''MuchOnDemand'' (also called MOD) is an hour-long per broadcast viewer interactive

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aired on

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, Monday through Friday at 5pm ET. It was broadcast live from 299 Queen Street West in

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. ''The Best of MuchOnDemand'', aired Sundays at 10am ET, highlighting the best moments on the show from the past week. ''MuchOnDemand'' acted as MuchMusic's flagship show in a similar manner as

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's U.S. music video countdown show ''

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''.

History

''MuchOnDemand'' first aired with VJ host Rick Campanelli, mainly with a format where people can request videos. When it changed its format in 2002, it added Jennifer Hollett as co-host. Since its debut, the show has been hosted by several other personalities, including Amanda Walsh (who replaced Jennifer Hollett), Sarah Taylor and Devon Soltendieck and Matte Babel and Leah Miller since 2004. In 2006, Tim Deegan began co-hosting regularly. The usual hosts until the show's end were Sarah Taylor, Devon Soltendieck, Jesse Giddings, Tim Deegan and Liz Trinnear. Leah Miller, host on the show, had her last day on Monday, August 31, 2009, where she left ''MuchOnDemand'' to move to

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and become regular host of '' So You Think You Can Dance Canada''. June 18, 2010, the Friday prior to the

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, was apparently the last day for ''MuchOnDemand'' to be aired, since no mention was ever made on the show that the show was going away. In MOD's time slot come Monday was simply an hour of music videos, there was no post-MMVA coverage, and ''MuchOnDemand'' had vanished.

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had apparently started some massive renovations to the 299 Queen Street West building, rumoured to equip CTV/Much with HD capabilities, which prevented all VJ-hosted show, including ''VideoFlow'' and ''MuchNews'', from being produced, and that the studio would be ready to go again in December. These renovations also changed the face of CTV's entertainment newsmagazine, etalk, as their studio was a close neighbour to the Much studio. But while ''etalk'' lost their studio too, they were able to relocate their on-air locale to their newsroom, as the whole Queen Street building is wired as an on-air studio. On August 23, 2010, Sarah Taylor confirmed via her Twitter account that ''MuchOnDemand'' was not coming back and that a "new show is on way". On December 13, 2010, '' New.Music.Live.'', the successor to MOD, premiered at its regular timeslot.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Muchondemand 1997 Canadian television series debuts 2010 Canadian television series endings Much (TV channel) original programming Television shows filmed in Toronto 1990s Canadian music television series 2000s Canadian music television series 2010s Canadian music television series