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{{Short description|Canadian lifestyle newsmagazine}}
{{distinguish|Living It Up! With Ali & Jack}}
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'''''Live It Up!''''' is a Canadian lifestyle, entertainment and consumer awareness television program that aired nationally on [[CTV Television Network|CTV]] from 1978 to 1990. Reruns of the show aired on [[MTV (Canadian TV channel)|talktv]] until January 2005.

The program's hosts included [[Jack McGaw]],<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=XplVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=LkANAAAAIBAJ&pg=1092,50719&dq=live-it-up+mcgaw&hl=en|title=Mcgaw Uses Humor In Show On Safety|date=16 May 1983|work=Leader-Post|page=A10|accessdate=18 July 2012}}</ref> [[Alan Edmonds]],<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ZdpTAAAAIBAJ&sjid=nIkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3413,4592649&dq=live-it-up+edmonds&hl=en|title=What Bugs You? The Live It Up Van Wants To Know!!!|date=2 July 1980|work=Val d'Or Star|page=10|accessdate=18 July 2012}}</ref> [[Mary Lou Finlay]],<ref name="Finlay2009">{{cite book|last=Finlay|first=Mary Lou|title=The As It Happens Files: Radio That May Contain Nuts|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RFMBDTpfFcIC&pg=PA282|access-date=18 July 2012|date=2009-10-27|publisher=Random House Digital, Inc.|isbn=9780307396631|page=282}}</ref> [[Liz Grogan]],<ref name=Mordan>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=S3ZkAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1H4NAAAAIBAJ&pg=5281,1598671&dq=live-it-up+edmonds&hl=en|title=Live It Up! is guide to the good life|last=Mordan|first=Andrew|date=23 July 1982|work=Calgary Herald|accessdate=18 July 2012}}</ref> [[Dianne Buckner]] and Sharon Seto.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/access/471984841.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jun+01%2C+1990&author=Antonia+Zerbisias+TORONTO+STAR&pub=Toronto+Star&desc=Live+It+Up+in+danger+as+CTV+drops+news+for+drama&pqatl=google|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130131154409/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/access/471984841.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jun+01,+1990&author=Antonia+Zerbisias+TORONTO+STAR&pub=Toronto+Star&desc=Live+It+Up+in+danger+as+CTV+drops+news+for+drama&pqatl=google|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 31, 2013|title=Live It Up in danger as CTV drops news for drama|last=Zerbisias|first=Antonia|date=1 June 1990|work=Toronto Star|pages=D.16|accessdate=18 July 2012}}</ref>   ''Live It Up!'' featured a mix of serious consumer-affairs topics and lighter consumer topics, mostly delivered in a tongue-in-cheek style.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-112088514.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160325181955/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-112088514.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=25 March 2016|title=A look inside business|date=1 November 2003|work=Northern Ontario Business|publisher=Laurentian Business Publishing|accessdate=18 July 2012}}</ref> Regular segments included the Watchdog (played by [[Ron Carlyle]], a man whose face is never shown while testing different brands of a product),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ron-carlyle-the-man-who-could-answer-almost-any-question/article536245/|title=Ron Carlyle: The man who could answer (almost) any question|last=Ferrier MacKay|first=Susan|date=21 March 2012|work=[[The Globe and Mail]]|accessdate=18 July 2012}}</ref> "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),<ref name="Mordan" /> "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)<ref name="KenterLevin2000">{{cite book|last1=Kenter|first1=Peter|last2=Levin|first2=Martin|title=TV North: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Canadian Television|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hQ8bAQAAIAAJ|access-date=18 July 2012|date=2000-10-01|publisher=Whitecap|isbn=9781552851463|page=97}}</ref> and "The Great Canadian Joke-Off" (a nationwide search to find the funniest joke in Canada, with each segment ending with an annoyed monkey). Segments were mainly filmed at first, but moved permanently to videotape in 1987.