Non-fiction TV Programs You Expected to be Pleasant

[Mario500]

Have you ever been interested in a new non-fiction TV series you expected to be pleasant until you realized it had unpleasant and negative language? I was interested in such a series titled "Top 100 Video Games of All Time" from G4.

At first I was reluctant to watch the series since I never liked G4, especially after they cannibalized TechTV (I watched some of their programs regularly),  but since the series would most likely feature older games and I was interested in video game history and different perspectives into its history I thought the series would be positive, informative, mature, and fun. After watching a few moments of each episode in the series, I was disgusted by the language used by the announcer and some of the commentators. This series should have been an exception to the general tone of G4's programming, but it was part of the same tone.

Now I know I should continue to avoid G4's programming as much as possible. I feel I should have never watched the series based on what I knew about G4, but this series could have been something one may call "a diamond in the rough" or "a hidden gem". It was not like any kind of hidden jewel, it was just more of the same programming one could expect from G4.

There have been much better programs programs about video games and their history in the past and I wish more of them would be produced for television. We need more folks who can talk about video games in a mature way without having to rely upon rude language just to sound cool and mature. The most mature of adults have no use for such words and can convey their feelings with better words.

[Eduardo]

What can you expect from that garbage can disguised as a TV channel? :/

[mrschimpf]

I didn't even bother with this program after the first ten minutes because of the way G4 couldn't even bother to allow Adam Sessler, who left the network a couple months ago and took the high road of not speaking ill of them even as they refused him a proper goodbye, any say or on-camera appearances about this series. A quick TiVo fast-foward proved me right as there were nothing but the less-knowledgable hosts on the network (and poor Morgan Webb still having to defend her love of video games even after nine years of hosting a show about them) putting in their say, along with the usual cadre of Z-list celebrities acting like idiots.

Also, their disingenuous move a month back of placing a half-hour infomercial movie for a game under the X-Play title so DVR season passes caught it proved that once Sessler left, all editorial control has moved away from G4 and towards the game companies. I had no expectations that the series would at all be classy and expected bleeps and such all around. Once the remainder of their talent's contracts run out, I expect G4 to become a wasteland of COPS and Quantum Leap repeats, as everything before their live block is now.

[mescutia]

The spirit of TechTV lives on at TWiT, Revision3, and CNET.  (It's strongest at TWiT, though, unsurprisingly.)

Also, G4 has Quantum Leap?  That makes less sense than BBC America having Star Trek: The Next Generation.  For one thing, it probably won't entice too many QL fans to check out G4's other shows.  What's next, MTV showing episodes of Murder, She Wrote?