Here's the good news: MTV's rancid tart-pop show Total Request Live is going on an indefinite hiatus. Here's the bad news: MTV's rancid tart-pop show Total Request Live is going on indefinite hiatus.
Why not make it a permanent vacation? I'm begging you, MTV.
See, MTV used to mean something. It once broke shows like The Young Ones, Liquid Television, Ren and Stimpy, 120 Minutes and more, which is to say killer programming. That includes some shows about actual music from actual bands, rather than ex-Mouseketeers who lip-sync better than they sing. But from the postmodern nightmare of The Real World to Total Request Live, MTV spent the end of the 90s ruining its network's good name. It spent the '00s killing off what was left of it.
Now, according to the Associated Press, it's ready, at last, to close the book on TRL.
this audio or video is no longer availableThe show spent ten years cycling the worst of pop music into daily rotation. And while you'd think that a decade in the biz would confer some legitimacy onto the show, you'd be wrong: Its Nielsen score actually peaked in 1999, after a mere year on the air.
In other words, it has been downhill ever since, with no one possessing the stones to fully pull the plug.
But that worm has finally turned. Now if MTV can only destroy what's left of its programming roster, it can start over and hopefully recapture its former glory. That would make for scintillating television.
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