Video on Trial

This is the best show from the best era of Much Music. Video on Trial was such a simple show where they would have comedians watch and make fun of music videos but it was fantastic! First of all it had something Much Music was lacking and doesn't even really have at all any more and that is MUSIC VIDEOS. So you got to see them but not just that there would be great riffs going on through the videos. If they were funny they would make you laugh and if they were not funny they were over so fast it didn't really matter and then you at home could riff about how bad the riffing was, and make your own riffs about the music videos. This is one of my fave shows from back then and it was fun growing up watching it, my sister and I loved it and basically scheduled our lives around when this show was on so we could watch it and make a game out of it. Love and miss this show. Still very angry when they got rid of the good judges then really angry when they changed the format and basically flushed the toilet down the show for no reason but whatever it was amazing while it lasted! And in the words of Ron Sparks "Shawn Desmond Sucks!" haha.

This is the best show Much Music ever made and it is not even close. They used to make some other good shows too but this one is the one that had us tune in to watch it twice a week with that time memorized as "Video on Trial Time"... we would meet at a place, usually mine, and have to watch it and laugh our heads off. Ron Sparks, Debra DiGiovanni, Boomer Phillips, these people should have a statue in front of that building. Best Much Music show ever and one of the best Canadian shows ever hands down, nothing on Much Music competes with it today and that just makes me sad. All hail Video on Trial.

I absolutely love watching Video on Trial because it's so horribly truthful! This is definitely one of the best shows actually on Much Music, because it will make you laugh so hard you cry! My dream episode or if I could have these people on every episode, they would be Trevor Boris, Debra DiGiovanni, Ron Sparks and the ever sexy Fraser Young! These four are the best at making artists look like asses!

For anyone who has never seen the show before, or even heard of it, the basic concept is 5 videos are show and commented on by the jury members, who are mostly comedians, or random people, like from bands or people in the general music industry. Then they give their verdict of the video, and at the very end of the show, all the videos are sentenced. For example: Jesse McCarthy was sentenced to putting "may cause drowsiness" labels on all future records.

Truly a Canadian Show that all should watch! In fact, I sentence you to watch Video on Trial and laugh madly!

I really miss this show! Much Music was the best it has ever been when new episodes of this show were on every week. They had hilarious hosts like Ron Sparks and Debora Digiovanni and then they just stopped the show, why? All it was was music videos with these people in front of a black curtain making comments about them. It must have cost like five bucks to make and the hosts especially Ron were always saying how cheap it was! It was very simple but also very funny with great lines making fun of the music videos, the songs, the artists. They even joked about the show like I said, and each other too. It was hilarious so I don't know why they ever stopped making this thing. Great while it lasted though. Now Much Music is a joke with no good music and all the shows that are supposed to be funny are just awful with terrible hosts. It's a mystery to me.

I love Video on Trial. I was thinking of giving up on Much Music when this show came out and I'm glad it did because it made Much Music worth watching again. It's great to watch the judges take the videos down, even if the videos aren't any good it doesn't matter because the judges cutting them are are so funny.

The best regular judges are Ron Sparks, Dave Kerr, Debra Digiovanni, Trevor Boris, Frasier Young, Alex Nussbaum and a few others. My favourites are Ron Sparks, Dave Kerr and Debra Digiovanni, any episode with one of them in it is guaranteed to be hilarious because their comments are always funny but they also know about the videos they are talking about. The spinoffs for this show usually use the best judges too so they are always great, such as the Christmas Specials, the 1980's music videos and Stars on Trial.

I hope they keep making new episodes since the one downer about this show is the reruns get overplayed way too much and sometimes they have bad judges. Still Video on Trial has to be the best show ever on Much Music.