The Electric Playground

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The Electric Playground is a TV show focused on video games. It is written and directed by Victor Lucas and Glen Lougheed, produced by Greedy Productions (Lucas' production company), and features reviews, strategies, hints, and interviews with people in the video game industry. The cast and correspondents include Lucas, Tommy Tallarico, Julie Stoffer, Geoff Keighley, and Jade Raymond.

The show has aired on The Science Channel and G4 in the United States and on Space: The Imagination Station, A Channel, and G4techTV in Canada.

The show currently airs on G4techTV Canada. A website launched to promote the show quickly became its own self-contained entity featuring exclusive content only available on the website.

In 2002, the reviews segment of the show, Reviews on the Run, was spun off into its own show. It was known as Judgment Day in the United States and Reviews on the Run in Canada. Because of the changing format of G4, the owners of the show decided not to renew their contract with G4 Media to continue producing Reviews on the Run in the US guise, Judgment Day. The final airing of Judgment Day on G4 was in early January 2006.

On December 31, 2006, Lucas announced on the The Electric Playground forums that Greedy Productions had cancelled its contract with CHUM television, which broadcast Electric Playground and Reviews on the Run on SPACE and A-Channel, and signed a two year exclusive deal with Rogers Communications, to broadcast the shows on G4techTV Canada and then additionally on other Rogers owned TV stations. [1] This has drawn a negative response from some viewers as the CHUM stations were available on normal cable packages and locally broadcast in some areas, while G4techTV Canada is only available on digital cable.

[edit] External links

• The Electric Playground official website
• G4tv.com: The Electric Playground
• The Electric Playground at the Internet Movie Database