This could be a big deal, merely interesting, or not turn out to be anything at all, but Comcast (who own G4) are apparently close to buying NBC and all of its networks, which include NBC, USA, Syfy, CNBC, MSNBC, Bravo, Hulu and even the freaking Weather Channel.
If you want to look at it extremely positively, this could open up possibilities for the G4 hosts to appear on other shows regularly. I don't expect to see Haislip doing the Weather on the 8's, but I think the Today Show is like 17 hours long now, so surely they've got time for a tech segment.
On the other hand, Comcast are also the company that "merged" TechTV and G4 and have left us with basically 2 shows on their whole network to watch. I imagine there could even be more layoffs after this merger too.
And then there's Munn. My own thoughts are exactly the same as this, but I don't want to plagiarize, so this is cut and pasted from @LostCluster on the G4 forums:
"AOTS is small fries in comparison. Olivia's a actress who already is stretching beyond G4. NBC+Comcast may let her out of her contract and cut back her appearances on AOTS so she can be on an NBC show. (See also: Joel McHale)"
There is a good thread on this topic at the G4 forum as well for further reading:
http://forums.g4tv.com/showthread.php?t=135983
So, predictions anyone? Another TechTV/G4 massive shake-up, or will this amount to as much as the Y2K bug?
- Dollhouse (R.I.P.)
