VJ Search

VJ Search is the title of a reality television program aired on Canadian music video TV station MuchMusic. A new series is created every few years and the main point is to find a new MuchMusic VJ to join the current list of MuchMusic personalities.

2006 marked the first year that the VJ Search embarked on a reality series format, consisting of ten episodes over a ten-week period. The show was extended 10 episodes. In previous years, the VJ Search took place over a 2-day period, broadcast live on MuchMusic beginning Saturday afternoon and completing on Sunday evening, when a new VJ was crowned. Previous winners include Bradford How (2000) and Devon Soltendieck (2004).

The program documents a team called the VJ Search Team made up of VJs (Matte Babel, Leah Miller, Devon Soltendieck and Sarah Taylor). The team goes on a cross-Canada tour - the VJ Search Team visits 23 cities and make 32 stops from coast to coast - where VJ applicants demonstrate their talent in front of a camera and assembled crowd in shopping malls, university and college campuses .

After decision making by judges, 10 applicants were chosen to participate in the show, filmed in a luxury penthouse in Toronto. Throughout the duration of the program, a process of elimination singles out applicants by their talent. By the end of the 10 episodes, only one person became a MuchMusic VJ. The winner of the 2006 series was Tim Deegan.

VJ Search is hosted by Dina Pugliese.

VJ 2.0 was the series in 2009 to pick a new VJ for the station. After hundreds of application, 16 were chosen for the show. The series ran in October and November 2009 and sponsored by Doritos.

The Top 16 were:

Hakeem, Palmer, Trinnear and Walker made to the Final Four and the series 2.0 was won by Liz Trinnear who was signed as a VJ for the station.

The "Much VJ Search" reality show returned on April 1, 2013. 20 VJ hopefuls started in Vancouver and travelled across Canada on the Much Bus with eliminations happening in each stop.

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