THANKS for all the fish!
Hi all,
As the producers of The Lab with Leo Laporte, we are blogging to let you know that, effective now, production has ceased on the show.
However, all the episodes that have been produced thus far will air on G4TechTV Canada. Episodes up to, and including, number 180 will air as scheduled, air dates for episodes 181 to 195 will be confirmed shortly.
We, along with the whole Greedy Productions team, would like to thank you for your involvement with the show over the past year. We all recognize that we could not have produced 195 hours of live-to-tape TV without your help. You helped make the Lab with Leo a show of which we can all be proud!
Again, we thank you for being such good friends of the show, and I wish you all the best.
Sincerely,
The Lab Team
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Leo still does his tech thing. This show however, was my foyer into the software side of this awesome industry and after learning about leoville and This Week In Tech (TWIT), I seldom watched this show. Still, it was a great intro, and I'm sorry no one else can get the same treatment I did. Still, I strongly urge anyone who liked the lab to visit www.twit.com. The "netcasts" (as podcasts implies ipod only, leo invented the term netcast) at twit are much more into the niche they serve, such as security, web2.0, windows, mac, or linux (open source programming) but the content is fantastic. The content on twit is astonishingly more in-depth, but if you can stomach it its the one source for everything you could ever need to be a complete geek.
now onto the Attack Of The Show rant:
AOTS was entertained me for about five minutes before I realized it was nothing but horrible reviews of lesser quality then Cnets "first look". Around the net: yeah sure show me what I've already seen on youtube, thanks. Virtual audience: You get people who have never used or researched a service, commenting on it. Gadget pron: as a hardware enthusiast, don't get me started. The terms were wrong, the specs were wrong, no hard information is given, availability never mentioned. "Twin SLI cards" he says... gets under my skin every time they guy even pretends to know what his terms mean. Attack this: the single most irrelevant segment of any show ever. Epic fail: this show.
Once again, G4 demonstrates why they are not worthy of attention. How they can take MILLIONS of viewers of TechTV's (USA) actual TECH programs (The Screen Savers, Call for Help, etc.), drop them as if they had no viewership and think that these same viewers will watch the absolute drivel currently offered on G4 is beyond comprehension.
G4 destroyed what was a thriving satellite network. I expect that they are still making money from the 9-15 year olds who are now their viewership but why not keep the actual Tech programming and increase the viewership?!
AOTS?! Please...reminds me of the frequently used moniker used of AOL...A**holes On Line.
Never got to see The Lab since it wasn't offered by the "braintrust" of G4 for the USA.
Unbelievable!
Why does G4 even exist?!
Anyone?
What else is there on G4? AOTS has to be the worst show I've ever seen, the humor is just horrible. X-play has very poor and undetailed video game reviews.
Electric playground and reviews on the run are good, but with 90% of shows being reruns, G4 no longer has a reason to exist. I cut it from my digital tv.
Sorry to see this fine series end hope all will be able to resurrect on some other channel
as have always enjoyed the many features and introducing new products fixes without
all the advertising rhetoric that one sees in all the current printed publications. Perhaps
you could come out with a boxed series set like they do for TV series such as they have done for Lost and Desperate Housewives. neither of those would I buy but yours if out...definately.
Hope to See you all on the web either as a torrent or something else. Best of luck to all.
I hope that this kind of sponsorship pull is not indicative of today's shortsighted mindset
of corporate boardrooms?.....doh who am I kidding....sigh
Call for Help was great, but Lab with leo was even better. Saen's shinnies were great, so to Yewell's Jewels, Kate was fantastic, Rays knowledge was unbelievable, and Steve of GRC so important and all praise for the host Leo. I still have some episodes on my PVR and I can relive the show, unfortunatly the contant does not change. I'd be very interested in learnig of any new programs on the same theme. All the best to the crew.
That's just too bad... I think that G4 TV should check more often the rating of their shows, they wouldn't cancel this show! I've discover Léo and his gang last fall and I liked it, than pouf! Gone! What a pity! I find that channels who offer great techno shows have a tendency to cut them... For example, there is a French channel called “Z télé”, who have a show called "La revenche des nerdz" that was on the air four times a week, now they are only one time a week... Smell something? Yep! Cancellation!!!
I wish for the gang all the best and I truly hope that your show, our show, will come back. If not, well, G4 will loose another customer!
Hey, how about a petition?
Best wishes
Félix Savard
This was one of the only Good Shows on G4Tech Tv. Attack of the Show (Crap) it should be called is still on I can't figure that out. It was supposed to replace the Screensavers, Again another good show cancelled. Well Cancelled seems to be the theme here , maybe they should rename the Channel To G4 Cancelled....
Really what is tech about it, hey not all of us are into rude crap and borring shows like Attack Of The Show,,,What show they are morons on this and and the host is a looser they both are,,,,, Oh well I guess PodCasting is the only way to get Good Insightful Tech Programming,,,,
Whats the Number to Cancel G4Tech TV???
Leo Start your own Channel
I simply cannot believe what I am reading. I have been a huge fan of Leo, and his co-workers for years, and it was the only reason I had a subscription through Bell ExpressVu for TechTV. I have watched every episode of The Lab with Leo, and Call for Help. Having been in tech for over 25 years, I found that Leo Leporte was the only source for honest opinions that were not biased as a result of corporate sponsorship. I almost wonder if it was because Leo was so honest that the “big boys” from Symantec and Microsoft put stop to the show. Shame on Tech TV if this is the case.
Whatever your future brings you Leo, I wish you the very best!
Michael P.
Prince Edward Island, Canada
As with all the people that have responded I am shocked and sad to see the show go and will be watching for the next show you guys/gals will do(if any) and wish you good luck with whatever that might be.
As with all the people that have responded I am shocked and sad to see the show go and will be watching for the next show you guys/gals will do(if any) and wish you good luck with whatever that might be.
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