Rumor has it that G4 Television has cancelled Call for Help for a second time. The news isn’t particularly surprising considering CfH’s horrible timeslot (11AM EST/8AM PST, then moved even earlier) and the channel’s horrible ratings overall. The channel’s ratings have plunged way below TechTV standards and even lower than G4’s pre-merger ratings, and people are giving up on watching in droves. Add that to the hefty cost of The Man Show reruns that G4 has purchased, and you have a recipie for disaster.
I’ve long thought that G4 brought back CfH just to quiet the hatred over the merger, and then subsequently allow it to fail loudly so they could claim that technology on television is pointless. Well, of course it’s pointless when you make it completely inaccessable. Everyone saw through the ruse Comcast, we all know what your goal was from the start.
Regardless, no official statement has been made as of yet, so treat this as a rumor. More details as they become available, and keep in mind that just because G4 has made this move doesn’t mean that G4TechTV Canada has decided to cancel, or The How To channel in Australia has decided to cancel. We just might continue to see new episodes of CfH in the future anyway, and there still exists the possibility of an intelligent network picking up the show and running it in a timeslot it deserves with the promotion it deserves.
3 replies on “G4TV Cancels CFH…Again”
Leo Laporte said Call For Help was cancelled on his KFI radio show on December 17, 2005. We discussed it on the Official Leoville Town Square Podcast (Leo Laporte’s Forums). Thanks for providing this blog as a great public service. 🙂
Thanks for the comment Chris, and thanks for the information! Such a shame, I’m hoping that the show will keep running in Canada and Austrailia so we’ll continue to see new episodes!
It’s really surprising how a company that should be a proffessional can screw up so much, so often. I think everyone knew that G4TechTV/G4 would fail (at least here in America, it sounds like it’s doing better in Canada), but the channel took the plunge anyways.