BadBoy's Choice

BadBoy's Choice was the a hit MuchMusic variety show featuring the character BadBoy, who as host would operate a giant spinning wheel that would give directions on what music to play. The wheel would select several options including "take it up," "take it down," "BadBoy's choice," or "crowd's choice." The show was defined as a "showcase of dance and popular music with fun tropical energy" by MuchMusic marketing at the time and each broadcast would have BadBoy on stage with a crowd below him dancing to the selection of music. Typically each show would either take place at MuchMusic headquarters at 299 Queen Street West in downtown Toronto, or on the beaches of Lake Ontario. While the show would mainly host DJs, sometimes it would host live musical acts such as Len or Kardinal Offishall, with Len's "Steal My Sunshine" being the show's opening theme song for 1999 and Kardinal Offishall's "BaKardi Slang" the opening theme in 2000. The show would be cancelled after the tragic death of Rick DeSanto who was killed shooting a promo inside Tower 1 on 9/11.

Premise
The show would consist of the BadBoy character spinning a large arrow upon a multicoloured wheel that had indicators for what music would be played next depending on where the arrow landed. If the arrow pointed up, BadBoy would "Take u up," and the DJ would start playing more euphoric or uplifting music. When the arrow would be pointing down, BadBoy would "Take u down and chill u out" with the music becoming to be more chill or relaxed. If the arrow would be pointing away from BadBoy, it would be "Crowd's Choice" with the DJ playing a selection of audience-requested favourites that would be written in prior to the event. And finally if the arrow pointed towards BadBoy, it would be "BadBoy's Choice" with the character of BadBoy picking from one of his favourites to play next.

Current status
The majority of the master tapes of the show were held in a warehouse in the Concord neighbourhood and were destroyed in the MuchMusic Video Archive Fire in 2005. Although several clips recorded on VHS have surfaced on YouTube over the years, the majority of the series is considered lost.