Midway through 2008, Lab Rats was acquired by Tucows as the flagship show for the fledgling division. Sean moved to Vancouver to work on The Lab With Leo Laporte, and some episodes were shot there. Andy's cats Biff and Boo wouldn't stay off the set, so they were made an official part of the show. Along the way Lab Rats moved from the couch to the living room, and from Andy's apartment to his condo. And so Lab Rats kept coming, once a week nearly every week, since that fateful day in late 2005. People liked the show and downloaded it furiously.in fact, it became one of the most popular tech podcasts on the Net. Things started to look a lot better.and then the deluge happened. Shortly thereafter, Sony Canada kindly chipped in a couple of loaner cameras, and Andy's pal Geo Perdis offered lighting help and gear. The first episode was shot between periods of a Bruins game (they lost), but Lab Rats was summarily born. Harris said he'd help ONLY if he didn't have to miss watching the Bruins.
So they begged Call For Help's associate producer Matt Harris for some assistance. There were shadows, bad audio and a bad couch.
It was really hard, but after a month or so of messing about, they managed to shoot a pilot episode. Initially Andy and Sean figured it couldn't be that hard to make TV for the web. That meant not worrying about having to fit a ton of content into the tiny window between TV commercial breaks instead, the content was given the room it needed to breathe.and to help it to be clear and understandable.
Originally launched as an offshoot of the work Sean and Andy were doing for G4TechTV Canada's Call For Help, Lab Rats has always been designed to harness the power and possibilities available on the Net. Lab Rats was one of the very first video podcasts on the Internet, launched in October 2005 by technology journalists Sean Carruthers and Andy Walker ).
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