Elias Poutanen
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Elias Poutanen was a host/computer-game critic who has worked for a magazine and for a number of related television programmes. Though officially a Finnish citizen he was born in Australia
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He started out as the replacement for Thomas Puha who previously hosted the programme called Play on MoonTV
. The name of the show was changed to Player during this transition. He became noted by some fans as the channel's cute nerd. He remained the official host for all console-gaming involved shows until MoonTV's cancellation in the early summer of 2003.
After MoonTV's demise Poutanen appeared only abruptly on television though resurfaced as a critic on the show Play on Nelonen
, hosted by former MoonTV personnel Thomas Puha and Miika Huttunen
. Towards the end of the show's run in 2005 Poutanen ended up replacing the show's female hosts who became either sick or unavailable for other reasons. Throughout its second season Play's ratings were not promising and as the show's cancellation became evident Poutanen was made its permanent host for the remaining last episodes.
On the final episode he interviewed Jarno Sarkula
, another former MoonTV host and game-critic.
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
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He started out as the replacement for Thomas Puha who previously hosted the programme called Play on MoonTV
MoonTV
MoonTV was a free Finnish cable network channel. It started off as a channel for programmes about computer and video games but later grew into a channel covering several areas of youth culture. In its prime it was the first interactive TV channel in the world. At its best MoonTV could reach 1.3...
. The name of the show was changed to Player during this transition. He became noted by some fans as the channel's cute nerd. He remained the official host for all console-gaming involved shows until MoonTV's cancellation in the early summer of 2003.
After MoonTV's demise Poutanen appeared only abruptly on television though resurfaced as a critic on the show Play on Nelonen
Nelonen
Nelonen is a Finnish commercial TV channel. It started out as Helsinki's local television channel PTV in 1989 on the HTV cable network, which name was changed first to PTV4 and then to Nelonen. It started on June 1, 1997. Nelonen, in Finnish, means the glyph of the number four. The channel is...
, hosted by former MoonTV personnel Thomas Puha and Miika Huttunen
Miika Huttunen
Miika Huttunen is a permanent staff-member and resident critic for the Finnish gaming magazine Pelaaja. Prior to this he was a host of certain game-related television-programmes primarily on the now defunct MoonTV cable-channel...
. Towards the end of the show's run in 2005 Poutanen ended up replacing the show's female hosts who became either sick or unavailable for other reasons. Throughout its second season Play's ratings were not promising and as the show's cancellation became evident Poutanen was made its permanent host for the remaining last episodes.
On the final episode he interviewed Jarno Sarkula
Jarno Sarkula
Jarno Sarkula is a Finnish musician and one-time TV-personality. In the music-business he is known as a member of the underground-band Alamaailman Vasarat, he also became known as a TV-persona on the free cable-channel MoonTV...
, another former MoonTV host and game-critic.