I never really got into G4 but I really liked TechTV, in fact I liked ZDTV and then I still liked it as TechTV. When they merged it was still good, and then they dropped the TechTV part of the name and it was still good, and then they dropped The Screen Savers, and shortly after that it started going downhill-- I didn't see it at the time. Code Monkeys was good but seemed to not appeal to some segments of their demographic and relatively little outside their demographic so they cut it. Spaceballs: The Animated Series showed up around three years after they first announced it and only a few episodes that aired for a few months, and it didn't seem as good as it could've/should've been, but it's questionable how much control they had over any of that. They had Star Trek (TOS and then also TNG) on for a good while and that was good but apparently it didn't keep people watching as much as they'd have liked and indeed some people complained about too much Star Trek and were verbally struck down by those of us that actually watched for nerdy stuff and not half-baked comedy or girls just pretty enough to be on TV and just homely enough to be worth focusing on for their looks-- for the record I watched for the nerdy stuff and the half-baked comedy. At some point they started showing COPS and apparently that's been their biggest ratings draw ever since, which seems to be exactly why they added it; pretty much the same goes for Cheaters. They had a segment called G4 Rewind where they showed old episodes of X-Play and some cancelled G4 shows and it was good, and then they cut it citing ratings. At some point they added "Movies that don't Suck" and a lot of them don't suck and some do, but either way it's mostly positive. Relatively recently they moved all their show interactivity from their IRC channels (where I've been hanging out for over 3 years) to Twitter and basically disavowed IRC. Most of us know about how DirecTV cut it because of ratings. I've been meaning to watch X-Play but I hardly have in the last year or so. I could say something about Web Soup but Chris Hardwick is pretty freakin' awesome and I don't think I've watched enough to get a good feel for it, and in fact I don't know if it's also been cut, which brings me to the end. I'll be sad to see them go but it's pretty clear at this point G4 will probably be cancelled or turned into something else (not that that didn't happen already), the best old fans can hope for is that it gets bought out again by someone that wants to tap into the now relatively unfilled nerd TV niche-- and that may the real issue, people are on the Internet and not watching TV, especially the kind of people that would watch stuff like X-Play and The Screen Savers and AOTS.
