''Life on Venus Ave.'' was a Canadian television series, which aired on

MuchMusic Much (an abbreviation for its full name MuchMusic) is a Canadian English language specialty channel owned by BCE Inc. through its Bell Media subsidiary that airs programming aimed at teenagers and young adults. MuchMusic launched on August 31 ...

and

Citytv Citytv is a Canadian television network owned by the Rogers Sports & Media subsidiary of Rogers Communications. The licence of the original Citytv station, granted the callsign of CITY-TV by the CRTC on November 25, 1971 to Cable Television Ass ...

in the 1990s. Hosted by

Ziggy Lorenc Isabelle Anna "Ziggy" Lorenc (pronounced like "Lawrence", ) is a Canadian television and radio personality as well as occasional actress in film and television, best known for hosting programming on the CHUM Limited-owned television stations Citytv ...

, the series mixed informational and comedic segments on

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and

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with

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music videos. The series premiered in 1991, as an updated version of Lorenc's earlier romantic video series ''MushMusic''. The series concept was that Lorenc was actually an extraterrestrial being from the planet

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, and was learning about human concepts of love and sexuality. The series was dropped from MuchMusic in 1994 when Lorenc left that network, but continued on Citytv until 1996. Lorenc subsequently published the memoir ''Life on Venus Ave. (and other true confessions of a wash 'n' wear virgin)'' in 1997."Ziggy zany persona not made for the page Interviewer's perky character has made her a focal point for people who loathe TV, though she deserves better. But this book won't change many minds.". ''

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'', December 20, 1997. One of the show's writers, Rod Gonsalves-Quesnel, went on to write a fashion column for ''

''.

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