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<blockquote data-quote="Villano" data-source="post: 1859421" data-attributes="member: 505">Unscrewed was an acquired taste, I admit.&nbsp; There were some parts of it even I couldn't stand (like Joey the Intern).&nbsp; Still, no one deserves to be forced to move to keep their job only to be canned 2 months later.Unscrewed actually reminded me of that series that Sci-Fi had when it debuted.&nbsp; What was that called?&nbsp; The host was a &quot;professor&quot; or &quot;doctor&quot; (I don't know if he actually was or not) and he did stories on aliens living at the center of the Earth and things like that.&nbsp; Unscrewed and that show cover the same topics (albeit, Unscrewed doesn't take them seriously).Plus, Unscrewed introduced some pretty funny new segments recently:&nbsp; Laura Swisher's Dear Blog and the Mysteries Of Science...Explained!The Mysteries segment was the best.&nbsp; It was set up like one of those old '50s school science films that MST3K liked to air on their show.&nbsp; There was one episode in which the question was something like &quot;What causes rainbows?&quot; or &quot;Why is the sky blue?&quot;, and the scientist concluded that modern science will never be able to answer that question.&nbsp;&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> BTW, does anyone know where to find ratings for all these shows?&nbsp; I've only been able to find sites that list the top few shows or list rating for entire networks.The official line at G4 is that they cancelled all the TechTV shows due to low ratings.&nbsp; However, people have also said that the TechTV shows are the highest rated on the network.&nbsp; Obviously, the &quot;low ratings&quot; thing is just G4's excuse.&nbsp; They never had any intention of keeping the shows once they acquired the network.&nbsp; I just want to see what the real numbers are.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Villano, post: 1859421, member: 505"] Unscrewed was an acquired taste, I admit. There were some parts of it even I couldn't stand (like Joey the Intern). Still, no one deserves to be forced to move to keep their job only to be canned 2 months later. Unscrewed actually reminded me of that series that Sci-Fi had when it debuted. What was that called? The host was a "professor" or "doctor" (I don't know if he actually was or not) and he did stories on aliens living at the center of the Earth and things like that. Unscrewed and that show cover the same topics (albeit, Unscrewed doesn't take them seriously). Plus, Unscrewed introduced some pretty funny new segments recently: Laura Swisher's Dear Blog and the Mysteries Of Science...Explained! The Mysteries segment was the best. It was set up like one of those old '50s school science films that MST3K liked to air on their show. There was one episode in which the question was something like "What causes rainbows?" or "Why is the sky blue?", and the scientist concluded that modern science will never be able to answer that question. :) BTW, does anyone know where to find ratings for all these shows? I've only been able to find sites that list the top few shows or list rating for entire networks. The official line at G4 is that they cancelled all the TechTV shows due to low ratings. However, people have also said that the TechTV shows are the highest rated on the network. Obviously, the "low ratings" thing is just G4's excuse. They never had any intention of keeping the shows once they acquired the network. I just want to see what the real numbers are. [/QUOTE]

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