Welfare Willis
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Post by Welfare Willis on Sept 6, 2012 21:21:47 GMT -5
Exactly. Like I mentioned in the WWE Network thread, the network needs to expand beyond the original conception because of the new age. We all knew it was a matter of time. Now it sounds like they're trying to rebrand it as a douch-ier Spike network. I doubt it'll make much difference unless they attract some high power creative people.
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Post by Djm Doesn't Find You Funny on Sept 6, 2012 21:36:34 GMT -5
Well, since we have TWiT and plenty of tech networks online, I'm not going to do the token "Bitter Tech TV" rant. That's ancient history, if you actually paid attention.
But G4 COULD have been a cool video game network because it actually was in the beginning. Portal, G4TV.com, and plenty of other shows from its earlier years.
But, no. Comcast and whatever focus groups they thought might work with "mass appeal" came in and burned it all to the ground. G4 was a network that never knew what to do. And now it's going away.
I say good.
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Yami Daimao
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Post by Yami Daimao on Sept 6, 2012 21:40:25 GMT -5
Exactly. Like I mentioned in the WWE Network thread, the network needs to expand beyond the original conception because of the new age. We all knew it was a matter of time. Now it sounds like they're trying to rebrand it as a douch-ier Spike network. I doubt it'll make much difference unless they attract some high power creative people. Thing is, truth be told, a lot to most of what's new age television is crap. Most of the stuff that's popular is superficial and materialistic reality. I know I may sound like some old timer who thinks everything was better back in his day, and I'm aware that stuff like that was present during those time as well, except it was at a much smaller, less nauseating scale. Now? Apparently I'm suppose to deeply care and obsess about what color shoes Kristen Stewart was wearing, what place Kim Kardashian was eating breakfast at, and whatever the flying f*** a Honey Boo Boo is. I'd gladly take whatever is left of G4's tech/game/nerd programming over the male equivalent of the Style Network.
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Post by Tiger Millionaire on Sept 6, 2012 22:10:01 GMT -5
Good, it became junk. Not that it was ever great, but it could have been something different, instead it became Spike TV version 3.1
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Krimzon
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Post by Krimzon on Sept 6, 2012 22:12:27 GMT -5
The real tragedy here is that the legacy of Dude Manrod will be forgotten.
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Sept 6, 2012 22:22:21 GMT -5
WWE should have bought it when they had the chance
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Post by kidglov3s on Sept 6, 2012 23:06:15 GMT -5
*Sighs at the old days of Portal, Cheat, and such. Portal? If you want to fight for Portal... You have my ax!
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Post by Seth Drakin of Monster Crap on Sept 6, 2012 23:08:26 GMT -5
And to think, I made an X-Play joke in my 100th Monster Crap induction last week.
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Krimzon
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Post by Krimzon on Sept 6, 2012 23:09:20 GMT -5
WWE should have bought it when they had the chance I'm sure they can get it for a clean $100 now.
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Post by BearDogg-X on Sept 6, 2012 23:12:49 GMT -5
WWE should have bought it when they had the chance Don't agree with this guy often, but quoted for truth.
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Post by amaron on Sept 6, 2012 23:23:02 GMT -5
Oh no! Who will be there to cover the epic epicness of E3 in the epic year of 2013?
God I hate G4.
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Post by TCM on Sept 6, 2012 23:28:32 GMT -5
The only show I'll miss is (American) Ninja Warrior. That's really my big ? out of all of this. What happens to that show?
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Sept 6, 2012 23:46:21 GMT -5
BTW Sara Jean Underwood... if you need a place to stay for a while you can stay with me. We'll have to share the same bed. Sleep in the nude if you want
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Post by hassanchop on Sept 7, 2012 0:03:45 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2012 0:08:06 GMT -5
The only show I'll miss is (American) Ninja Warrior. That's really my big ? out of all of this. What happens to that show? Depends on what "rebranding" the network does. If it's not, NBC has co-aired ANW the past few seasons during the summer, so it just goes there most likely. Spike just takes whatever is left of G4's E3 coverage (the Sony conference) and perhaps add on the hours and do more live coverage like G4 does w/ co-hosts. I mean hell, BOTH Sessler and Alison Haislip were doing stuff on Spike's coverage (although Alison was more along the lines of her own team instead of Spike) I'm bummed that the network is going the way of the dodo, but at the same time, it was for the best. Most of the "tech"-ish stuff is now online. Perhaps they can stick around online, turn the network into an online thing/IGN-like website.
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Welfare Willis
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Post by Welfare Willis on Sept 7, 2012 2:20:32 GMT -5
Will this mean the end of 3 straight hours of COPS? I like those marathons. I'm not sure what this means for Morgan Webb... Unless some other network want a surly female game journalist.
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Post by Non Banjoble Tokens on Sept 7, 2012 2:27:24 GMT -5
Yes please keep Morgan Webb. She can host some show dedicated to various goings-on of the internet. They can call it, "The Webb-Cast" or something. And bring back the red hair, and lose the bangs.
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Jeremy
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Post by Jeremy on Sept 7, 2012 3:02:16 GMT -5
So it is becoming Bravo?
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Post by willywonka666 on Sept 7, 2012 6:52:42 GMT -5
BTW Sara Jean Underwood... if you need a place to stay for a while you can stay with me. We'll have to share the same bed. Sleep in the nude if you want My offer goes out to Candace
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Post by Turd Ferguson on Sept 7, 2012 9:24:37 GMT -5
It's a mercy killing at this point. It stopped being the "Geek" channel in about 2005, and started being the COPS channel in about 2008.
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