The Screen Savers
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The Screen Savers is a live American television program, shown on the G4techTV (formerly TechTV) cable channel, which premiered along with the channel (originally known as ZDTV) on May 11, 1998. The original hosts were Leo Laporte and Kate Botello. Recently G4 has revamped the show. They laid off all former "on air" TechTV crew except for Sarah Lane and Kevin Rose.
The Screen Savers is best described as a computer/technology variety show, which presents computer industry and technology related news, product demonstrations, software clinics, and interviews with notable people, usually with some levity. Like a talk radio show, the hosts take phone calls from viewers as well.
The show was originally based in San Francisco, but TechTV's merger with G4 led to it being moved to Los Angeles. The first Los Angeles-based episode was on September 72004.
Show revamp
On November 11, 2004, Kevin Rose, Sarah Lane, and Alex Albrecht announced on their sites that G4 had decided to revamp The Screen Savers. Alex Albrecht, Yoshi DeHerrera, Dan Huard, and a majority of long-time producers of the show were officially terminated. New episodes of the revamped show began November 29, 2004.
On November 23, 2004, Kevin Rose annouced on his site that he and Sarah Lane would return to content creation as two new hosts, Kevin Pereira, and Chi-Lan Lieu take over hosting duties.
Hosts
The current lineup of The Screen Savers is:
- Kevin Pereira
- Chi-Lan Lieu
Former hosts include:
- Kevin Rose: Kevin's stint as co-host began when original host Leo Laporte left the show. He is best known for his "Dark Tips", information for the budding hacker.
- Sarah Lane
- Alex Albrecht (joined TSS on the first episode from Los Angeles; last episode November 10, 2004)
- Yoshi DeHerrera (Yoshi was the show's modding guru, his last episode was on November 10, 2004)
- Dan Huard (last episode November 10, 2004)
- Leo Laporte (left April 1, 2004, now on KFI AM 640 radio; previously on Call For Help, and now hosts Call for Help 2.0)
- Patrick Norton (married)
- Jessica Corbin (now seen hosting Love's a Trip, a reality TV show on Style)
- Morgan Webb (now seen on X-Play)
- Cat Schwartz (formerly seen on Call For Help)
- Megan Morrone (left to have a baby, now works for Microsoft)
- Martin Sargent (left for his own show Unscrewed with Martin Sargent, his last episode on The Screen Savers was May 23, 2003)
- Kate Botello
