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Call for HelpFirst Aired in 1998 Call for Help is a show that helps you understand technology - "how to choose it, use it, abuse it, and eventually lose it". This one hour show is designed to help viewers, from the hardcore to the novice, get the most out of their technology and keep up-to-date on the latest tech news, products, and trends. Call for Help centers around answers to viewer calls, but also includes fun tech tidbits, updates on the latest fashions (and threats) in technology as well as product reviews. The show often features visits from experts in the various aspects of tech. Regular guests include Pixelcorp's Alex Lindsay, security expert Steve Gibson, Photoshop wizard Greg Danbrooke, and more recently professional animator Mike Hogue, and digital photographer Mikkel Aaland. Two of the show's own staff members, Mike Lazazzera and Sean Carruthers, also make regular on-screen contributions to the show. Host Leo Laporte has remarked that the show has now become a lot like the original Screensavers, which longtime TechTV fans remember fondly. Call For Help originally began in May 1998. Cancelled six years later, in May 2004, following the TechTV/G4 merger (considered by purists to be "the end of TechTV"), viewer response led to the show being resurrected in August 2004 by G4TechTV Canada. Former host Laporte was happy to return to the new show, to be joined by new co-hosts Andy Walker and Monica Litonjua (Litonjua soon left the show and was succeeded by web expert Amber MacArthur). Since its return, well over 250 original episodes have been broadcast. The show is now filmed in Toronto, and initially only aired in Canada, but in February of 2005 returned to screens in Australia. Fans of the show were shocked when, on the 31st of August, 2005, co-host Walker announced he was leaving the show due to a proposed contract renewal that would see him earning "substantially less" than in his first year at the show. He was not replaced by a new co-host, and the show has continued on with one less on the team. The show is however now seeing more callers and guest appearances. Also in August, American fans, who had been crying out for over a year to see the show back, finally had their patience rewarded when the program returned to G4 in the US. G4 proceeded to air a batch of approximately 60 episodes over the proceeding months, albeit at less-than-glamorous early morning time slots, before once again pulling the plug on the show at the end of 2005. The show has continued into 2006 in both Canada and Australia however. "Remember, if you have a problem with your personal confuser, don't whine, don't moan, don't yelp... Just Call for Help!" If you see any mistakes on this page or if you have more infomation about this show, please submit a comment |