G4 Coverage of SDCC
Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2011 6:13 pm
Having not gone to SDCC this year (again) I was watching coverage of it on the G4 network and it was atrocious.
On a 4 hour block they probably devoted 40-60 minutes to coverage of comics and that's being generous. Coverage of SDCC on G4 was a mix of tv, celebs, movies & games. What G4 seemed to care most about was doing interviews with as many celebs from tv shows, movies & reality tv as possible. At one point they were interviewing the guys from Mythbusters, while cool NOT COMIC RELATED. And yes, I know SDCC is more of a pop-culture gathering but goodness sake, can we pleas get some comic coverage.
Whenever the show would break for commercial or come back from commercial, they'd do a 60 second sweep of the floor and flash to come cosplayers or comic booths. I was hoping to see some in depth interviews with indie publishers like Archaia, Oni, Image, instead we got drive-by interviews so they could get back to interviewing the cast of True Blood.
G4=laaaaaaaaaame
On a 4 hour block they probably devoted 40-60 minutes to coverage of comics and that's being generous. Coverage of SDCC on G4 was a mix of tv, celebs, movies & games. What G4 seemed to care most about was doing interviews with as many celebs from tv shows, movies & reality tv as possible. At one point they were interviewing the guys from Mythbusters, while cool NOT COMIC RELATED. And yes, I know SDCC is more of a pop-culture gathering but goodness sake, can we pleas get some comic coverage.
Whenever the show would break for commercial or come back from commercial, they'd do a 60 second sweep of the floor and flash to come cosplayers or comic booths. I was hoping to see some in depth interviews with indie publishers like Archaia, Oni, Image, instead we got drive-by interviews so they could get back to interviewing the cast of True Blood.
G4=laaaaaaaaaame