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Alpha origins; Felicia leaving Geek and Sundry |
Geek & Sundry was a commercial YouTube and Twitch channel and multimedia production company launched on April 2, 2012 by actress Felicia Day with Kim Evey and Sheri Bryant, which later was bought by Legendary Entertainment and merged into Chris Hardwick's Nerdist channel, another subsidiary of Legendary.[1]
In November 2016, Legendary launched its subscription service Project Alpha, which featured original programming from the company’s Nerdist and Geek & Sundry teams, including Critical Role's. Alpha shut down effective March 31, 2019, and some of its content moved to Geek & Sundry’s Twitch channel.[2]
In June 2018, Critical Role moved to its own studios and their split from Geek & Sundry was complete as of February 2019.[3]
Geek & Sundry's last independent show, Lost Odyssey: The Book of Knowledge, aired in late 2019. With the rise of Covid-19 and global lockdowns in 2020, Geek & Sundry as a tabletop games-centered channel faced social distancing guidelines and took a сompelled and indefinite hiatus.[4] In January 2022, the Geek and Sundry website started to redirect to nerdist.com.
Critical Role[]
In 2015, Felicia Day invited the original cast of Critical Role to stream their campaign live on the Geek & Sundry Twitch channel, with the first episode being broadcast live on March 12, 2015.[5] In 2016, Talks Machina premiered on Geek & Sundry's Twitch channel.
Critical Role aired on the Geek & Sundry channel until February 2019 when the show moved to Critical Role's independent production company, Critical Role Productions LLC. All previous episodes were archived on the Geek & Sundry website and their YouTube channel until December 2019, when "Labenda Awaits" (2x20) through "Xhorhas" (2x51) were moved to Critical Role's channel.
External Links[]
- Geek & Sundry Website (defunct)
- Geek & Sundry Youtube channel
- Geek & Sundry on Twitch
- Geek & Sundry Fan Wiki (inactive)
- Geek and Sundry 10 years later by Felicia Day
References[]
- ↑ Geek & Sundry on Wikipedia
- ↑ An article in Variety discussed the closure.
- ↑ Geek & Sundry on Wikipedia
- ↑ "The History of International Tabletop Day"
- ↑ See "WATCH C2E2: The Critical Role Cast Shares Their Origin Story" at 0:04:27.
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