It is a wonderful feeling to read these comments about my/our work. I can tell you that EP was never created without any other intention than honouring the videogame industry and the passion that we all share for it. I created the show expressly because I honestly LOVE video games and I have since I first picked up an Atari 2600 in the early 80's. I thought games were neglected on television and I wanted to change that.
I also want to clarify that EP and ROTR were never cancelled. We had a deal with a Canadian broadcaster that wasn't renewed in 2016 but it was my decision to not proceed with the risk of producing a television series again at the end of 2015 (there were partner stations that wanted us to continue under a split advertising model). I own EP and ROTR and all of the programming created under the EPN banner. The expense to go forward with more TV production and a big team was just too great and I didn't want to spend all of my time worrying about advertising. I make content. So instead I chose to finance the production of content for our YouTube/Facebook/Twitch/DailyMotion channels and to start to understand the new opportunities of delivering video content through these platforms.
In 2016 I did start to have conversations with potential TV and VOD distribution partners but very few people in the television industry right now are focused on this kind of content and I grew tired of waiting for answers, so at the beginning of 2017 I made the decision to just proceed with what we are building now and to solicit some partnerships to help us grow where we are. I've decided not to spend money on marketing and PR at this stage and instead we just focus on building fun content and continue to accumulate viewers through word of mouth. I've also partnered with Johnny Millennium from the Happy Console Gamer on a new movie review channel (in the vein of Reviews on the Run) called Film Fury.
Now things are starting to grow and get interesting with our current distribution base and you'll start to see EP content in lots of cool new places; Like the Arms interview we did at Nintendo that's been playing before movies this month in Cineplex theatres across Canada.
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What we need more than anything if you like our type of content--which isn't created out a need for clickbait or to cultivate needless controversy--is for you to support us by viewing lots of our videos, commenting, giving us thumbs up for the stuff that you like (and thumbs down and comments on stuff we can do better) and hitting that subscribe button so you can check us out regularly. We post new stuff every day. We also post a ton of our classic stuff (you can watch season 1 & 2 of EP on our channel right now!) and I'm trying to develop a cool gameplan around getting you ALL of our previous material. We need viewers to grow all of that though. So please WATCH, COMMENT, SHARE and SUB.
I can assure you that EP was built for the right reasons. We created 25 seasons of television programming and kept full creative control and now I want to show folks that there is a richer, deeper, more inclusionary way to talk about everything cool every single day with our internet-based programming. I love this industry and what we've built too much to stop now.
YouTube.com/EPNtv
YouTube.com/FilmFury
Thank you and all the best!
- Vic
