MTV is fast-tracking a revival of Total Request Live aka TRL, the long-running music video countdown show first hosted by Carson Daly.
The original series, first launched as Total Request in 1997 with host Carson Daly, was officially branded as TRL in the fall of 1998.
Daly stepped down as host in 2003, to be replaced by a revolving door of VJs including Damien Fahey and One Tree Hill‘s Hilarie Burton.
In a new interview with The New York Times, MTV president Chris McCarthy reveals that the new TRL will premiere in October (yes, as in less than three months from now!), with construction on a new Times Square studio currently underway.