G4TV.com
The original video game talk show, G4TV.com centered around three hosts which discussed the latest events and releases in the gaming industry. The show was also the headline show for integration with the network's userbase and community. Viewers could interact by posting in the show's online message boards and even talk to the show's hosts in the network's chat room while they tape each week's episode. User comments often showed up on air or select viewers could appear on the show as callers.
Status
G4TV.com is canceled and no longer in production. No reruns are currently airing.
| Hosts |
 Geoff Keighley
G.K. joined G4TV.com in January of 2005 after doing several stints as guest host of the show when Scot Rubin left the show. Geoff has also made several appearances on other G4 shows such as Icons & AOTS and is a regular contributor to The Electric Playground. Outside G4, Keighley has written gaming articles for Entertainment Weekly and runs his own website, GameSlice. |
 Tina Wood
"T-Dub" has been with G4 since launch and also wrote for several other G4 shows including Filter, Cheat!, and Icons. Tina was actually born in England but raised in Flordia. After G4TV.com, Tina does videocasts for Microsoft tech/gaming site on10. |
 Laura Foy
"Thug" originally worked on the All Games Radio Network with Scot Rubin before coming to G4, where she directed as well as hosted shows. At G4, Laura was co-host and associate producer of G4TV.com. After G4TV.com was canceled, Laura joined co-host Tina on Microsoft's gaming/tech videocast on10. You can check out her blog at laurafoy.typepad.com. |
| Previous Host |
 Scot Rubin
Considered by many as the father of the original G4 vision, Scot Rubin launched his own internet gaming radio network in 1996 called the "All Games Network," which took on various forms and shows throughout it's life. Rubin was hired by Comcast and Charles Hirschhorn as a consultant and vice president for a 24/7 network dedicated to video games. AGN ended and G4 launched in 2002. Rubin's G4TV.com was a similar to "GameTime!" a show he hosted on AGN. Scot left the network in 2005 shortly after E3 and the G4-TechTV merger due to disagreements over the future direction of the network. Today he has revived the All Games network and produces and hosts a daily live show, All Games Interactive. |
History
G4TV.com is considered the spirtual successor to "GameTime!", a gaming radio program on the All Games Network, founded by Scot Rubin in 1996, albeit G4TV.com was much less free form to air on television. Originally hosted by Scot "AGN" Rubin, Tina "T-Dub" Wood, Laura "Thug" Foy, Rubin left the trio in Summer of 2004 due to disputes on the direction of the network as well as to continue the The All Games Network, but still occasionally appeared on the network for a few months afterwards. Up until the end of of the year, his spot would be filled by guest hosts from the likes of former-TechTV regular Cat Schwartz, Xbox co-creator Seamus Blackley and various other industry regulars and G4 hosts. To start off the next season of the show, regular guest Geoff Keighley was named as the new co-host. Other regulars on G4TV.com include former-production assistant Kevin Pereira, who went on to host Pulse, Arena and The Screen Savers and various other then-hosts such as Pulse's Patrick Clark. G4TV.com's signature attraction was the involvement of the viewers. Fans could call into the show, chat and with the hosts and listen to a live audio stream as they taped each episode and several segments of the show were dedicated to chatter from it's online message boards.
During the final year of the show, G4 informed the crew and producers that the show was on the brink of cancellation and the show's format saw many changes including much less user interaction. The show no longer involved the chat room while taping and many of the message boards segments were cut. Unfortunately these changes did not help and the show was canceled at the end of the 2005 season, after low ratings and constant time slot changes. The final episode entitled "Goodbye" aired December 19th, 2005.
Tina, Laura and Geoff were either let go or quit, although Geoff still appears occasionally on Attack of the Show and the network's E3 coverage. Scot Rubin continues to air "All Games Interactive," a daily live web show which is somewhat of a continuation of GameTime! and G4TV.com, which Laura once appeared on as a guest.
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Quick Facts
-Previous Host Scot Rubin was founder of the All Games Network, which was the online precursor to G4
-Rubin left after the TechTV merger due to creative differences with the network and it's future direction.
-G4TV.com became unofficially known as "G4TV The Show" during the 5th season.
-Starting with the fifth season, G4TV.com began using Unscrewed's old set.
-G4TV.com taped every Thursday at 12:30PM EST, you could join them in G4's Chat and listen to the live audio stream.
-Hosts Laura Foy and Tina Wood moved on to host Microsoft's daily online show on10.
-Host Geoff Keighley now hosts "Gamehead" on SpikeTV and regularly appears a guest on AOTS.
-In the pilot episode, Gringo, now member of the G4 web team, hosted in place of Tina.
