved infront of the camera doing segment work for The Screen Savers and continued until eventually becoming a permanent co-host of Attack of the Show. Her personal segments under TSS & AOTS were “Gems of the Internet” and “Damn Good Downloads” which were retired after she left the network in 2006 to marry co-host Brendon Moran. Sadly she announced in December of 2008 that the marirge had broken up. Now, Sarah does work for Revision3, TWiT and works at the current.tv news channel. Her blog is at sarahlane.com/blog. |
 Kevin Rose
Kevin started as an intern on The Screen Savers and eventually rose to become an occasional host and took over for Leo Laporte after he left to focus on Call for Help. While on TSS & AOTS, Rose developed Digg, a social bookmarking site that has quickly become one of the most popular sites on the internet. He left G4 to pursue Digg and his work at Revision3. Rose also hosts Diggnation with former TSS host Alex Albrecht, a weekly podcast discussing popular Digg stories. His blog is at kevinrose.com. |
History
Attack of the Show first aired in late-March of 2005 and was spawned from the long-running The Screen Savers. After G4 retooled TSS in November of the previous year, it was clear show was moving in a separate direction from that of previous incarnations of TSS. G4 realized they had created a whole new show and decided it was time to acknowledge this by renaming the show and creating a new set. With this TSS officially ended and AOTS was born in it’s place, all of the hosts and many of the regular segments from G4′s TSS returned and now could officially move in the direction it wanted without being constrained by TSS’s original format. Originally hosted by Kevin Rose and Kevin Pereira with side reports done by Sarah Lane and Brendon Moran. Soon, G4 let Kevin Rose out of his 4 year contract in May 2005 to pursue working on his social news aggregation site, Digg.com. A contest and test run of potential replacement hosts was held, but oddly no winner was ever chosen and Sarah Lane became the standard co-host.
In May 2006, Sarah Lane and occasional host Brendan Moran announced they would be getting married and would leaving the show to take a year long, country hopping honeymoon (they eventually annoucned their divorce in December of ’08). Olivia Munn was announced as the replacement. Shortly after E3 2006, Attack of the Show! was relaunched, with new graphics, a new set and new segments. AOTS broadened it’s topics, now covering everything from comics to sex talk, but still kept a general emphasis on gaming and internet culture. While the show does still air some tech/gear segments, they’re generally not as in-depth as years before. Tech reporter Wil O’Neal covered most of these segments until leaving the show to return to San Fransisco in September of 2007. He was replaced by Chris Hardwick, who eventually got his own show, Web Soup. The show also added new interactive features including video mail and chat from viewers, much like “The Screen Savers” did during it’s TechTV years.
The show’s news segment “The Feed” was originally “fed” by Sarah Lane, followed by Layla Keighley and now Allison Haislip.
BTW
- AOTS is G4′s only live and daily show.
- AOTS was the first network show to have live coverage of the San Diego Comic-Con and the Tokyo Game Show.
- You could interact with the show by logging into G4′s Chat or calling in, however the show has discontinued these segments in favor of video mail and eventually Stickam video chat.
- AOTS holds several obscure world records such as the “World’s Largest NES Controller” creation and the “First Live Webserver in a Human Ass”.
- The show produces several live on-location shows every year including E3, the E for All expo, the San-Diego Comic Con, the Tokyo Game Show and more.
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