Kevin Pereira
Acting
Biography
Kevin Pereira is an American television host, comedian, producer, and entrepreneur, best known for co-hosting the technology and pop culture program Attack of the Show! on G4 from 2005 to 2012. Born Kevin Elder Pereira on December 28, 1982, in San Leandro, California, and raised in Antioch, he developed an early interest in media, launching a gaming and internet culture-focused radio show called Pointless Audio at age 14 under the pseudonym Captain Immy, which featured prank calls and was syndicated on gaming websites. After studying film and television production at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco on a scholarship, Pereira worked as a network administrator at an internet service provider and in television production before breaking into on-air hosting. Pereira joined G4 as a co-host on The Screen Savers in late 2004, transitioning to the newly created Attack of the Show!, where he served as co-host with Olivia Munn and others, producing over 1,500 hours of live content focused on gadgets, gaming, and digital culture. He also hosted or co-hosted other G4 programs like Arena and Large Dangerous Rocket Ships, establishing himself as a key figure in the network's early success before its 2012 cancellation. Following G4's initial shutdown, Pereira expanded into game shows, hosting Let's Ask America on Game Show Network from 2015 to 2016, and hosted Hack My Life on truTV from 2015 to 2018. As a stand-up comedian and writer, Pereira has performed live and incorporated humor into his hosting style, often drawing on pop culture and technology themes. In 2021, he returned to the revived G4 network, reprising roles on Attack of the Show! and other segments alongside Adam Sessler until the network's closure on November 9, 2022. More recently, Pereira co-founded the AI-driven game platform And Then in 2025 with producer Gavin Purcell, focusing on interactive audio experiences for gaming and entertainment. He continues to produce podcasts like Pointless with Kevin Pereira, discussing innovation, entrepreneurship, and digital media.
Known For
Xbox almost didn't happen. Find out why in this behind-the-scenes, six-part series that takes you back to the scrappy beginnings of Microsoft's video game console. It's the untold story of the people behind the box, glitches and all.
Power On: The Story of Xbox
An anthology feature film that puts a uniquely dark and original spin on some of the most iconic and beloved holidays of all time by challenging our folklore, traditions and assumptions.
Holidays
Set in the early 1980s, Code Monkeys follows the adventures of fictional video game company GameAVision.
Code Monkeys
Arena was a G4/G4techTV TV show about competitive gaming which aired from 2002 to 2004. The program's format featured teams taking on each other in the multiplayer video games of the time in the form of a LAN party. Many episodes of the series revolved around a continuing tournament format. Some video games overlap episodes, such as Unreal Tournament 2004 and Call of Duty. Teams are also given a chance to talk about themselves and explain the origin of their team name. Team ZoMBiE won the Tournament of Champions in 2004 to become the Ultimate Arena Champions. Team Kaizen won the Tournament of Champions in 2005 to become the Ultimate Arena Champions. The show was originally hosted by Wil Wheaton and Travis Oates, but both hosts left due to conflicts with the program's producer, Jim Downs, of which many were made public by Wheaton in a Slashdot posting. They were replaced by Lee Reherman and Michael Louden. The final hosts were Reherman and Kevin Pereira. The first two seasons were filmed in studio 2. In 2004, for the shows' third and final season, filming moved into studio 3, which was the largest studio in G4's old headquarters. When word of the TechTV buyout became public, and the show was going to be cancelled as a result, the series banked several episodes, and then scrapped the set in July 2004 to make way for X-Play, The Screen Savers, and Unscrewed with Martin Sargent, three former TechTV properties.
Arena
Attack of the Show! is an American live television program that formerly aired weeknights on G4, G4 Canada Fuel TV, HOW TO Channel, and Maxxx. Episodes were hosted by Kevin Pereira, Olivia Munn, Zach Selwyn, Layla Kayleigh, Sarah Lane, Alison Haislip, Candace Bailey, and Sara Underwood. Attack of the Show! reviewed new technological items, parodies, pop culture, and general daily news, and gave previews of video games, movies, and digital media.
Attack of the Show!
Taking everyday items and using them to make your life easier.
Hack My Life
Before the rise of big tech, social media and Marvel movies, Attack of the Show! chronicled the rise of nerd culture. G4TV's flagship show launched the careers of hosts Olivia Munn and Kevin Pereira and was beloved by fans! But what really happened?
Attack of the Doc!
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The Pulse
The Screen Savers is an American TV show that aired on TechTV. The show launched concurrently with the channel ZDTV on May 11, 1998. The Screen Savers originally centered around 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 3 days later on March 28, 2005. Two spiritual successors to the Screen Savers are in the form of This Week in Tech on the TWiT Network with Leo Laporte and Tekzilla on Revision3 with Patrick Norton.
The Screen Savers
Teams of people invent new technology for a chance to win $1 million.
America's Greatest Makers
Free Stuff was a television program on the G4 network. In this show "featured products" ranging in value from $20.00 to $599.00 are previewed and then given away. Viewers enter to win the items by using their computer to submit codes which are shown to the viewers by Lloyd the Chimp during commercial breaks. Viewers must enter each code within 3 minutes.The names of the products' winners are announced at the end of the show. The show aired throughout the month of June 2007 at 6:30 and 10:00 PM EDT/PDT and officially ended on June 29, 2007. Free Stuff is hosted by Morgan Webb and Kevin Pereira. Blair Butler, Wil O'Neal and Joel Gourdin also appear sometimes to help show off the gadgets and gear. Zach Selwyn is a street reporter and travels the streets of LA giving away new gadgets to random people on the street, usually for doing something Zach finds amusing.
Free Stuff
Join your host Ron Funches and your favorite G4 all-stars as they look back at all your favorite moments in a mostly-heartfelt reunion that eventually goes off the rails and wraps up the legacy of the original network with a bow while opening the door to the new G4 adventures to come.
A Very Special G4 Holiday Reunion Special
While Killzone 2 (and 3s) servers will officially shut down at the end of March 2018; its legend as a technological achievement in console FPS games will live on forever. As a bit of a retrospect, here we dive in DEEP into the nostalgia and break down Killzone 2 from its inception.