G4 Rewind

From sports, to TV to movies, Filter counts down the best, the worst and the weirdest. Hosted by Howard Stern's Beth O., Filter is a high energy, pop culture half-hour of list-mania. Viewers can input their opinion via the online "Filterator."

Former English teacher and basketball hopeful-turned model, Beth Ostrosky decided to model instead and 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.

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.

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 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.

Since then, Filter has been reborn as a quick 60-second G-Spot segment in the same form as the Beth O Filter, but hosted by Olivia Munn.