Through a partnership withARIA[36] MTV began broadcastingMTV's Official Motorola ARIA Chart Show which shows the current top 20 chart, music news, interviews and reviews.[37]
MTV's The Lair made its premiere on 26 January 2007, and is aired live every Thursday at the Metro Theatre inSydney.[38] The show features established and un-signedAustralian and international bands.
During Spring 2005 MTV Australia featured a range of surf related programming that had been produced the previous summer. The shows had commercial ties with theBillabong surf brand. Included in the lineup wasSurf Shorts, a show featuring participants in the Jack McCoy Surf Film Festival, andGirls Get Out There, anedutainment program on female surfers.
This was MTV Australia's flagship request show, started in 1996 and adopted from the formula used on MTV Asia. In subsequent years the show also used the same visuals as the Asian version. It was originally hosted by Yvette Duncan, the onlyVJ on the station at the time.Most Wanted ran weekdays for around two hours each day and was hosted from either a studio set or live location such as music stores. The show was replaced with TRL Australia in 2005.
Shortly after the UK and Ireland version of MTV developed its own version of the AmericanTRL, plans began for an AustralianTRL. At first the show was weekly, broadcasting live on Fridays and running alongsideMTV Most Wanted.TRL Australia uses the same logo asTRL UK. Shows were produced on a large cruise yacht, dubbed the "MTV Cruiser", which floated aroundSydney Harbour, containing the audience, performing bands and VJs. Australian bandKilling Heidi were the first to perform on the show.
LaterTRL Australia became a daily show, with the Monday – Thursday slots being broadcast from a small boxed set atGlobal Television Studios inSydney. Shows from the MTV Cruiser are produced on Fridays and are titledTRL Weekend. Both the weekly and weekend editions ofTRL Australia feature prominent local and overseas celebrities, often during tours ofAustralia. They closely follow the formula of the originalTRL.
During 2006 production onTRL Australia ceased without any announcement and as of May 2007 has not recommenced. It was replaced on-air withFull Tank andThe Lair.
Shown in 2005, featuring local VJs spending time with a musical celebrity. The show uses a "day in the life of" format, including candid interviews and footage. Most of the shows feature the VJ in the United States.
TheFull Tank crew hits the roads of Australia in search of the exciting, the kinky, the glamorous and the downright weird. They are discovering all the festivals, concerts, events, comps and parties that makes Australia unique.
Some shows are collaborated by MTV Australia, such asThe Rock Chart andScrambled Megs. These shows are not hosted by MTV VJs. Occasionally MTV Australia produces special shows such as VJ Hunts and summersurf specials. In the past MTV Australia has also been involved in novel original programming such asDigital Lili, a live phone-in show featuring a computer generated host. The show aired in Australia and Asia.
