A month after suffering a number of key layoffs and departures, the ill-fated attempt to reboot the 2000s gaming channel G4 TV is over, with its owners announcing that they’ll be shutting the network down.
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As Deadline reports, an email was sent to remaining staff today by David Scott, the CEO of parent company Spectator, a division of Comcast. In this memo Scott “explained that the company’s investment and efforts to revive the network just didn’t gain traction.”
Deadline also says “a few dozen employees and contract workers are affected by the shutdown”. That was all that left at the network after a round of “major layoffs” took place last month:
Despite assurances in a subsequent broadcast that “there were no plans to scale back the channel’s programming”, Xplay host Indiana “Froskurinn” Black and Attack of the Show! co-host Kevin Pereira also left shortly afterwards.
“This has been in motion for a long while,” Pereira said of his departure. “I know there’s been some whacky events in the ether as of late but months and months and months back this time was sort of decided. The show’s going dark for two weeks and coming back. I won’t be here. Sorry.”
Scott’s full email, obtained by Deadline, reads:
The memo, unsurprisingly given its timing (sent on a Sunday evening), could have been handled better:
