The Sauce (TV series)
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| The Sauce | |
|---|---|
| Format | LIVE |
| Starring | Steven Smith, Jared Cotter |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| Language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Location(s) | New York, NY |
| Running time | 60 min. |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Fuse TV |
| Original run | April 2, 2007 – May 22, 2008 |
| External links | |
| [The Sauce : Fuse TV.com Official website] | |
The Sauce is a daily live interactive show on Fuse TV. "It's known for anyone whose life is rooted in (but not limited to) music". It airs weekdays at 6PM EST/3PM PST.
The show includes music, movies, and entertainment as well as technology, apparel, and sports. The host and guests interact with the home audience daily by way of live webcamm, instant messenger, instant polls via the web, and mobile devices.
[edit] The Show
The hour-long LIVE show first aired April 2, 2007, and is hosted by Steven Smith of Steven's Untitled Rock Show and Jared Cotter. The set-up of the show is an entertainment talk show based in music. The Sauce begins with a segment called "Things you missed" which covers topical news of the day. Most of the topics covered involve music, movies and television. Chevelle, Avril Lavigne, Taking Back Sunday, Maroon 5, Bayside, Paramore, Evanescence, and others have appeared on the show. Other segments include, "Comic Book Club", "Reel Numbers", "Show Us Your Hits", "Weathering The Tour", and "New Releases" in DVD, video games and music. Guests featured on the show to date include Hilary Swank, 50 Cent, Debbie Harry, Slash, Eva Mendes, Billy Bob Thornton, The Used, Paramore, Justin Long, Kevin Bacon, Fall Out Boy, Jessica Alba, and many more. A list of guests are available on the official website. The Sauce also features live performances from bands like Kelly Clarkson, Wyclef Jean, Fall Out Boy, OneRepublic, Evanescence, Maroon 5, Jimmy Eat World, Korn and many more.
Also at the official website, fuse.tv/thesauce, people can vote in polls during commercial breaks. People can chat online with the guests and hosts, as well as choose videos, artists, or anything else. The live audience is chosen from those who email the website.
The show ends with next day's upcoming topics, and then a music video.
On May 22nd, 2008, the hosts announced that the show was at its end. It included a special edition of "Things You Missed" called "Things We'll Miss". Steven and Jared would not be leaving the network, they assured. In a tribute to his hometown Pittsburgh head writer Joel Solomon waved a terrible towel as they went off the air.
