Live It Up! (TV program)
Canadian lifestyle newsmagazine
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Live It Up! is a Canadian lifestyle, entertainment and consumer awareness television program that aired nationally on CTV from 1978 to 1990. Reruns of the show aired on talktv until January 2005.
- Jack McGaw
- Alan Edmonds
- Mary Lou Finlay
- Liz Grogan
- Dianne Buckner
- Sharon Seto
1990
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| Country of origin | Canada |
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| Network | CTV |
| Release | 1978 – 1990 |
The program's hosts included Jack McGaw,[1] Alan Edmonds,[2] Mary Lou Finlay,[3] Liz Grogan,[4] Dianne Buckner and Sharon Seto.[5] Live It Up! featured a mix of serious consumer-affairs topics and lighter consumer topics, mostly delivered in a tongue-in-cheek style.[6] Segments were mainly filmed at first, but moved permanently to videotape in 1987.
Regular segments included the Watchdog (played by Ron Carlyle, a man whose face is never shown while testing different brands of a product),[7] "What bugs you?" (concerned consumers talk about problems with household products, and those involved in those products explain why those problems occur and/or mentions how they are improving them; segments began and end with a person (Miss Judy) in a bug costume flying around, saying "What bugs you?" in a high-pitched voice),[4] "The Legal Beagle" with lawyer, Jonathan Rudin explaining unusual Canadian laws in humorous sketches performed by the Live It Up Players (notably Tracie Tighe and Art Szoczi)[8] and "The Great Canadian Joke-Off", a nationwide search to find the funniest joke in Canada, with each segment ending with an annoyed monkey.
