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| Format | Live action, comedy, variety television series |
| Starring | See the Attack of the Show Hosts. |
| Country of origin |  United States |
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| Running time | 60 minutes per episode (inc. advertisements) |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | G4 |
| Picture format | 480i SDTV |
| Original run | March 28, 2005 – present |
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| Official website | |
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| TV.com summary | |
Attack of the Show! (commonly referred to as AOTS) is a U.S. live television program shown weeknights on G4, G4techTV in Canada and Fuel TV in Australia.
Attack of the Show! is hosted by Kevin Pereira and Olivia Munn weekly on G4tv. Attack of the Show! reviews new technological items, parodies daily news, and gives exclusive previews of upcoming and highly anticipated video games, movies and digital media.
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History
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The program is known for commonly having segments where viewers can call, chat, and e-mail questions which are answered live on the show. It is also the only form of media to advertise most Internet fads. The show premiered on March 28, 2005 as the replacement for The Screen Savers. The show originally aired live five days a week; the week of January 2, 2006, the show was truncated to air for only four days a week. Fridays formerly featured a "Mash Up" which compiles the best segments from the week's four live shows. AOTS now broadcasts live from their studio in Los Angeles five days a week.
Personalities
Host Kevin Rose, one of the holdovers from the TechTV days, left the show in May 2005. The show announced a search for a new host among the shows audience, and for several months various candidates auditioned on the air. In the end none of the candidates were actually selected, although, puzzlingly, this was never actually announced on the air. Sarah Lane, who had previously been a co-host and segment contributor, gradually became the shows official host. She continued in this capacity until Thursday, April 6, 2006, when she and Brendan Moran announced their engagement and stated that they would be leaving the show. They married in late May 2006 and had a thirteen-month honeymoon traveling the world and documenting their adventures online at Sarah's website.[1] The Morans appeared on the show, via satellite, on July 13, 2006 to talk about their adventures. The couple had been involved with TechTV and G4 since 2001, and their departure, like Rose's, was greeted with distress by the shows fans.
Olivia Munn was hired to replace Lane and began hosting on Monday, April 10, 2006. Zach Selwyn, the runner up on ESPN's Dream Job, was hired to replace Moran and started his hosting duties a week later on April 17, 2006. Wil O'Neal, a CNET senior editor who was one of the hosting candidates following Rose's departure, appeared on the show semi-regularly as a technology correspondent until 2007, when O'Neal departed from the show under suspicious circumstances, and was replaced by Chris Hardwick, former host of Singled Out and currently a writer for Wired magazine. Kevin Pereira is now the sole remaining host from the AOTS launch in 2005.
Hosts
Contributors
- Zach Selwyn
- Blair Butler
- Anna David
- Chris Gore
- Kristin Holt
- Chris Hardwick
- Kristen Rutherford
- Joel Gourdin
- Alison Haislip
Former hosts
Guest hosts
- Blair Butler
- Zach Selwyn
- Jessica Rose
- Rachel Specter
- Layla Kayleigh
- Adam Sessler
- Morgan Webb
- Jay Chandrasekhar
- Michael Weaver
- Bijou Phillips
- Kristin Holt
- Anna David
- Alex Albrecht
- Seanbaby
Segments
| Title | Synopsis |
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| Attack This! (formerly The List) | A daily showcase of various things that the G4TV hosts recommend the viewers to buy, download etc. Presented by Olivia Munn |
| Around the Net | A daily profile of websites featuring the top five online videos with unique or bizarre idiosyncrasies. An additional video with more adult content under the title ATN After Hours is shown during the 10pm and 3:30am repeats. |
| DVDuesday | Chris Gore’s reviews and picks for DVD releases and rates them as: buy, rent, or pass. Shown each Tuesday. |
| The Feed | Pop culture and technology news delivered in blurbs, presented by Layla Kayleigh, Kristin Holt or Alison Haislip. Also the branding of the program's news ticker. |
| Fresh Ink! | Blair Butler reviews upcoming comic book titles and rates them as: buy, browse, or burn. She also visits comic conventions. |
| Gadget Pr0n (formerly AOTS Hardware) | Contributing host Chris Hardwick joins Kevin to review and showcase the latest gadgets and gear. |
| User Created | Viewers send in videos they made doing different stuff requested by the host. |
| In Your Pants | Sex columnist Anna David and Olivia Munn give intimate relationship advice and opinions. After the segment, Kevin Pereira makes a joked sexist statement followed by a rooster crowing and the quote "Cock-a-doodle-doo! BITCHES!" Occasionally, this segment is filmed in New York, where David is usually based out of. |
| The Loop | A daily forum hosted by Kevin Pereira featuring different opinions on the latest tech related news usually with one to three guests appearing live via satellite. |
| Olivia's Rack | Olivia showcases new magazines and their content. |
| Video Viewer Mail | Viewers send in videos of themselves, asking questions, giving opinions, etc. Olivia and Kevin usually introduce it by saying something along the lines of "Let's talk to you guys over in the army of monitor heads." |
| BREAK! Moments in De-Evolution | Kevin and Olivia review several online videos from BREAK.com of people doing ridiculous stunts, which usually end in bodily harm and/or property damage. Each video is rated on a scale of 1 to 5, with a different satirical value for each segment (e.g. "Out-of-control tire fires", "Rolling meth labs" or "Gun-totin' grannies"). |
| Epic Fail | Usually the last segment of the show, Kevin and Olivia single out one online video in particular that has poor content, a contrived setting, or people who are clearly trying too hard. The term is derived from the Epic Fail meme perpetuated. |
| Virtual Audience | Kevin and Olivia talk with viewers via webcams about various topics. |
| WTF?! | Kevin discusses strange things on the web. |
| What's up with Japan? | Kevin talks about the strange occurrences within Japan, from tech to popular culture. |
| Its F***ing Science! | Kevin or Olivia explain a science experiment, usually with a satirical effect. |
International broadcasting
In Australia, the program has experienced a short but turbulent broadcast schedule. In September, 2006 long-time broadcaster of the show, HOW TO Channel in Australia stopped airing the program after the format no longer suited the channel's D.I.Y. format. However, in November 2007 Fuel TV began airing the program. The program also films special episodes outside of the states; during certain times of the year it will travel to settings like Japan, Comic-Con, or Amsterdam and Jamaica for 4/20.
Attack of the Show is also available in Canada on G4techTV.
References
External links
- Attack of the Show! official website
- Official MySpace of Attack of the Show!
- Former The Screen Savers website
