[SayWhat?]

Originally set up as a channel devoted to the culture of video games and the digital world, G4 today canceled its long-running shows Attack of the Show and X-Play, according to gaming blog Kotaku, in what is expected to be a rebranding of the channel into a young male's haven in the vein of men's magazines GQ and Esquire.

http://www.tv.com/news/g4-ditches-gaming-programming-cancels-attack-of-the-show-and-x-play-29932/

 

[mreposter]

Let's be honest - there just weren't enough people watching this channel. Time for a reboot.

 

[TheRatPatrol]

Let's be honest - there just weren't enough people watching this channel. Time for a reboot.

Kind of hard to watch when you don't receive the channel.

I agree, the show went down hill after the name change and after Kevin Rose and Sarah Lane left.

 

[SayWhat?]

The downhill slide accelerated when they dumped TechTV.

 

[litex2x]

Candace Bailey and Sarah Jean Underwood were the only reasons I watched G4.

 

[Galaxie6411]

Figured this was coming I quit watching both Shortly after Kevin P. and Adam S. left each show. Probably 3 months or more now. Both could have easily gone on without them but they didn't. X play started reviewing Shoes last I saw and AOTS started a revolving door of mostly bad guest hosts that spouted their own agenda's for a good 5 straight minutes every show. Towards the end I could knock out AOTS in 5-10 minutes and Xplay was 2-5.

Glory days were definitely back during the Kevin Rose, Leo Laporte, Sarah Lane, Alex Albrecht and many others.

 

[dpeters11]

And most are better off now. Though we are approaching the 6th anniversary of the James Kim tragedy.

 

[Inkosaurus]

=/ My nets pretty terribad and usually avoid streaming E3.

So now this makes me wonder how im going to watch it this summer :<

 

[dpeters11]

It will become the Esquire channel

http://www.theverge.com/2012/12/8/3744200/g4-rebrand-esquire-channel

 

[fluffybear]

It will become the Esquire channel

http://www.theverge.com/2012/12/8/3744200/g4-rebrand-esquire-channel

A look into the future:

February 21st, 2013 NBCU fires buffoon who came up with idea of Esquire channel and plans to rebrand the channel as soon as possible to Law & Order channel. L&O will show the Law & Order franchise 24/7

 

[SayWhat?]

rebrand the channel as soon as possible to Law & Order channel.

Already have one of those, masquerading as TNT.