The Screen Savers

The Screen Savers
Directed byChris Strand
Starring
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of episodes1,483
Production
Executive producers
  • Paul Block (2001–2004)
  • Jim Downs (2004)
Producers
  • Ken Marquis
  • Joshua Brentano
Running time
  • 90 minutes (2001–2002)
  • 60 minutes (1998–2001; 2002–2005)
Original release
Network
ReleaseMay 11, 1998 (1998-05-11) 
March 18, 2005 (2005-03-18)
Related
Tekzilla

The Screen Savers is an American TV show that aired on TechTV from 1998 to 2005. The show launched concurrently with the channel ZDTV (later known as TechTV) on May 11, 1998. The Screen Savers originally centered on computers, new technologies, and their adaptations in the world. However, after it was taken over by G4, the show became more general-interest oriented and focused somewhat less on technology. The final episode of The Screen Savers aired on March 18, 2005. Repeat episodes continued to air until March 25, 2005, when its replacement program Attack of the Show! began three days later on March 28, 2005. Two spiritual successors to The Screen Savers, This Week in Tech on the TWiT Network with Leo Laporte and Tekzilla on Revision3 with Patrick Norton, were started after the original show concluded. On April 19, 2015, Leo Laporte announced The New Screen Savers, which began airing on TWiT network May 2, 2015.