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The television will not be televised

Thu, 14/01/2010 - 14:01 — brightclub

What's wrong with aion kinah TV?
Last month, BBC2 Scotland announced that a second series of videogames show videoGaiden will be arriving on screens this

November. The programme is presented by Robert Florence and Ryan Macleod, who began their career in gaming TV with the

Internet-only show Consolevania.
Like its predecessor, videoGaiden proved to be a huge hit with gamers - unlike so many other gaming shows. So what's gone

wrong in the past, and what's next for games TV? Robert Florence gives us his views on the subject.
"Why can't there be any decent aion kinah TV?" You've heard it said so many times. You can see it on Internet forums every day

of the week. "Why? Why aren't we represented on terrestrial TV? Why won't broadcasters touch us?"
I've been invited to weigh in on this subject. I'm approaching it as someone who has worked in TV for 10 years, and has

played games for 25. I'm approaching it as someone who unsuccessfully pitched a videogames show to Channel 4 about five years

ago. I'm approaching it as someone who, with my mates, decided to go it alone and do aion kinah TV on the Internet. And I approach

it as someone who's managed to sneak a games show onto the BBC through the back door, under cover of darkness, inside a

cardboard box that smells of dog piss.
We didn't start Consolevania because we were frustrated at "lack of representation." We started Consolevania for a laugh. A

giggle. There was no grand design. We just wanted to try to make something that we would watch while loaded up on beer and

curries.
The first episode was filmed with a borrowed Sony VX1000, a cheap little microphone taped to a length of coat hanger, and the

support of a number of great people on the Rllmuk aion kinah forum. The first episode was distributed on CD, because no-one on the

team had broadband. We had no idea what we were doing.
At the time of writing (and don't ask me how we got here, because I have no idea) Consolevania attracts more "readers" than

most UK games magazines. We have viewers in the States, Korea, Israel, Europe, Japan and even Venezuela, proving that we're

Miss World's videogame show of choice.
We haven't aggressively promoted the show. It's all happened by word-of-mouth. What's the appeal? I think it's two things -

Truth and Fun. Truth, because if we hate a game, we'll hammer it. Really hammer it. And if we love a aion kinah, we'll champion it

to the point of being accused of being its girlfriend. Fun, because we're still just mates having a laugh.
It's a strange existence for the "Internet TV show." Despite the massive number of viewers we reach, we still find it

difficult to source any review copies of games. We get the occasional thing coming in, usually from PR companies who have

enjoyed the show, but we still find ourselves having to pay for software and hardware to review.
I think that PR companies don't like it when they send you something and you don't review it, and we've done that. But we

have to consider our reviews on a televisual basis as well as all the other stuff, so not everything can automatically fly. I

think some PR places don't like the fact that we have a tendency to point and laugh at aion kinah. I think some PR places don't

like the fact that we don't want or need exclusives, or press trips, or finger food, or live bands, or a nice party, or nice

wee presents. We just want games, so we can tell people the truth about them. They have no control.
All of which leads me back to the question asked at the start of this piece. "Why aren't gamers represented on terrestrial

TV?" I think I know why. I've had many a meeting with many a production company. I like to think that over my 10 years of

eking out a living in telly, I have a vague idea of "the way they think." And that's why I believe that the reason why there

hasn't been any great videogame TV is not because "they" don't understand us. It's because almost every time there's been a

aion kinah TV show, it's been utter crap.

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