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MTV Pulls the Plug on Flagship ‘TRL’ Show
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by Jarrett Martineau | September 16, 2008 at 09:29 am
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MTV is saying goodbye to Total Request Live, its flagship daily series that has dominated music television airwaves for a solid decade.
But times have changed and, these days, artists are getting a bigger boost from YouTube than from MTV, so the cancellation of TRL was a programming inevitability.
Will you miss it? What's next for MTV?
After ten years on the air, the show that thrust Carson Daly upon us will go off the air in November — considering ratings peaked in 1999, it's remarkable that they've waited this long to let the ol' girl go. But what of all the artists who have benefited from TRL's platform? "In a statement, Eminem said: 'I'm going to miss TRL … Where else will I be able to start feuds, defend my honor vigorously and act like an angry teenager on national TV? Oh wait … The VMAs!'"
MTV is to drop its flagship US show Total Request Live in November after 10 years on the air.
Executive producer Dave Sirulnick said he wanted to "rest" the show, which comes live from New York's Times Square, after a two-hour special.
"We want to close this era of TRL in a celebratory way, and 10 is a great number," he said.
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at 10:46 on September 16th, 2008
Jarrett Martineau, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 11:08 on September 17th, 2008
NEW YORK - APRIL 29: (U.S. TABS OUT) Musician Hilary Duff appears onstage during MTV's Total Request Live at the MTV Times Square Studios on April 29, 2008 in New York City. (Photo by Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images).
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at 18:29 on September 20th, 2008
nothing much to say, I was shooting on the TRL set. Mariah was the guest, the audience was crazy and Mariah was her usual crowd pleasing self.
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