Woot!! Great news to pass along to fans of music videos, trivia and 90′s nostalgia … VH1 has announced that they are bringing back the superfun TV show Pop-Up Video. Those of you who remember the show may recall that VH1 would air music videos of the day (from Spice Girls, Mandy Moore, No Doubt, etc.) along with fun little trivia facts that would pop-up at appropriate times during the song. After being off the air for 10 years, the time is RIPE for Pop-Up Video to make it’s long-awaited return!

After a 10-year hiatus, VH1 is resurrecting Pop Up Videos with co-creator Woody Thompson on board as executive producer. The network has ordered 60 half-hour episodes set to bow as a strip in the fall. The reboot will remain faithful to the original concept of bubbles of true “info nuggets” strategically deployed over music videos for maximum irony. But this time Thompson and his team will also pop-up rap and hip-hop, a genre that was off limits for the original because it was the domain of sister network MTV. Of course, since the series premiered in 1996, social networking and Twitter have opened the floodgates on snarky commentary. “I have sat on the sidelines for the last decade and watched as everyone and the brother has ripped off Pop Up in some way or another with the internet coming out of nowhere and Twitter being hauntingly familiar and all of these devices that are using snarky, pithy text,” said Thompson. Perhaps inevitably, VH1 will also introduce interactive elements, including polling and user-generated pop-up content. “Our audience has a particular nostalgia for Pop Up Videos, but they’re also seeking more information on multiple platforms,” said Jeff Olde, VH1’s executive vp original programming and production. “They’re [using social networking] to create their own pop-ups in a way. So we can hit the nostalgia beat but also have it feel like it’s relevant and current.”

For those of you who are not familiar with the show (or would just like a reminder), here is the Pop-Up Video version of the Rick Astley video for Never Gonna Give You Up:

OMG … I love this show so much. I have to tell you … I’ve known about the return of Pop-Up Video for a while now. A new friend named Nicole is working on the show … she is one of the people responsible for coming up with the fun trivia facts that will pop-up in the videos. I cannot WAIT to see this show again. There are a lot of great music videos out now (not to mention the ones that came out in the past 10 years that Pop-Up was off the air) that are will be GREAT for Pop-Up Video. Altho I’m a bit creeped out by the fact that we are now enjoying 90′s nostalgia, I am excited that fun shows like this are making a come-back. You may recall that we learned back in March that MTV is bringing back the alternative music show 120 Minutes so that coupled with the return of Pop-Up Video means … people may actually watch music videos again. Any Pop-Up Video fans out there? Which videos that you remember are your faves? Which new videos do you think will make great additions for the show now?

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