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Legendary started to scale back their digital division after "Joshua Grode took over as the company’s CEO in 2018". The Twitch channel reached its peak subscriber count at 55,349 in February 2018. Season 4 of Wheaton's Tabletop was exclusive to Alpha in 2016 before premiering on YouTube in 2017. This included actual play shows such as Sagas of Sundry, miniature painting with Painter's Guild and game master chat shows such as Roundtable. įrom 2017 onwards, the network increasingly focused on tabletop gaming shows. In July, Marisha Ray became the Creative Director. In January 2017, it was announced that Thomas Tull, Legendary's founder, had exited as Legendary Entertainment CEO and that Eric Campbell, a writer on Geek & Sundry shows such as The Flog, Felicia’s Ark and Signal Boost!, would become the Director of Development for Geek & Sundry. When I realized I had given as much as I could, I needed to move on". Day said "I gave it my heart and my soul. In 2016, Felica Day left Geek & Sundry after growing "fatigued in a less creative, more managerial role in the company". In 2016, Critical Role's spinoff show Talks Machina premiered on Geek & Sundry's Twitch channel in January 2017, Talks Machina: After Dark premiered on Alpha and included 15–20 minutes of extra cast questions pulled from Alpha viewers.

In June 2016, Legendary Digital Networks (LDN) announced a new subscription streaming service, Alpha, which would include programming from both Nerdist and Geek & Sundry. On YouTube, where it got its start, it has 1.4 million subscribers". In April 2016, "Geek & Sundry's website had 290,000 uniques, per comScore. On January 11, 2016, Chinese conglomerate Wanda Group announced that it concluded an agreement with shareholders to acquire Legendary Entertainment for $3.5 billion. After Day heard about a private Dungeons & Dragons home game from Ashley Johnson, she approached the group about playing it in a live-streamed format for Geek & Sundry Critical Role began airing on March 12, 2015, however, the show remained creator-owned. In March 2015, Geek & Sundry launched their Twitch channel with a 48-hour stream in support of The Lupus Foundation. Marisha Ray, creative director during the network's Twitch subscription peak in early 2018. In December 2014, Geek & Sundry was listed on New Media Rockstars Top 100 Channels, ranked at #68. In August 2014, Geek & Sundry was acquired by Legendary Entertainment for an undisclosed sum. Two programs, Tabletop and Space Janitors, were renewed for season 2 of the channel starting April 1, 2013. In March 2013, the channel announced three new series: Felicia's Ark (featuring Felicia Day), Fetch Quest (created by Jordan Allen-Dutton) and The Player One. Before the channel launch, YouTube gave an advance payment "against future advertising revenue to jumpstart production." The channel's founders and show hosts attended a number of fan conventions over the following years including ComicCon, Dragon*Con, VidCon, and WonderCon. The channel was originally based around three unscripted programs produced by Day: The Flog (hosted by Day), Sword & Laser (hosted by Veronica Belmont and Tom Merritt) and Tabletop (hosted by actor Wil Wheaton).

The company "hasn't exactly been operational" since late 2019. In the wake of their departure, Alpha was shut down and Geek & Sundry went into decline. In early 2019, Critical Role Productions separated from Legendary, as well as Geek & Sundry, to distribute their content independently. Geek & Sundry produced many shows exclusively for Legendary's streaming service, Alpha, from its launch in 2017. The company is primarily known for their launch of the D&D show Critical Role, which aired on their channels from 2015–19. In June 2012, Forbes suggested that "if successful, it could help blaze a trail for the future of network television." In 2014, Geek & Sundry was acquired by Legendary Entertainment. It was launched on Apby actress Felicia Day with Kim Evey and Sheri Bryant as part of YouTube's 100 million dollar original channel initiative. Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.Geek & Sundry is a commercial YouTube and Twitch channel and multimedia production company. "Call to Adventure" "Day of Chaos" "Easy Lemon" "Mischief Maker" "Super Power Cool Dude" Kevin MacLeod () Go to the Don’t Stop Thinking website to get more information on future episodes. Comment and share your top 5 non-D&D Tabletop RPGs. It's an eclectic collection, and in no way is it exhaustive.